Ordinance 3618-18 - Laserfiche WebLink

NOW,THEREFORE,THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: [Proposed changes are shown with a vertical bar in the left hand margin; words struck through are proposed for deletion; words that are underlined are proposed additions.] Section 1. Section 2 of Ordinance No. 3498, Chapter 13.16, Driveways in Title 13 (Streets and Sidewalks, EMC 13.16.020) is hereby amended as follows: 13.16.020 Improvement permit required. A. No person, firm or corporation shall remove, alter or construct any curb, sidewalk, driveway approach, gutter, pavement or other improvement in any public street, alley or other property owned by or dedicated to or used by the city and over which it has jurisdiction to regulate the matters covered hereby, without first obtaining a permit from the city engineer, and no permit shall be granted until the applicant shall file with the city engineer for his approval a copy of a drawing showing the location and size of all such proposed improvements to serve the property affected. B. It shall be a violation of this title to drive over an improvement located within the public right-of- way, such as a curb, sidewalk or landscape area,without first obtaining a permit for a driveway approach from the city engineer and constructing the improvement(s) authorized by the permit. Section 2. Section 5 of Ordinance No. 3498, Chapter 13.16, Driveways in Title 13 (Streets and Sidewalks, EMC 13.16.050) is hereby amended as follows: 13.16.050 Prohibited locations. Driveways shall be located as follows: A. No driveway approach shall be permitted to encompass any municipal facility under the permit provided for herein. Applicant may be authorized to relocate any municipal facility including any within the limits of a curb return which may be encroached upon as allowed under subsections C and D of this section; B. At street intersections, no portion of any driveway approach, including end slopes, shall be permitted between the limits of the intersection of the prolonged property lines and the curb, except as may be allowed under subsections C and D of this section; C. At street intersections no portion of any driveway approach, including end slopes, shall be permitted between the limits of the intersection of the prolonged back edges of the sidewalks and the curb, except as may be allowed under subsection D of this section; D. On all curb returns at street intersections, where the radius is twenty-five feet or more, driveway approaches, including end slopes, may encroach upon each end of the return for a distance equal to twelve and one-half percent of the total length of the arc of the curb return,thus leaving at least seventy-five percent of the length of the arc of the curb return face free from driveway encroachment; E. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections B and C of this section, at street intersections no portion of any driveway approach including end slopes shall be permitted between the points of curvature of the curb return where the radius of the curb is twenty feet or less; F. No permit for a driveway approach shall be granted where r asonable egress and ingress, for the purpose for which the property is used, can be secured from the alley; Access from the public street where the lot abuts an alley will only be allowed as an exception to using the alley for access. Pursuant Parking Amendments 2 8/29/18