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Garland City Zoning Code

CHAPTER 14

MOTOR VEHICLE ACCESS

9-14-1: BUSINESSES REQUIRING ACCESS:

Service stations, roadside stands, public parking lots and all other businesses requiring motor vehicle access shall meet the requirements as hereinafter provided. (Ord., 9-3-1996)

9-14-2: ROADWAYS AND CURBS:

Access to the station or other structure or parking lot shall be controlled as follows:
   A.   Access shall be by not more than two (2) roadways for each one hundred feet (100') or fraction thereof of frontage on any street.
   B.   Said roadways shall not be closer to a side property line than three feet (3').
   C.   Each roadway shall be not more than thirty five feet (35') in width, measured at right angles to the centerlines of the driveway, except as increased by permissible curb return radii. The entire flare of any return radius shall fall within the right of way.
   D.   No roadway shall be closer than ten feet (10') to the point of intersection of two (2) property lines at any corner as measured along the property line, and no roadway shall extend across such extended property line.
   E.   In all cases where there is an existing curb and gutter or sidewalk on the street, the applicant for a permit shall provide paving or provide a safety island along the entire frontage of the property. If a safety island is installed, the two (2) ends and street side of each such island shall have a concrete curb, the height, location and structural specifications of which shall be approved by the building inspector.
   F.   All new construction shall require sidewalk and curb and gutter. (Ord., 9-3-1996)

9-14-3: LOCATION OF GASOLINE PUMPS:

Gasoline pumps shall be set back not less than eighteen feet (18') from any street line to which the pump island is perpendicular and twelve feet (12') from any street line to which the pump island is parallel, and not less than ten feet (10') from any residential or agricultural zone boundary line. If the pump island is set at an angle on the property, it shall be so located that automobiles stopped for service will not extend over the property line. (Ord., 9-3-1996)