Title 8 STREETS AND SIDEWALKS
Chapter 8.64 DRIVEWAY APPROACHES AND CURB CUTS
8.64.100 Permits--Areas of limited street improvement.
(a) Where standard gutters and curbs have been installed but
concrete sidewalks have not been, the permit may authorize the applicant to
construct the driveway approach from the curb line to the applicant's premises
of the same materials as those used for paving applicant's premises. Such
driveway approach shall be constructed to established grade and shall be
adequate and suitable for the traffic to be carried by it. The permit shall
provide, and the applicant shall agree, that if and when thereafter concrete
sidewalks are constructed the applicant or his successor shall install concrete
driveway approaches.
(b) Where standard gutters and curbs have not been installed,
the apron lengths set forth in Section 8.64.070 shall be measured along the
property line and there shall be not less than twenty feet of frontage between
driveway approaches serving any one property. Permits shall not be issued for
any surface improvement or paving on the street right-of-way between driveway
approaches unless a concrete curb or other physical obstruction, of a design
satisfactory to the director of public works, is constructed and maintained by
the applicant along his property line, so that the entrance and exit of vehicles
to and from applicant's property will be restricted to the established driveway
approaches. Pursuant to the permit provided for herein, applicant may surface
the driveway approaches or other areas within the right-of-way by extending the
same type of paving used on applicant's premises so that it merges with the
street pavement, provided applicant's paving is adequate and suitable for the
traffic to be carried, and does not interfere with proper street drainage. Such
paving between the property line and the street pavement may meet the street
pavement at a point ahead of the curb opening in order to provide for safe
deceleration of vehicles turning into the applicant's premises. If applicant's
paving is extended beyond the property line into a street right-of-way at an
intersection or crossroad, the director of public works may require applicant to
construct a suitable traffic island or curb to provide for the protection of
such municipal facilities as may be necessary. (Ord. B-1996 § 9, as amended
by Ord. 993 § 6; January 22, 1986).