Item 4: Ordinance on Chapter 9 and EC 7.420

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EC 9.5500 Multiple-Family Standards. Removes regulations related to access connections within the public right-of-way to distinguish differences and authority between driveways and access connections. EC 9.6505 Improvements-Specifications. Clarifies street and alley improvements include sidewalks, street lights, and street trees as part of the street improvements and improvement requirements for streets adjacent to development is the same as within the development. Removes redundant references to private street regulations from this section. EC 9.6703 Driveways and Internal Circulation. Clarifies and coordinates driveways regulations with the new access connection provisions. EC 9.6735 Public Access Required. Requires land use and building permit applications include locating access connections in compliance with EC 7.420 in the approval process. EC 9.6745 Setbacks-Intrusions Permitted and EC 9.6750 Special Setback Standards. Requires special setbacks when the abutting street is not improved with curb, gutter, sidewalk, street trees and street lights and proposing to change the “default” width of special setbacks from the maximum street width established by Table 9.6870 to the minimum width required by Table 9.6870. For discretionary land use decisions, the City will still have the ability to require more than the minimum setback width, so long as the requirement is consistent with adopted standards. EC 9.6840 Reserve Strips. Clarifies reserve strips may be used to prevent access to arterial and major collector streets. EC 9.6870 Street Widths and EC 9.6873 Slope Easements. Changes the “default” width of streets from the maximum street width established by Table 9.6870 to the minimum width required by Table 9.6870. For discretionary land use decisions, the City will still have the ability to require more than the minimum street width, so long as the requirement is consistent with adopted standards. Since Table 9.6870 does not provide a range for alley widths, language has been added that would allow the City to reduce the width with discretionary land use decisions. Redundant construction standards in section (1) are being removed and slope easements in section (2) are being moved to their own code section, 9.6873. EC 9.8030 Adjustment Review-Approval Criteria. Provides adjustment approval criteria for street and alley improvements; driveway and internal circulation, and access connection location requirements. Adjustment criteria for streets and alley improvements would allow applicants to meet paving requirements under a Temporary Surfacing Permit when full improvements are unwarranted. The adjustment criteria for driveway and internal circulation would allow applicants to shorten driveway stacking requirements when an alternative traffic safety study demonstrates safe ingress and egress and doesn’t result in a hazard for vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians and doesn’t negatively impact the efficient use of the public right-of-way. The adjustment criteria for public access would allow applicants to adjust the location of their access connection in the following cases: when physical conditions preclude compliance with EC 7.420; when an alternate location will still provide safe and efficient access; when the proposed development doesn’t impact an existing access connection; or when access connections on a secondary street creates traffic patterns which are inconsistent with the surrounding area. Z:\CMO\2010 Council Agendas\M100216\S1002164.doc