Secondary and Cumulative Impacts Master Management Plan - 2014

Article 5: Development Standards Section 5.8. Access and Circulation 5.8.8. Pedestrian Access and Circulation

vacant land that is zoned to allow such single-family attached, multifamily, nonresidential, and mixed-use development. b. The Planning Director, in conjunction with the Town Engineer, may waive or modify the requirement for bicycle 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), or would create unsafe conditions.. c. Easements allowing cross-access to and from properties served by a bicycle 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. D. Bikeway Design Standards All bike lanes and bike paths shall be designed and constructed in accordance with standards in the Engineering Design and Construction Manual. General Pedestrian Access a. All new development except an individual single-family detached, duplex, or manufactured home dwelling on an existing lot shall be served by a system of pedestrian walkways (including sidewalks, pedestrian paths, and/or trails) that permits safe, convenient, efficient, and orderly movement of pedestrians among the following origin and destination points within the development: (1) The primary entrance(s) of principal buildings (or the buildable area of lots, for subdivisions); (2) Off-street parking bays (including any parking serving on-site transit stations or facilities); b. The development internal pedestrian circulation system shall also provide safe, convenient, efficient, and orderly movement of pedestrians between the development‘s internal pedestrian origin and destination points and adjoining parts of an existing or planned external, community-wide pedestrian circulation system as well as any adjoining transit stations, bus stops and shelters, public parks, greenways, schools, community centers, and shopping areas. Sidewalks Required 346 a. All new single-family attached, multifamily, nonresidential, and mixed-use developments shall install sidewalks along both sides of roadways proposed within the development site and along the entire frontage of the development site with an existing street (unless an existing sidewalk meeting Town standards is already in place). b. Such sidewalks shall be provided within the right-of-way of the street unless the Planning Director determines that location within the right-of-way is not practicable—in which case, the 345 This subsection expands the general provision in Part C, Art. XIV, Sec. 3.7.A, 4.9.A, and 5.9.A requiring nonresidential development to have sidewalks between streets, parking areas, and buildings to provide safe, direct, and convenient access. 346 This carries forward the sidewalk requirements in Sec. 5.4.2.4 of the current Design and Construction Ordinance. It adds the provisions allowing flexibility if the right-of-way is insufficient to provide a sidewalk and referencing adopted pedestrian plans. 2. 5.8.8. Pedestrian Access and Circulation A. Required Pedestrian Access 345 1. (3) Any designated or planned bus stops and shelters; and (4) Recreation facilities and other common use area and amenities.

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