Land which is zoned or is hereafter rezoned as a district designated with a suffix "A" (e.g., F-1-A, R-1-A, R-2-A, R-3-A, B-1-A, M-2-A, etc.), shall be subject to all of the provisions of the zoning district regulations stated in this title applicable to districts of the same designation but without a suffix "A," except those provisions in conflict with this section. Except as provided in this section, no use shall be permitted in any such suffix "A" district which would allow for uncontrolled vehicular access directly to or from an abutting major street or thoroughfare. All permitted and special uses must have provisions made for vehicular traffic to enter and leave the premises, if at all, by way of side streets, alleys, frontage roads, or other local access ways, with ultimate access to major streets or thoroughfares only at established intersections or authorized controlled access points. If credible evidence including a plan of development presented to the plan commission clearly establishes that no arrangements for vehicular access to or from a particular zoning lot can reasonably be made by the acquisition of an easement, lease, license, or purchase from property owners of any contiguous zoning lot or lots, and the plan commission finds that allowing a controlled access way directly from the property in question to the abutting major street or thoroughfare would not substantially interfere with the public use of the major street or thoroughfare nor adversely affect the public safety or welfare, and that such direct vehicular access is essential to the development of the zoning lot, then the plan commission may recommend and the city council may authorize a direct vehicular access way from the zoning lot to and from the abutting major street or thoroughfare; provided, that such authorized access way is designated as a stop intersection for traffic entering the major street or thoroughfare and is controlled by an official traffic-control device installed by or at the direction of the unit of government having jurisdiction of the major street or thoroughfare. Upon recommendation of the plan commission, the city council may make such authorization temporary, to be terminated at a stated time or upon the occurrence of a stated event. Nothing contained in this section shall be construed to deprive any property owner of any rights of vehicular access to property for any use which would have been permitted under the zoning district regulations applicable to the property immediately prior to such a rezoning to a suffix "A" district. The provisions of Sections 17.40.050, 17.40.060 and 17.40.070 shall not apply to any use in any such suffix "A" district which is a nonconforming use solely by reason of previously existing vehicular access directly to an abutting major street or thoroughfare.

(Ord. 442 § 1(B), 1973: Ord. 400 § 1, 1972: Ord. 391 § 1(R), 1972: Ord. 280 § 6.06, 1968.)