It is the intent of this section to encourage
parking plazas and contiguous rear thoroughfares to minimize access
to parking areas through main public streets.
A. The minimum fixed parking space requirements (not
related to areas) for any listed and approved (nonresidential) site
use may be reduced by half at the discretion of the Planning Board
if, in its judgment, the availability of contiguous rear yard thoroughfares
or contiguous parking plazas make adequate parking available on adjacent
sites. Contiguous rear yard thoroughfares and parking plazas must
have legal deed restrictions applicable to all the property in question
to assure unlimited direct access now and in the future to each and
all of the available outdoor parking spaces of all the properties
in question which benefited in or approved of reduced parking space
requirements. Copies of all the deeds showing the referenced site
plans must be on file with the Planning Board before parking space
limitations may be reduced.
B. Each parking area on a site must still have access
to the main street, and parking must still comply with the area parking
requirements applicable to each approved use. Contiguous parking areas
must provide for direct, safe and unencumbered access through the
adjacent properties. A minimum unencumbered transit width of 20 feet
is required between properties.
C. Wherever feasible, contiguous parking plazas and thoroughfares
in the B and RC Zoning Districts shall be provided with safe, unencumbered
pedestrian access (situated between buildings, if necessary) to the
main street that the subject buildings front upon. Such access shall
incorporate appropriate surface materials suitable for pedestrian
usage and shall be lighted in accordance with the standards of this
chapter. At the discretion of the reviewing board, pedestrian accessways
may encroach upon accessory structure setback requirements, and/or,
with establishment of appropriate access easements, may straddle shared
property lines (in which case, property line light intensity limitations
may also be waived).
Sight triangle easements shall be required at
the intersection of a street with another street and at the intersection
of a street with a driveway providing ingress and/or egress to a nonresidential
or multifamily residential development. Within the triangular area
determined as provided in this section, no wall, fence, structure
or other object shall be erected to a height in excess of 30 inches;
no vehicle, object or other obstruction of a height in excess of 30
inches shall be permitted within the corner clearance area; and no
hedge, shrub or other growth shall be maintained at a height in excess
of 30 inches, except trees whose branches are trimmed to a height
of at least seven feet above the curb level shall be permitted.
A. Such triangular area or sight triangle is defined
as that area bounded by the intersecting street lines or driveway
cartway lines and the straight line connecting sight points, one each
located on the two intersecting street and/or driveway center lines.
(1)
Sight points on driveways shall be 15 feet from
the edge of pavement of the intersecting roadway.
(2)
At the intersection of streets with no stop
controls, the sight point for each street shall be 90 feet from the
intersection of the center lines.
(3)
In the instance of street intersections with
stop controls for each street, the sight points shall be 75 feet from
the intersection of the center lines.
(4)
For partially stop-controlled intersections
and for intersections of driveways with streets, the required dimension
of the sight triangle shall depend upon the established speed limit
of the uncontrolled street (or for future streets, the proposed design
speed) in accordance with guidelines promulgated by the Institute
of Traffic Engineers (ITE). Clear sight lines shall be provided, as
follows, for a driver situated at 15 feet from the edge of pavement
of the uncontrolled street or driveway:
|
Speed Limit of Uncontrolled Street
(miles per hour)
|
Minimum Required Sight Distance
(feet)
|
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|
25
|
250
|
|
30
|
300
|
|
35
|
350
|
|
40
|
400
|
|
45
|
450
|
|
50
|
500
|
B. No object or other obstruction shall be so located
along any straight or curved roadway as to reduce the line of sight
along said road to less than 400 feet.