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Home My WebLink AboutORD 1987-054 ORDINANCE NO. 87-54 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CITY CODE OF THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS, BY AMENDING CHAPTER 20 , SECTION 20-44 RELATING TO DRIVEWAY DESIGN AND PLACE- MENT STANDARDS IN ITS ENTIRETY; PROVID- ING A PENALTY NOT TO EXCEED THE SUM OF !"'""` TWO HUNDRED DOLLARS ($2 0 0 . 0 0) AND A SEPARATE OFFENSE SHALL BE DEEMED COMMITTED UPON EACH DAY DURING OR ON WHICH A VIOLATION OCCURS; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF GRAPEVINE, TEXAS : Section 1 . That the Grapevine City Code be, and the same is, hereby amended by amending Chapter 20 , Section 20-44 relating to driveway design and placement standards, in its entirety and that it shall read as attached in Exhibit "A" . Section 2 . Any person violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not to exceed Two Hundred ($200 . 00) for each offense and a separate offense shall be deemed committed upon each day during or on which a violation occurs or continues. Section 3 . If any section, article, paragraph, sentence, �,,:.� clause, phrase or word in this ordinance, or application thereof to any person or circumstance, is held invalid or unconstitutional by a Court of competent jurisdiction, such holding shall not affect the validity of the re�aining portions of the ordinance, and the City Council hereby declares it would have passed such remaining of the ordinance despite such invalidity, which remaining portions shall remain in full force and effect. Section 4 . The fact that the present ordinances and regulations of the City of Grapevine, Texas, are inadeguate to properly safeguard the health, safety, morals, peace, and general welfare of the inhabitants of the City of Grapevine, Texas, creates an emergency for the immediate preservation of public business, property, health, safety, and general welfare of the public which requires that this ordinance shall become effective from and after the date of its passage and it is accordingly so ordained. PASSED AND APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF �,� GRAPEVINE, TEXAS on this the lst day of September , 1987 . APPROVED: � Mayor ATTEST: City ecretary APPROVED AS TO FORM: C� City Attorney � � �� EXHIBIT "A" TO ORDINANCE NO. 87-54 Sec. 20-44. DRIVEWAY DESIGN & PLACEMENT STANDARDS � A. Definition of Driveway Types: For the purposes of interpreting the �, provisions of these rules and regulations, the following definitions shall apply. 1. Residential Driveway - One which provides access to a single family residence, or a duplex. These drives shall, whenever possible, intersect on collector or residential type roadways only. 2. Commercial Driveway - One which provides access to an office, retail or institutional building or to a multi-family complex having more than two units. It is anticipated that such buildings will have incidental truck service. Commercial drives shall access, whenever possible, onto collector and arterial thoroughfares only. In those cases where commercial drives must access residential streets, the spacing requirements of collector streets shall govern the driveway placement. (Fig. 20.2) 3. Industrial Driveway - One which directly services substantial numbers of truck movements to and from loading docks of an industrial facility, warehouse or truck terminal. A centralized retail development, such as a community or regional shopping center, may have one or more driveways specially ,designed, signed and located to provide access for trucks and such driveways shall be considered "'°�" industrial driveways. Industrial plant driveways whose principal function it is to serve administrative or employee parking lots shall be considered a commercial driveway. Industrial drives shall access, whenever possible, to arterial thoroughfares or industrial roadways. In those cases where industrial drives must access residential or collector streets, the spacing requirements for minor arterials shall govem the driveway placement. (Fig. 20.2) B. State Highways - All driveways on State numbered highways shall conform to the more restrictive of the most current SDHPT regulations regarding driveway placement and construction or the City of Grapevine Standards. C. Driveway Dimensions: 1. Driveway Widths - As the term is used here, the width of a driveway refers to the width of pavement at the property line. No property shall have drive widths in excess of sixty (60%) percent of the property frontage. . a. Residential Driveways - Residential driveways onto streets shall have a minimum width of twelve (12`) feet and a maximum width of twenty-five (25') feet. (Fig. 20.1) Joint access residential drives shall have a minimum width of twenty (20') ""�"" feet and no less than nine (9') feet on either property. (Fig. 20.3) Driveway Standards CPage 2. b. Commercial/Industrial Driveways - �ao way operation (90° ""�"" only) (1) Commercial drives shall have a minimum width of twenty �� (20') feet and a maximum width of forty (40') feet. (Fig. 20.2) (2) Industrial drives shall have a minimum width of thirty (30`) feet and a maximum width of forty (40') feet. (Fig. 20.2) (3)� Toint access drives shall meet or exceed the minimum required width and have no less than ten (10') feet on either property. The full drive width and access pavement to both properties shall be constructed with the first , development. Approval of a joint access drive requires a �� signed letter of agreement between both owners submitted I with the site plan. (Fig. 20.3) c. Commercial/Industrial Driveways - One Way Operation (1) Ninety degree (90°) drives shall have a width of � twenty-two (22') feet for ingress and twenty (20') feet for . egress, with the separation median width being a minimum of of eight (8') feet and a maximum of ten (10') feet. (Fig. 20.4) """� (2) Sixty (60°) degree angular drives shall have a width of �.,:� twenty (20') feet for ingress and sixteen (16') feet for egress, with the separation median width being a minimum of , eight (8') feet and a maximum of ten (10') feet. (Fig, I 20.5) (3) Joint access ninety (90°) degree drives shall have a width of twenty-two (22') feet for ingress, twenty (20') feet for egress, the separation median width being a minimum of eight (8') feet and a maximum of ten (10') feet and no less than ten (10') feet of pavement width on either property. The full drive width and access pavement to both properties shall be constructed with the first development. Approval of a joint access drive requires a signed letter of agreement between both owners submitted with the site plan. (Fig. 20.3) D. Driveway Radii: All driveways intersecting dedicated streets shall be built with a circular curb radius connecting the roadway curb to the design width pavement of the driveway, measured at the property line. Drive radii shall fall entirely within the subject property so as to begin �< at a point on the street which is located within the limits of the projection of the property corners perpendicular to the street curb. (Fig. � 20. 1 & 20.2) � �,�, Driveway Standards �� Page 3. *'�" 1. Ninety (90°) degree Intersection. a. The curb radii for a residential drive shall be a minimum of „�._,,� five (5') feet and a maximum of ten (10') feet. (Fig. 20.1) b. The curb radii for a commercial drive shall be twenty (20') feet. (Fig. 20.2) c. The curb radii for an industrial drive shall be twenty-five (25') feet. (Fig. 20.2) 2. Sixty (60°) degree intersection. (Fig. 20.5) a. The curb radii shall be five (5') feet for the outside of the drive and five (5') feet for the median. b. Driveway radii shall always be designed to become tangent to the street curb line in order that the definition of the location of the edge of pavement for the thoroughfare may be maintained. E. Driveway Spacing and Location in Relation to Other Drives: Spacings and locations in relation to other drives and to intersecting roadways, and � standard details are outlined in Figure 20.I through 20.7. 1. Driveways shall not be allowed to be placed within the functional boundaries of intersections which include the transition sections of „�,,,,;,, acceleration and deceleration lanes. (Fig. 20.6) 2. Driveways shall not be within twenty (20') feet of the conflict area of T or Y intersections. (Fig. 20.7) 3. All driveways must maintain a minimum distance of five (5') feet from utility poles, fire hydrants, underground manholes or vaults, curb inlets, etc. (Fig. 20.1 & 20.2) 4. Exiting lots with street frontage that can not meet the minimum spacing standards specified in this section and accompanying figures will be allowed one minimum width drive for principal access to be located so as to present the least possible effect on traffic flow. In cases where corner lots can only meet the minimum driveway spacing standards on one street, access shall not be permitted on the street where the minimum standards are not met. ' S. Median Cuts and Spacing - Only one driveway opening shall be allowed per median opening on either side of the roadway. Drives not aligned with median openings shall not be allowed within seventy-five (75') feet of the limits of the median opening. (Fig. 20.6) r �� ,__ r � Driveway Standards � Page 4. F. MISCELLANEOUS: � 1. Residential Access to Collector and Arterials - Driveways from single-family dwellings and duplexes are to be placed on local and collector streets and shall not be placed on arterial streets and the following specific roadways: Park Boulevard, Dove Road, Dove Loop, Heritage Avenue, Cheek-Sparger Road, Hall-Johnson Road, Pool Road, Baze Road, Grapevine-Euless Road, Hughes Road, Glade Road, Dooley Street from Wildwood Street to Bushong, north-south section of Kimball Road, a proposed 4-lane arterial to run north-south from Dove Road to Kimball Road parallel to and west of the existing Snakey Lane, or any other street not yet constructed but shown as a 4-lane or larger street in the Grapevine Thoroughfare Plan, as amended. 2. Thickness - All reinforced concrete driveways opening on City , streets with curb and gutter shall have a minimum thickness of six �! (6") inches within the street right-of-way. 3. Culverts - Where culverts are required, the culverts shall be of Class III, ASTM C-76 reinforced concrete pipe with tongue and - groove joints and shall have a minimum length of three (3`) feet beyond driveway edge for all driveways. Minimum size shall be fifteen � (15") inches inside diameter. 4. Expansion Joints - Expansion joints for reinforced concrete driveway aprons shall be placed where the driveway apron joins ''"�' sidewalks, concrete curb and gutter, concrete paving and at the right-of-way line. � � 5. Slope - Reinforced concrete driveway aprons shall slope upward toward the property they serve so that the sidewalk grade is met or the apron rises six (6") inches in the first five (5') feet behind the curb. 6. Water Meter Boxes - Water meter boxes shall not be placed in driveways. A fee of one hundred fifty dollars ($150.00) shall be charged to cover the relocation of ineters and services in order to comply with this section. C � .�_�� RES�DE�1'TIA�. DRIVES PLAC� EN _ _ � - - � . �- � 5� O � CURB INLET W Q $ UTILITY POLE/METER/ � FIRE HYDRENT R . U • ---�T-- - \ ��:� B FIG. 20.1 � A B C D E R F _ (Min) (Min) (Min) Residential Residential 30 ' 12 ' -25 ' 50 ' S ' -10 ' 10 ' Residential Collector 50 ' " 50 ' " . " Collector Residential 50 ' " 100 ' " " Collector Collector 50 ' " 100 ' " " Minor Arterial Residential 100 ' " 120 ' " " Minor Arterial Collector 100 ' " 120 ' " " C. f �. '� R F R � NON RESIDENTIAL � DRIVE REPLACEMENT R 5�MIN. ° ` � CURB INLET FIGURE 20.2 E UTILITY POLE/METER/ FIRE HYDRANT . y 5 �N� � D q R . C � R _ � B ; � A g � D� E F2 R3 Collector Collector ` 100) 20 '-40 ' (100, �20n, 20 ' Collector Minor Arterial " n „ ,; „ Collector Major Arterial �� „ ' „ Minor Arterial Collector 12p � �� 12� , ,< <� Minor Arterial Minor Arterial �� „ � „ „ Minor Arterial Major Arterial " �� .. „ ,� Major Arterial Collector 150 ' " 150 ' " �� • Major Arterial Minor Arterial �' �� ,� „ Major Arterial Major Arterial " �� ,. „ ,� Note : 1 . Industrial D/W 30 ' -40 ' 2 . Industrial D/W 25 ' 3 . Industrial D/W R = 25 '' � � r JOINT USE DRIVES R.. �- � ( R: ; � � � A B - ' FIG. 20.3 . a B Residential Drive 9 ' Min. 20 ' Min . Commercial 10 ' Min . 20 ' Min . Industrial 10 ' Min. 30 ' Min . One Way Ingress 10 ' Min. 22 ' Min. � One Way Egress 10 ' Min. 20 ' Min. � I�"'"" �- �; ; � NON RESIDEBVTIAL DRIVES O�fE WAY OPERA410N � 2�� 22� , � 8� 10� FIG. 20.4 � N01V RESIDEIVTIAL DRIVES O�IE WAY OPERA'�10 �1 � 60 ANGIJLAR �� . -�---- 8'-10� 2� �6' �6�� 5� � 5� FIG.20.5 � � I ° FUNCT10��1AL BOUNDARIES � , , � I OF INTERSECT10�1S �� FIGURE 20.6 � ( ' � I � 75' ( I MEDIAN CUTS I I FUNCTIONAL BOUNDARIES_,_ � � � � � " 1�1TERSECTiOiV `� C�NFLICT AREA 20� FIGURE 20.7 � C F CT EA� � �