Sec. 17-701.06
Extracted standards
9 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
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- Minimum bicycle clear path width4 ft
Rumble strips are not recommended where shoulders are used by bicyclists unless there is a minimum clear path of four (4) feet in which a bicycle may operate.
- Compact area buffer hardscape percentage70 pct
In the compact area, no less than seventy (70) percent of the buffer zone shall be hardscape.
- Minimum multi-purpose trail width10 ft
Multi-purpose trails shall be no less than ten (10) feet in width.
- Paved shoulder required roadway ADT1,000 vehicles/day
paved shoulders shall be included in all new construction and reconstruction projects on roadways used by more than one thousand (1,000) vehicles per day
- Minimum sidewalk buffer zone width (no tree)3 ft
All sidewalks shall provide a minimum buffer of three (3) feet in width between the pedestrian zone and vehicle zone when no street tree is planted within the buffer
- Minimum sidewalk buffer zone width (with tree)6 ft
and a minimum of six (6) feet in width when a street tree is planted within the buffer.
- Minimum sidewalk frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. zone width2 ft
All sidewalks shall provide a minimum frontage of two (2) feet in width between the pedestrian zone and any building or structure.
- Minimum sidewalk pedestrian zone width5 ft
All sidewalks shall provide a clear, unencumbered path of no less than five (5) feet in width for the movement of pedestrian traffic.
- Suburban area buffer vegetative percentage70 pct
In the suburban area, no less than seventy (70) percent of the buffer zone shall be vegetative ground cover.
From the ordinance
The design and development of the transportation infrastructure shall improve conditions for bicycling and walking.