Every person who constructs or establishes, causes, permits or allows to be constructed or established any driveway, entrance or exit connecting a street with private property wherever curb and sidewalk are maintained, shall first file an application with the engineering department in the manner provided in Section 12.16.020 and be issued a permit therefor.
(Prior code § 20.49)
Any person, or his or her duly authorized representative, who
applies for a permit to construct or establish a driveway, entrance
or exit shall file an application with the engineering department
signed and setting forth as follows:
A.
The
name and address of applicant;
B.
The
name and address of authorized representative, if any;
C.
Location
of proposed driveway by street number and by designating that portion,
in feet of the lot or property to be used;
D.
The
proprietary interest of applicant in lot or property;
E.
The
overall width of proposed driveway.
(Prior code § 20.50)
A cash deposit of twenty-five dollars shall be paid to the City
Clerk before a permit is issued under this chapter, which money shall
be held by the City Clerk in trust, conditioned upon the completing
of the driveway and the cutting and finishing of the curb according
to the specifications and requirements of the City. Upon certification
by the engineering department that all work has been completed in
full conformity with the provisions of this chapter and the standards
and specifications of the City, the City Manager shall, upon the expiration
of thirty days thereafter, authorize the return to the applicant of
the unexpended portion of the deposit, retaining the sum of five dollars
for costs of issuing the permit and inspections, plus any sums expended
by the City for completion to required standards. No permit to cut
curbs or to construct driveways shall be issued until the deposit
required in this chapter has been properly made.
(Prior code § 20.51)
An application for a permit to construct or establish any driveway,
entrance or exit as defined and referred to in this chapter shall
be filed with the engineering department. If the bottom width of the
proposed driveway, entrance or exit is twelve feet or less, the engineering
department may issue the permit forthwith; provided, however, should
the requested bottom width be greater than twelve feet, the City Manager
may deny a permit and refer the application to the City Council at
the next regular or adjourned meeting. Final action of the Council
at any subsequent meeting shall be governed by a report of the Police
Chief and the Fire Chief, which report shall determine the extent,
if any, of public inconvenience or hazard, created by such construction.
(Prior code § 20.52)
Any permit issued under the provisions of this chapter to construct
in any business district any driveway, entrance or exit shall provide
that within ninety days after the termination of any use for which
the permit was issued, the permittee, owner or lessee shall, at his
or her own expense, remove such driveway, entrance or exit and restore
to their original condition all sidewalks, curbs and streets so damaged
or displaced. If the permittee, owner or lessee fails to comply with
this section within ninety days after the termination of the use of
such driveway entrance or exit, the City Manager shall so report to
the City Council and the Council may instruct the City Manager to
abate such hazardous or inconvenient condition in the manner provided
by law.
(Prior code § 20.53)
Every driveway, entrance or exit constructed or established
connecting a street with private property, wherever a curb and sidewalk
are maintained, shall be constructed as follows:
A.
Where
Sidewalk Abuts Property Line. The floor or apron shall have a thickness
not less than six inches, and such driveway shall be continued from
such sidewalk on a straight line gradient through a cut in the curb
to the flow line of the gutter of such street.
B.
Where
Sidewalk Abuts Curb. The existing sidewalk shall be removed for the
entire width of the apron or floor of the proposed driveway, entrance
or exit. The apron or floor shall have a thickness of six inches and
shall be constructed on a straight line gradient from the flow line
of the gutter to the midline of the existing sidewalk and continue
thence on the same pitch as the remaining sidewalk to the rear line
of such sidewalk.
C.
Curb Return Not Required. In either case a "curb return" shall not be required. However, the bottom of the curb shall be made one inch above the flow line of the gutter and terminate in a forty-five degree slope at either end of the cut. The sides of the floor or apron shall conform to this angle at the curb and feather out at the junction with the sidewalk in the situation enumerated in subsection A of this section, and at the midline of the sidewalk in the situation enumerated in subsection B of this section. Both specifications are on file in the office of the City Engineer.
D.
Construction
Shall Conform. All such construction shall be in conformity with the
established standards and specifications of the City and subject to
the approval of the engineering department.
(Prior code § 20.46)
Every driveway, entrance or exit constructed or established
connecting a street with private property, wherever curb and sidewalk
are maintained, shall be restricted in width overall to fifty percent
or less of the frontage of that portion of such private property as
is directly involved in the use of the driveway. If, in the discretion
of the City Council sitting as a body in regular or adjourned session,
such restriction as to overall width of such driveway, entrance or
exit will not endanger the public in person or property or interfere
with the public convenience in the use of the sidewalk and street,
the City Council may waive the restriction as to the overall width.
Private convenience in the use of such driveway shall not be the basis
for the waiving of the restriction as to overall width.
(Prior code § 20.48)
Every driveway, entrance or exit constructed or established
connecting a street with private property shall be so constructed
or established that no portion of such driveway, entrance or exit
shall approach or pass within six feet of any fire hydrant.
(Prior code § 20.47)
No person shall construct or establish or cause, permit or allow
to be constructed or established any driveway, entrance or exit connecting
a street with private property where curb and sidewalks are maintained
by the City without first having obtained a permit as required by
this chapter.
(Prior code § 20.54; 89-16)
