No parcel or lot shall be allowed to construct, maintain or have a vehicular access to a collector or arterial street unless a permit have been applied for and approved by the city, county or state jurisdiction having control over the street or highway, and all such accesses shall comply with all applicable regulations including but not limited to the following.
(A) Nonresidential and multi-family residential uses, except agricultural uses.
(1) All vehicular accesses shall be subject to site plan approval by the City Council in accordance with the city’s Site Planning Code. All new vehicular accesses shall align with existing accesses on the opposite site of the street to the extent practical if they comply with the separation requirements herein, unless this requirement is waived by the City Engineer and the City Council approves a site plan with the nonalignment.
(2) Vehicular accesses to city arterial and collector streets shall be located a minimum of 300 feet from all street intersections and other vehicular accesses as measured centerline to centerline, and may be restricted to only right-turn movements if the separation from centerline to centerline is less than 600 feet; provided that a lesser distance may be allowed due to parcel sizes and access locations in existence prior to January 1, 2009, or if the City Engineer determines that less separation is appropriate.
(3) Vehicular accesses onto local city streets shall be located 100 feet or more from all street intersections and other vehicular accesses, subject to the same provisions applicable to arterial and collector streets that allow the separation distance to be reduced in special circumstances.
(B) Residential uses. Single-family attached and detached residential parcels shall not have direct access to city arterial streets except in the “A-1” Agricultural Reserve and “A-2” Estate Residential Districts where no other streets are reasonably available to provide access and the location of the access has expressly been approved in writing by the City Engineer, or within subdivision plats approved by the City Council where accesses to such streets have expressly been shown and approved by the City Engineer and City Council.
(C) Agricultural uses.
(1) Access shall be allowed to agricultural parcels to the extent necessary to allow access by agricultural equipment and vehicles to such parcels for planting, cultivation, harvesting and other agricultural activities, and to access farm residences and agricultural buildings, provided that the location of such access shall be reviewed and approved by the City Engineer only after determining that such access will not obstruct drainage or create traffic hazards that could be avoided with a different access location. Such agricultural accesses shall be deemed temporary accesses and shall expire and be removed upon the cessation of the agricultural uses for which they were approved.
(2) The City Engineer shall have the sole authority to establish the classification of a street as an arterial, collector or local street for the purpose of this section.
(3) The provisions of this section shall be deemed minimum requirements, and the approval of any access may be subjected to any and all additional conditions that the City Engineer and City Council find to be necessary to protect the public health, safety and welfare, and such approval may be revoked if revocation is found necessary to ensure such protection.