Section 16.26.250 Businesses requiring automobile access.

    Businesses requiring motor vehicle access shall meet the following requirements:
    A.    Access to the structure or parking lot shall be by not more than two (2) access strips for each one hundred (100) feet or fraction thereof of frontage on any street, providing that no two (2) access strips shall be closer to each other than twenty (20) feet; each of the access strips shall not be more than thirty-four (34) feet in width and shall not be closer than twenty (20) feet or greater where required by the Planning Commission to the point of intersection of two (2) property lines or at any street corner; and a curb, hedge or fence of not more than two (2) feet in height shall be provided by the owner to limit access to the permitted access strip.
    B.    Commercial and industrial sites desiring access widths larger than thirty-four (34) feet may apply to the Planning Commission for the larger accesses.  The applicant shall submit to the Planning Commission;
        1.    Written documentation explaining the reasons for the larger access applications;
        2.    A traffic plan drawn to scale showing;
            a.    Widths of all adjacent public streets;
            b.    Traffic flow pattern of deliveries;
            c.    Schedule of deliveries;
            d.    Lengths and widths of trucks that will be making deliveries.
    C.    The Planning Commission shall make its decision based on the following criteria:
        1.    The width of the roadway;
        2.    Traffic flow of large vehicles through the site;
        3.    Truck size and frequency of deliveries.
    D.    Gasoline pumps shall be set back at least twenty (20) feet from any property line bordering a street; provided, that a pump island parallel to and adjoining a street may be located not less than fifteen (15) feet from the property line bordering the street. (PZSC § 03-12-019)

(Ord. No. 96-27, Amended, 11/20/96)