The maximum width permitted for depressed curbs (curb cuts)
shall be as follows:
A. For
parking areas containing two to eight parking spaces, twelve feet
minimum and sixteen feet maximum.
B. For
parking areas containing nine to fourteen parking spaces, sixteen
feet minimum and eighteen feet maximum.
C. For
parking areas containing fifteen or more parking spaces, eighteen
feet minimum and twenty-four feet maximum.
D. Exception.
Where the community development director and the city engineer determine
that a wider curb cut is necessary to provide safe access to and from
a street, the maximum curb cut width may be increased.
(Ord. 94-884)
A. No
parking area in the C/MU-1, C/MU-2, or C/MU-3 zone shall be located
so as to require or encourage the backing of automobiles or other
vehicles across any street lot line to effect egress from the place
of parking.
B. Parking
areas in R zones shall meet the following standard:
1. Where
properties abut both an alley and a street designed as a collector,
major, or prime arterial, no new street curb cuts or parking layouts
requiring backing into the street shall be allowed.
2. Where
properties abut both a collector, major, or prime arterial and a local
street, access shall be taken only from the local street.
3. Properties
abutting both an alley and residential street shall take access from
the alley with the exception that one sixteen-foot-wide curb cut allowing
no more than two vehicles to back into the street may be allowed.
(Ord. 94-884; Ord. 2012-1130 § 1)
Curb cuts shall be not less than four feet apart, nor less than
two feet from the prolongation of a side lot line.
(Ord. 94-884; Ord. 601 § 1, 1983)