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ORDINANCE #2017-37
AN ORDINANCE TO REPEAL MOAB MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 17.09.350, MOTOR
VEfflCLE ACCESS, AND AMENDING CHAPTER 12.08 WITH THE ADDITION OF A NEW
SECTION, 12.08.070, MOTOR VEHICLE ACCESS, DEALING WITH THE LOCATION AND
WIDTHS OF DRIVEWAYS IN SPECIFIC ZONES
The following findings describe the intent and purpose of this ordinance:
a. The City has enacted Chapter 12.00, Streets, Sidewalks and Public Places, to provide adequate
access to property, safe pedestrian travel along the public way, and to establish regulations for the safe
use of public open spaces.
b. From time to time the City undertakes to revise its ordinances to improve quality of land
development and has amended the dimensional requirements of residential lots to produce more housing
units by reducing the lot width and lot minimum area.
c. The City has reviewed the standards specified in MMC Section 17.09.350 and has determined
that the regulations for driveways do not allow for adequate property access.
d. Council reviewed the code amendments on K — /H , 2017, and found that the code
amendments are necessary to allow adequate property access within the various zoning districts.
e. The City finds that this ordinance will serve the public health, safety, and welfare, and that
adoption is in the best interests of the Moab community.
f. Council ordains that Ordinance #2017-37 is hereby adopted and the specified code sections are
amended as stated below.
17.09.350 Motor vehicle access, is hereby repealed in its entirety;
AND,
A new Section 12.08.070, Motor vehicle access, is hereby adopted to read:
"Access to all lots and parcels of land having frontage on a public street shall be controlled as follows:
A. All driveways and sidewalks shall be constructed in conformance with MMC Chapter 12.08, Sidewalk
and Driveway Construction.
B. Access shall be allowed by not more than two (2) driveways from any one street, unless it can be
shown that additional driveways will promote traffic safety. The Development Review Team shall
determine the appropriate number of driveways.
C. Multi-Family Dwellings of Seven or More Units. Vehicular access for multi-family development of
seven or more units shall be designed in such a way as to allow vehicles to pull forward into the on-street
traffic flow.
D. Driveway entrances shall be not closer to each other than twenty (20) feet in the I-l, C-1, C-2, C-3,
C-4 and C-5 zones and not closer than ten (10) feet in R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, RA-1 and A-2 zones unless
approved by the public works department. When the driveway accesses a single family home that is
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located on the bulb portion of a cul-de-sac, the drive separation shall not be less than five (5) feet in width
at the curb line.
E. Driveway width. Commercial driveways shall be not more than thirty (30) feet in width in any
commercial or industrial zone measured at right angles to the centerline of the driveway unless required
by other government agencies such as Utah Department of Transportation. In residential zones, driveways
shall be not less than twelve (12) feet and not more than twenty two (22) feet in width, except that the
width for large-scale residential developments shall not exceed thirty (30) feet unless required by an
industry standard or other government agency.
F. Comer Lots. On commercial comer lots in the C-1, C-2, C-3, and C-4 zoned properties on Main
Street, no driveway shall be closer than fifty (50) feet to the back of curbs along the street that abuts the
side property line. In the C-5, R-1, R-2, R-3, R-4, RA-1 and A-2 zones, no driveway shall be closer than
thirty (30) feet to the side lot line along an intersecting side street.
G. Where there is no existing curb and gutter or sidewalk, a curb or fence may be required by the city.
H. Shared driveways may be approved to serve up to two (2) lots. The shared driveway shall only be
allowed at the discretion of the Development Review Team, by exception, and provided the application
meets the standards and criteria listed below.
1. The deeds for any lots which utilize a shared driveway shall include all appropriate
easements to pass and repass; to install utilities as necessary; to grade, drain, and maintain; and provide
slope easements where required by the City Engineer. A driveway maintenance requirement shall be
stipulated in the deeds of both lots and shall be presented as part of the application for an exception.
Such deeds shall also contain a provision that the driveway shall not be used for access to any other
property and an acknowledgment that the City shall have no responsibility to constract, maintain,
repair, or replace the driveway or to provide any service on or along the driveway access to such lot
that is not generally provided by the City, on or along other individual driveways within the City.
I. Accessway. The shared driveway shall intersect with an existing or proposed city street or State
Highway. The driveway width shall be suitable in location and dimension for the proposed driveway
and shall be not less than twenty (20) feet in width in residential zones and thirty (30) feet in width in
commercial zones unless required by another govemment agency."
In effect on the day of passage;
PASSED AND APPROVED in open Council by a majority vote of the Goveming Body of Moab City
Coun^on the day of 2017.
David L. Sakrison, Mayor
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