Chapter 16.26 OFF-STREET PARKING AND VEHICLE ACCESS STANDARDS
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)