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EVERETT 2044 DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS 6/17/2025 DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS Page 236 equipped with a plate or marker showing the manufacturer’s gross vehicle weight ratfng, the weight of a 1 vehicle shall be determined as follows: 2 1. Any motor vehicle having less than six wheels is the equivalent of a vehicle having a 3 manufacturer’s gross vehicle weight ratfng of less than sixteen thousand pounds. 4 2. Any motor vehicle having six wheels or more is the equivalent of a vehicle having a 5 manufacturer’s gross vehicle weight ratfng of sixteen thousand pounds or more. 6 19.34.110 VEHICULAR ACCESS TO OFF-STREET PARKING – ALLEYS AND DRIVEWAYS. 7 A. Alleys. Access to off-street parking areas shall be provided from the alley where available. The intent 8 of this requirement is to: 9 1. Enhance the safety of parking areas; 10 2. Minimize potentfal conflicts between vehicles and pedestrians; 11 3. Efficiently manage traffic in off-street parking areas; 12 4. Reduce visual impacts on surrounding propertfes and improve streetscape appearance. 13 B. Alley Access Exceptfon. Access from the public street where the lot abuts an alley will only be 14 allowed as an exceptfon to the alley access requirement. The city engineer, in consultatfon with the 15 planning director, may allow access to required off-street parking from the street in lieu of, or in additfon 16 to, using the alley in the following circumstances: 17 1. The topography of the site and/or adjacent alley makes use of the alley infeasible; or 18 2. The requirement for access from the alley would create a traffic or pedestrian safety hazard, 19 such as sight distance problems or conflicts with other ingress/egress locatfons; or 20 3. There is an existfng improvement that prevents use of the alley for vehicular access and the 21 improvement cannot reasonably be relocated or removed; or 22 4. For nonresidentfal or mixed uses, driveway access from the street is necessary to provide 23 access for commercial customer traffic; this exceptfon may not be used to justffy a street access 24 point that primarily provides access to employee or resident parking areas; or 25 5. Providing access from the street will reduce or minimize adverse impacts on adjacent 26 propertfes; or 27 6. Street access for multfple levels of off-street parking within a structure when access from an 28 alley to all parking levels is not feasible due to topography or lot geometry. 29 C. Driveways. The design of all driveways and internal vehicle circulatfon shall be in accordance with 30 EMC Title 13 and the city design standards. Maximum driveway width within the public right-of-way shall 31 be as provided in Chapter 13.16 EMC. For residentfal zones, the following additfonal requirements shall 32 apply to the portfon of the driveway located outside the right-of-way for : 33 1. For non-alley access lots, the maximum driveway width within the front or street side 34 setback within twenty feet of the right-of-way abutting the front lot line shall not exceed thirty 35