12.08.070 Motor vehicle access.
Access to all lots and parcels of land having frontage on a public street shall be controlled as follows:
A. All driveways and sidewalks shall be constructed in conformance with Chapter 12.08, Sidewalk and Driveway Construction.
B. Access shall be allowed by not more than two driveways from any one street, unless it can be shown that additional driveways will promote traffic safety. The development review team shall determine the appropriate number of driveways.
C. Multi-Household Dwellings of Seven or More Units. Vehicular access for multi-household development of seven or more units shall be designed in such a way as to allow vehicles to pull forward into the on-street traffic flow.
D. Driveway entrances shall be not closer to each other than twenty feet in the I-1, C-1, C-2, C-3, C-4 and C-5 zones and not closer than ten feet in R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, RA-1 and A-2 zones unless approved by the public works department. When the driveway accesses a single-household home that is located on the bulb portion of a cul-de-sac, the drive separation shall not be less than five feet in width at the curb line.
E. Driveway Width. Commercial driveways shall be not more than thirty feet in width in any commercial or industrial zone measured at right angles to the centerline of the driveway unless required by other government agencies such as Utah Department of Transportation. In residential zones, driveways shall be not less than twelve feet and not more than twenty-two feet in width, except that the width for large-scale residential developments shall not exceed thirty feet unless required by an industry standard or other government agency.
F. Corner Lots. On commercial corner lots in the C-1, C-2, C-3, and C-4 zoned properties on Main Street, no driveway shall be closer than fifty feet to the back of curbs along the street that abuts the side property line. In the C-5, R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, RA-1 and A-2 zones, no driveway shall be closer than thirty feet to the side lot line along an intersecting side street.
G. Where there is no existing curb and gutter or sidewalk, a curb or fence may be required by the City.
H. Shared driveways may be approved to serve up to two lots. The shared driveway shall only be allowed at the discretion of the development review team, by exception, and provided the application meets the standards and criteria listed below:
1. The deeds for any lots which utilize a shared driveway shall include all appropriate easements to pass and repass; to install utilities as necessary; to grade, drain, and maintain; and provide slope easements where required by the City Engineer. A driveway maintenance requirement shall be stipulated in the deeds of both lots and shall be presented as part of the application for an exception. Such deeds shall also contain a provision that the driveway shall not be used for access to any other property and an acknowledgment that the City shall have no responsibility to construct, maintain, repair, or replace the driveway or to provide any service on or along the driveway access to such lot that is not generally provided by the City, on or along other individual driveways within the City.
I. Accessway. The shared driveway shall intersect with an existing or proposed city street or state highway. The driveway width shall be suitable in location and dimension for the proposed driveway and shall be not less than twenty feet in width in residential zones and thirty feet in width in commercial zones unless required by another government agency. (Ord. 19-13 § 21 (part), 2019; Ord. 17-37 (part), 2017)