All driveways, parking areas, curbs, and bumper guards shall be constructed in accordance with standards established by the City Engineer and the following:
(a) Paving. All parking and loading areas and access drives, with the exception of driveways accessing single-family detached dwellings, shall be bituminous, concrete or a similar hard surface approved by the City Engineer. Such paving material and base materials related thereto, shall be capable of supporting all anticipated loads without damage. The owner shall, at his/her own expense, maintain the surface in a smooth and dust-free condition and repair any disintegration of the surface by patching or sealing when such disintegration takes place.
(b) Drainage. Parking areas shall be graded, drained and provided with adequate drainage facilities so that adjacent properties and rights-of-way, including public sidewalks, shall not be subject to flooding by run-off water from the proposed parking area.
(c) Illumination in Open Areas. Parking areas shall be illuminated whenever necessary to protect the public safety. Light sources shall be designed and located in compliance with the regulations set forth in Chapter 1157, General Use Regulations.
(d) Curbs and Wheel/Bumper Guards. Appropriate bumper guards or barrier curbs shall be provided in order to define parking spaces, access drives or limits of paved areas, contain the cars on sloping surfaces, and to prevent bumper overhang or other encroachment into required yards, walkways, aisles or spaces.
(e) Marking. Any off-street parking area for five (5) or more parking spaces shall indicate the location of each parking space, the location of spaces for persons with disabilities, and the location and direction or movement along the aisles and access drives providing access thereto by painting upon the surface, by raised directional signs, or by markers or other similar measures placed in the surface.
(g) Maintenance. A parking area or loading space shall be maintained in a manner to keep it as free as practicable from rubbish, paper and other loose particles, and snow and ice shall be promptly removed by the operator. All adjacent sidewalks shall be kept free from dirt, ice, sleet and snow and in a safe condition for use by pedestrians. All signs, markers or any other methods used to indicate direction of traffic movement and location of parking and/or loading spaces shall be maintained in a neat and legible condition. Any walls, trees and shrubbery, as well as surfacing of the parking lot, shall be maintained in good condition throughout its use for parking purposes.
(h) Storage. All off-street parking areas for nonresidential uses shall not be used for the continuous storage of a vehicle for more than 48 hours, except where expressly permitted in this Planning and Zoning Code as accessory to the principal use of the lot.
(i) Driveways. In the R-1 and the R-2 zoning districts, common driveways, that is driveways which provide access to more than one dwelling unit, may be permitted pursuant to the following:
(1) In a conservation development proposed pursuant to Chapter 1143 and in a single-family attached dwelling development in the R-2 zoning district, the length of such common driveway shall not exceed 200 hundred feet from its point of intersection with the public/private street, and it shall not serve more than four (4) dwelling units. The common driveway shall be constructed in accordance with the construction standards for public streets set forth for in Title Five, Subdivision Regulations.
(2) In all other instances, common driveways shall provide access to no more than two (2) dwelling units.
(Ord. 2006-35. Passed 5-25-06.)