PURPOSE

  1. To provide vehicular access to lots.

APPLICABILITY

  1. New driveways, driveway reconstruction, or driveway relocation.

GENERAL

  1. Driveways are not thoroughfares and cannot be used to meet the frontage requirement for lots.
  2. A single driveway may provide access for all the legally allowed primary or accessory buildings on a lot. A separate driveway for each primary or accessory building on a lot is discouraged in favor of shared driveways.
  3. On corner lots, driveways must access the parking lot or Carriage House from the secondary thoroughfare or along the side lot line.
  4. One driveway is permitted per lot of record, except;
    1. A driveway may be permitted for each Virtual Lot within a lot of record.
  5. Lots in T2 and unpaved driveways in T3 may have multiple driveways or driveways that connect at two points with the thoroughfare.

LOCATION

  1. Driveways may pass through required front, side, and rear setbacks to access permitted parking locations.
  2. Driveways, or any portion of a driveway, may not be located between the front facade of a primary building and the primary thoroughfare, except in T2.
  3. Where driveways on abutting lots are located next to each other, an effort should be made to provide vertical landscaping between the driveways to break up the visual width of the paved areas.

DESIGN

  1. Within the frontage zone driveways may not be wider than 10 ft when paved.
  2. Driveways must have a curb radius of 1 ft max when crossing a sidewalk and 2 ft max otherwise.
  3. In T4 and T5, a 12 ft max driveway is permitted by waiver to accommodate commercial vehicles. The driveway must have a curb radius of 12 ft maximum when crossing a sidewalk and 20 ft maximum otherwise.
  4. A Carriage House apron may expand to the width of the Carriage House doors, plus 5 feet, for a depth of 25 from the face of the Carriage House doors, after which point the pavement may be no wider than the maximum permitted driveway width.