Secondary and Cumulative Impacts Master Management Plan - 2014

Article 5: Development Standards Section 5.8. Access and Circulation 5.8.6. Vehicular Access and Circulation

Figure 5.8.6.D.5: Cross-access between parking areas of adjoining developments.

b. Required vehicular cross access between the adjoining lots shall be provided through the use of a frontage or service street (if the lots front on a major thoroughfare right-of-way), a single two-way driveway or drive aisle, or two one-way driveways or aisles that are sufficiently wide to accommodate traffic by automobiles, service vehicles, loading vehicles, and emergency vehicles. c. The Planning Director, in conjunction with the Town Engineer, may waive or modify the requirement for vehicular cross access on determining that such cross access is impractical or undesirable because it would require crossing a significant physical barrier or environmentally sensitive area (e.g., railroad, watercourse, floodplain, wetlands, steep slopes), or would create unsafe conditions. d. Easements allowing cross access to and from properties served by a vehicular cross-access, along with agreements defining maintenance responsibilities of property owners, shall be recorded with the Register of Deeds for the county in which the properties are located before issuance of a Building Permit for the development. E. Vehicular Access Management 335 Purpose The purpose of the access management standards in this subsection is to control vehicular access to developments from adjacent streets in a way that preserves the safe and efficient flow of the traffic on the streets while providing property owners a right to reasonable access to a general system of streets and highways. Specifically, the standards are intended to limit the number of traffic conflicts, separate basic conflict areas, separate turning volumes from through movements, and maintain progressive speeds along thoroughfares. 1. a. Limitation on Direct Driveway Access Along Thoroughfares Direct driveway access to a development‘s principal origin or destination points (including individual lots in a subdivision) may be provided directly from a major or minor thoroughfare only if: (1) No alternative direct vehicular access from a lower-classified accessway (e.g., collector street, local street, alley, or driveway) is available or feasible to provide; 336 2. Driveway Intersections

335 This carries forward the driveway access limits in Sec. 5.3.4 of the current Design and Construction Ordinance, with modifications as noted in the following footnotes.

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Unified Development Ordinance - Public Hearing Draft