§ 265-100. Design standards for residential parking spaces utilizing individual driveways or back-out parking.

(A)

Driveways and carports that meet the dimensional requirements of this provision may be counted as off-street parking spaces for detached single-family homes, duplexes and townhome units regardless of the need to move one (1) automobile in order to afford ingress and egress for another automobile.

(B)

No parking space shall be designed to permit back-out parking directly onto a public right-of-way or private street, other than a dedicated alley, except for single-family, two-family and townhouse dwellings with an individual driveway for each unit, as follows:

(1)

The back-out parking is on a roadway not classified as an arterial or collector roadway, as defined in the comprehensive plan;

(2)

A minimum five-foot-wide sidewalk is installed parallel to the street where the back-out parking is located. The sidewalk requirement may be wider than minimum if necessary for consistency with sidewalk improvements on adjacent properties, city capital improvement or redevelopment plans, special design standards established for a particular zoning district or part of such zoning district, or to meet engineering standards;

(3)

The back-out parking spaces must meet geometric, drainage and site clearance standards and such other standards determined to be necessary to provide adequate and safe parking as determined by the community development director; and

(4)

Within the CRA form-based zoning districts, the establishment of new front yard parking is prohibited, except as provided in section 303.90.

(C)

All off-street parking spaces shall be of smooth paved surface and in good repair in compliance with city codes. Where an off-street parking space is surfaced with gravel, the owner of such off-street parking spaces shall maintain the public right-of-way free from loose gravel. Section 265-170, nonconforming parking facilities, establishes conditions that require unpaved off-street parking facilities to be paved.

(D)

Driveways constructed with material other than concrete or asphalt must provide an engineered subsurface and be permitted and approved by the public services.

(E)

Residential driveways for single family and duplex may be composed of gravel (peat rock).

(Ord. No. 2010-20, § 2(Exh. A), 9-14-10; Ord. No. 2012-008, § 7, 5-8-12; Ord. No. 2015-024, § 6, 10-27-15; Ord. No. 2016-007, § 6, 3-22-16)