Parking and loading areas shall be designed in accordance with the following requirements:

A.

Surfaces. Areas used for standing and maneuvering of vehicles shall have durable and dustless surfaces maintained adequately for all-weather use.

B.

Sight-obscuring fence. Except for parking to serve residential uses, parking and loading areas adjacent to or within residential districts or adjacent to residential uses shall be designed to minimize disturbance of residents by the erection between the uses of a sight-obscuring fence of not less than five feet nor more than six feet in height except where vision clearance is required.

C.

Curbs and wheel stops. Parking spaces along the outer boundaries of a parking lot shall be contained by a curb or wheel stops at least four inches high and set back a minimum of four feet from the sidewalk line, or by a bumper rail set back a minimum of one foot from the sidewalk.

D.

Artificial lighting. Artificial lighting which may be provided shall be deflected so as not to shine or create glare in any residential district or on any adjacent dwelling.

E.

Interior access lanes. Interior access lanes shall be of sufficient width for all vehicle turning and maneuvering.

F.

Maneuvering space. Except for dwellings, parking spaces shall be located and served by a driveway so that their use will require no backing movements or other maneuvering within a street right-of-way other than an alley.

G.

Service drives.

1.

Service drives to off-street parking areas shall be designed and constructed to facilitate the flow of traffic, and to provide maximum safety of traffic access and egress and maximum safety for pedestrians and vehicular traffic on the site. The number of service drives shall be limited to the minimum that will allow the property to accommodate the traffic to be anticipated.

2.

Service drives shall not be more than 24 feet in width and shall be clearly and permanently marked and defined through the use of rails, fences, walls or other barriers or markers on frontage not occupied by service drives.

3.

Service drives on the same lot frontage shall be separated by a minimum length of curb of 30 feet. For every foot by which the lot frontage exceeds 100 feet, the minimum required length of curb shall be increased by one foot, up to a maximum requirement of 200 feet. In the case of a corner lot, service drives shall be located not closer than 30 feet to the intersecting street line.

4.

The access to a service drive from a street shall be located not closer than 15 feet to a side lot line, except that a common service drive to two adjacent properties with width not exceeding 24 feet may be provided at the common lot line.

5.

Service drives shall have a minimum vision clearance area formed by the intersection of the driveway centerline, the street right-of-way line, and a straight line joining such lines through points 30 feet from their intersection.

(Code 1962, § 25-5-103(I); Ord. No. 424-1973, § 1; Code 1977, § 17.20.130)