Zoning Ordinance

In non residential districts, no off-street vehicular storage or parking area shall be allowed where the arrangement requires that vehicles back directly into a public street right-of-way.

4. Access for Lots Fronting on More Than One Street:

In all commercial developments where a lot abuts more than one street, the Planning Commission may require that the access be from the street of lowest classification when necessary to lessen serious congestion on the major street. If access is allowed onto two or more streets, the number of access points shall conform to those allowed for each street classification (see Subsection C).

5. Gasoline Service Stations:

Gasoline service stations shall be allowed two (2) access points onto the same street to allow proper circulation past the gasoline pumps. This is regardless of lot width or street classification provided the required access plan is approved by the AMRPC.

C. Construction of Frontage Roads and Interior Circulation Drives:

In order to limit the number of individual access points to an arterial or collector street, the AMRPC shall encourage and may require the development of Frontage Roads and Inter-connecting Interior Circulation Drives.

1. Frontage Roads:

Frontage roads are those which parallel the existing street and extend across the entire frontage of a particular large property or group of properties. Frontage roads may be required to provide safe and efficient public access to individual properties eliminating the traffic congestion which would be caused if each parcel had its own access onto the arterial or collector street. Access points between the frontage road and the arterial street shall be no closer together than 500 feet and no closer together than 300 feet along collector streets. All frontage roads shall be built to the standards specified in the City of Athens Minimum Subdivision Regulations Article 7, Sections 125, 126, and 127 and shall be dedicated as public streets and then maintained by the City of Athens.

Access requirements for property served by a frontage road shall be the same as for property fronting a minor street (i.e., at least 100 feet apart) except that the Planning Commission may also allow a regrouping of access points onto the frontage road in accordance with an approved site plan which does not destroy the intent of these access control provisions.

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