The purpose of this article is to provide for
safe and efficient travel along public roads in the Village of Springville
and to prevent the adverse social and aesthetic impacts associated
with strip road frontage development, and promote development which
harmonizes with the objectives of the Village of Springville by providing
clear and consistent access management standards for the development
of properties abutting public roads. This article is enacted pursuant
to the authorization provided by Article 7 of the Village Law of New
York State.
This article shall apply to all properties abutting
public roads or with direct access or common connections to public
roads within the boundaries of CIP Districts created by this chapter.
The provisions of this article may also be considered and applied
as deemed appropriate by the Planning Board in any site plan review
associated with the use or modification of use of real property in
any other zoning district of the Village of Springville.
The location and design of driveways and other
site layout, parking and access management conditions shall conform
to all federal, state, and local requirements, including and not limited
to those established in this article. Further, the requirements of
this article are not to be substituted for the zoning subdivision
and site plan approval provisions provided in this chapter or any
other chapter of the Code of the Village of Springville but are to
be superimposed over such provisions and should be considered as additional
requirements.
Words used in this article if needing further
definition beyond their usual and ordinary meanings shall be given
their meanings as used in standard highway construction and safety
reference manuals and regulations of the New York State Department
of Transportation unless otherwise defined in this chapter. The following
words when used in this article shall have the following meanings:
ACCESS
A way or means of approach to provide vehicular or pedestrian
entrance or exit to a property.
ACCESS CONNECTION
Any driveway, street, turnout, or other means of providing
for the movement of vehicles to or from the public road system or
between abutting sites.
ACCESS MANAGEMENT
The process of providing and managing reasonable access to
land development while preserving the flow of traffic in terms of
safety, capacity, and speed.
CORNER CLEARANCE
The distance from an intersection of a public or private
road to the nearest access connection, measured from the closest edge
of the driveway pavement to the closest edge of the road pavement.
CROSS ACCESS
A service road or driveway providing vehicular access between
two or more contiguous sites so a vehicle need not enter the public
road system.
DRIVEWAY
Any entrance or exit used by vehicular traffic to or from
land or buildings abutting a road.
DRIVEWAY, SHARED
A driveway connecting two or more contiguous properties to
the public road system.
FUNCTIONAL AREA (INTERSECTION)
The area beyond the physical intersection of two roads that
comprises decision and maneuver distance plus any required vehicle
storage length.
FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATION
A system used to group public roads into classes according
to their purpose in moving vehicles and providing access to abutting
properties.
NONCONFORMING ACCESS
Features of the access system of a property that existed
prior to the effective date of this article and that do not conform
with the requirements of this article.
PEAK-HOUR TRIP (PHT)
A weighted average vehicle trip generated rate during the
hour of highest volume of traffic entering and exiting the site in
the morning (a.m.) or the afternoon (p.m.).
REASONABLE ACCESS
The minimum number of access connections, direct or indirect,
necessary to provide safe access to and from a public road, as consistent
with the purpose and intent of this article and any other applicable
plans and policies of the Village of Springville.
RESTRICTIVE MEDIAN
A physical barrier in the roadway that separates traffic
traveling in opposite directions, such as a concrete barrier or landscaped
island.
ROAD
A way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as a "street,"
"highway," "thoroughfare," "parkway," "through-way," "avenue," "boulevard,"
"lane," "cul-de-sac," "place," or otherwise designated, and includes
the entire area within the right-of-way.
ROAD, ARTERIAL
A road serving comparatively large volumes of high-speed
(45 miles per hour or greater), long-distance or through traffic and
which also provides access to abutting properties.
ROAD, COLLECTOR
A road which provides access to abutting properties and which
links development roads, collector roads, or other local roads to
major traffic roads.
ROAD, DEVELOPMENT
A road which is specifically constructed or intended to provide
access to abutting properties for residential purposes or other high-density
uses as determined by the underlying zoning.
ROAD, SERVICE (ALSO ACCESS ROAD)
A public or private road, auxiliary to and normally located
parallel to a controlled-access facility, that maintains local road
continuity and provides access to properties adjacent to the controlled-access
facility.
TEMPORARY ACCESS
Provision of direct access to a road until that time when
adjacent properties develop in accordance with a joint access agreement
or frontage road plan.
THROAT LENGTH
The length of a driveway from the road to the parking area;
or the length of a collector road from the road to another collector
road or service road, or the length of a service road from the road
to another service road or collector road.