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Introduced by:
Temp. #636
Rev. 9/28/81
11/ 5/81 11/13/81
12/15/81 12/30/81
1/19/82
CITY OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA 2/10/82
2/24/82
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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 18-3 OF THE TAMARAC CITY
CODE PERTAINING TO OFF STREET PARKING DESIGN STANDARDS BY
MODIFYING SAID STANDARDS, AND AMENDING SECTION 18-4 OF THE
TAMARAC CITY CODE PERTAINING TO PARKING BAY DIMENSIONS BY
MODIFYING SAID DIMENSIONS; PROVIDING FOR CODIFICATION;
PROVIDING REPEALER; PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY OF INVALID
PROVISIONS; AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TAMARAC, FLORIDA:
SECTION 1: Section 18-3 of the Tamarac City Code is amended to read
as follows:
18-3 PARKING LOT DESIGN - GENERAL REQUIREMENTS
1. Miscellaneous Provisions
a. For the purpose of this ordinance, all off-street parking
spaces shall be drained and paved as provided for in Section 24-14 of the City
Code, as amended from time to time, except that six inches (compacted
thickness) of limerock base shall be allowable instead of eight inches.
b. The project designer shall provide a sufficient combination
of lane width and edge of pavement radii to allow all passenger vehicle
turning movements (into, out of, and within the site) to occur without
encroaching into other lanes. The minimum edge of pavement radii for
passenger vehicles shall be 20 feet unless excess lane widths are provided and
an alternate design is approved by the City Engineer. Alternate design shall
show design vehicle paths on scale drawings.
c. The paths for turning movements of loading and emergency
vehicles shall also be indicated on scale drawings. These paths may encroach
onto other lanes but may not leave the paved surface or cross over parking
stalls.
d. All parking spaces, except in residential districts, shall
be at a 30°, 45' or 60° angle as shown in figure A, except that the Planning
Commission may recommend and the City Council may waive this provision in
accordance with the provisions of Article 18-9, as the same may be amended
from time to time, to allow (0°) or (90°) degree angle parking.
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e. Minimum parking stall dimensions shall be as shown on figure
B and each stall shall be marked by a painted four inch wide line on each side.
The width of the stall shall be measured from center line to center line of the
painted lines. Each stall shall be provided with wheel stops, as per figure B,
except as provided otherwise in Section 18.3.2b.
f. All parking bays shall have a forward means of egress, except
that all 900 parking bays less than ten cars in length without a forward means
of egress shall have a six (6') foot backup area at the end of the bay in lieu
of a forward means of egress.
g. Handicap spaces shall comply with Section 18-7 of the City
Code as may be amended from time to time.
h. A minimum distance of twenty-five (25') feet is required
between the right-of-way line and parallel interior drives.
i. A minimum backup distance of 20' is required between property
lines or interior drives and the first parking stall as indicated on figure A.
2. Landscaping
a. All off-street parking areas for all uses except
single-family residences shall be landscaped in accordance with Chapter 6 of the
City Code, as amended from time to time. The Beautification Committee and the
Council shall determine from the landscaping plan submitted, whether the
requirements of the City Code have been met.
b. Wheelstops or continuous concrete curbs shall protect
landscaped areas from encroachment by vehicles. A landscaped strip with a
continuous concrete curb may be provided instead of wheel stops. Said strip
shall be 7' wide except for 300 parking, when it shall be 6' wide, for all
internal parking bays.
3. Separation from Walkways and Streets
Off-street parking spaces shall be separated from walkways,
sidewalks, streets, or alleys by a wall, fence, six inch curb or required
landscaping. Marked directional lanes and controls such as signs, change of
grade or other devices to mark points of turn to separate parking areas, shall
be used to control traffic movement.
4. Drive-in Window Stacking Lanes
Banks, Savings and Loans, and Restaurants having drive-in window
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facilities are required to provide one hundred (100') feet stacking lanes for
each window as required in Section 28-171 of the City Code, as amended from time
to time, free of adjacent parking stalls and associated back-up lanes.
5. Markings and curbing
a. Parking lots shall be marked by painted lines or raised
concrete curbs or other means to indicate individual spaces.
b. Posted signs and markers shall be used as necessary to insure
sufficient traffic operation of the lot.
c. All painted lines, curbs,wheelstops and sign markings shall
be maintained in a legible condition.
d. All ingress and egress lanes shall be marked by appropriate
painted lines, arrows and stop signs. The arrows shall be painted with plastic
silicone reflective paint.
e. All painted lines and signs shall be maintained in a clearly
legible condition. Curb and wheelstops shall be maintained unbroken and in
place..
f. Portland Cement Concrete curbing or combination curb and
gutter shall be installed in parking areas and for their appurtenant
improvements.
6. Lighting
Adequate parking lot lighting shall be provided and maintained in
accordance with Section 18-3.1 of the City Code, as amended from time to time.
SECTION 2: Section 18-4 of the Tamarac City Code is hereby amended
to read as follows:
18-4 DESIGN STANDARDS
1. Definitions.
a. Driveway. An area that connects the parking aisles of a
parking lot to the public right-of-way, to a private street, or to another major
driveway.
b. Driveway Entrance. The portion of a driveway which immediately
32 abuts the public right-of-way or a private street.
33 c. Full Circulation Parking Lot. A parking lot design which
34 permits a car entering a parking lot to circulate in front of all parking stalls
35 and restart the same movement again without using the public right -of- way.
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d. Off -Street Loading Area. An area provided off the public
right-of-way for the temporary parking of trucks being loaded or unloaded.
e. Parking Aisle. The area immediately adjacent to the car
parking stalls which permits maneuvering of the cars entering and leaving a
parking stall, and which connects the parking stalls to the driveway.
f. Parking Stall. The space that is necessary to park a car,
excluding aisles and driveways.
g. Partial Circulation Parking Lot. A parking lot design which
permits a car entering a parking lot to circulate in front of all parking stalls
without using the public right-of-way.
h. Trafficway A public right-of-way, the primary, though not
necessarily the sole purpose or use of which is to facilitate through movement
of vehicles in substantial volume, rather than the providing of direct access to
abutting properties as delineated on Broward County Trafficways Plan or the
City's Transportation Element as may be amended.
2. General Design Requirements.
Internal site circulation shall follow a functional classification
and hierarchical design criteria to assure that the movements between the public
right-of-way, which is the high-speed movement facility, and the parking stall,
which is the terminal facility, are conducted in an efficient and orderly form.
All streams of departing traffic from the parking stalls in a parking lot shall
be assembled and delivered to an internal collector facility that combines them
into a few concentrated streams which will then be connected to the public
right-of-way at a few properly spaced access locations.
3. Functional Elements of On -Site Circulation System.
Car parking stalls, parking aisles, driveways, reservoir areas and
entrances are the basic functional elements of the on -site circulation system.
4. Parking Stalls and Aisles.
a. All required parking stalls shall have direst and unobstructed
32 access from a parking aisle.
33 b. No parking aisle in a parking lot shall be greater than three
34. hundred and fifty (350) feet in length.
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c. Access for emergency fire vehicles shall be in accordance with
Fire Protection Standards of the NFPA.
d. All off-street parking areas shall be so arranged and marked as
to provide for orderly safe loading, unloading, parking and storage of vehicles
with individual parking stalls clearly defined with directional arrows and
traffic signs provided as necessary for traffic control.
5. Driveways.
a. All parking aisles shall connect to a driveway.
b. A parking lot which exceeds sixty (60) parking stalls shall be
designed with at least one two-way directional driveway loop system connecting
the entrances to the parking stalls and the principal building.
c. The minimum distance from a driveway to a principal building or
property line shall be five (5) feet.
d. Two-way driveways shall be a minimum of twenty-four (24) feet
wide. Required widths shall be increased if the City Engineer determines that
the number of parking stalls connected or the number of trips generated
justifies such increase.
e. Any off-street parking facility shall have either driveway
approaches of sufficient width to allow for two-way traffic, or one-way
driveways connected to aisles, parking areas or maneuvering areas in such a
manner as to permit traffic to both enter and leave the property, facing
forward, at the same time. A driveway which is only wide enough for one-way
traffic shall not be used for two-way access.
6. Circulation Design. A parking lot abutting a traf ficway shall be
designed for full circulation. A parking lot abutting a street other than a
trafficway may be designed for partial circulation.
7. Number and Location of Driveway Entrances. In order to provide the
maximum safety with the least interference to the traffic flow on public
streets, and to provide ease and convenience of ingress and egress to private
property, the number and location of driveways shall be regulated relative to
32 the intensity or size of the property served and the amount of frontage which
33 that property has on a given street as follows:
34 a. One (1) driveway shall be permitted for ingress and egress
35 purposes to a single property or development.
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b. Two (2) or both driveways entering on a particular street from
a single property or development may be permitted if all other requirements of
this section are met and if the distance between any existing or proposed
driveway equals or exceeds two hundred (200) feet.
c. Three (3) driveways entering on a particular street from a
single property or development may be permitted if all other requirements of
this Section are met and if the distance between any existing or proposed
driveway equals or exceeds two hundred (200) feet.
d. In general, not more than three (3) driveways will be permitted
from a single property or development. However, in the case of extensive
property development (property exceeding ten (10) acres in total land area or
containing more than one thousand (1,000) parking stalls), additional driveways
may be permitted provided all other requirements of this Section are met and the
minimum distance between adjacent driveways equals or exceeds three hundred
(300) feet.
8. Driveway Entrance Width According to Type.
a. Ramp -type or Swale -type Driveway entrance. Except as provided
in b below, all driveways shall be constructed with the standard ramp -type or
swale-type driveway entrance and shall conform to the following width
requirements:
Minimum Maximum
one-way 12 feet 16 feet
two-way 24 feet 48 feet
(widths to be measured at the street right-of-way line)
The width of the curb opening shall not exceed the driveway width by more than
five (5) feet on each side.
b. Street -type Driveway Entrance. Construction of a street- type
driveway shall be required for entrances of any development which includes a
parking area for three hundred (300) or more vehicles, or where the development
anticipates substantial loading or trucking operations. Such driveway shall be
a minimum width of thirty (30) feet and a maximum width of sixty (60) feet.
9. Limitations on Driveway Entrance Improvements.
a. No driveway shall be constructed in the radius return of an
intersection.
b. No driveway shall be constructed closer than twenty-five (25)
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feet to the intersection of street right-of-way lines.
c. No driveway entrance shall include any public facility such as
traffic signal standards, catch basins, crosswalks, loading zones, utility
poles, fire alarm supports, meter boxes, sewer cleanouts, or other similar type
structures.
d. Within the right-of-way limits, the maximum=. recommended
driveway grade is approximately three (3) percent. The maximum allowable grade
is 4.2 percent or one-half (1/2) inch per foot. The maximum slope immediately
beyond the right-of-way line shall not change in excess of five (5) percent for
either angle of approach or breakover angle.
e. Existing driveway approaches shall not be relocated or altered
without approval by Council for relocation or alteration of such driveway
approaches. When the use of any driveway approach is changed, making any
portion or all of the driveway approach unnecessary, the developer of the
abutting property shall obtain a permit from the City to abandon the driveway
approach and shall, at his expense, replace all necessary curbs, gutters, and
sidewalks.
10. Sight Distance.
a. Cross -Visibility requirements at the Intersection of Driveways
and Public Right -of -Way. If a driveway intersects a public right- of -way, there
shall be no sight obstruction within a triangular area of property on both sides
of a driveway formed by the intersection of each side of the driveway and the
public right-of-way line with two sides of each triangle being ten (10) feet in
length from the point of intersection and the third side being a line connecting
the ends of the two other sides.
b. Cross -Visibility Requirements at Pedestrian Crosswalks and
nthor Arpas of Pedestrian Concentration. If a crosswalk intersects a vehicular
29 access isle, driveway or a public right-of-way, there shall be no sight
obstruction within a triangular area of property on both sides of a crosswalk or
walkway formed by the intersection of each side of the walkway and the public
32 right-of-way or aisle with two sides of each triangle being ten (10) feet in
33 length from the point of intersection and the third side being a line connecting
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35 c. Sight Triangles.
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1) Within the triangular areas described above, it shall not be
permissible to install, set out or maintain, or to allow the installation,
setting out or maintenance of, either temporarily or permanently, any vehicular
parking space, sign, wall, hedge, shrubbery, tree, earth mound, natural growth
or other obstruction of any kind which obstructs cross -visibility at a level
between thirty (30) inches and eight (8) feet above the level of the center of
the adjacent intersection.
Any wall or fence within the sight triangle must be
constructed in such a manner as to provide adequate cross -visibility over or
through the structure between thirty (30) inches and eight (8) feet in height
above the driving surface.
2) The following will be permitted within that portion of the
triangular area described above that is not in the public right-of-way:
a) Trees having limbs and foliage trimmed in such a manner
that no limbs or foliage extend into the area between thirty
(30) inches and eight (8) feet above the level of the center of
the adjacent intersection. Trees must be so located so as not
to create a traffic hazard. Landscaping except required grass
or ground cover shall not be located closer than five (5) feet
from the edge of any roadway pavement, and three (3) feet from
the edge of any alley or driveway pavement.
b) Fire hydrants, public utility poles, street markers and
traffic control devices.
11. Access for Vehicles Other Than Automobiles.
a. Structures intended for principal uses shall be made accessible
to the following type of vehicles:
Residential uses, other than
single family or duplex ........................Single Unit Truck (SU)
Commercial Uses................................Single Unit Truck and semi-
trailer (WB-40) combination
intermediate
Industrial Use.................................Single Unit Truck (SU) and
semi -trail er - full trail er
combination (WB-60)
Definitions of as well as required specifications for the above vehicle types
shall be those found in AASHTO Geometric Highway Design.
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b. All buildings other than single family or duplex residences
shall be accessible to fire apparatus from two sides. Fire engines shall be
considered as a WB-40 as defined by the AASHTO Geometric Highway Design. The
area required to meet the AASHTO design standards shall be paved or treated to
insure support to a sixteen (16) ton weight vehicle. This area shall be
maintained free of trees and bushes and shall be clearly designated for this
purpose.
c. Fire lanes shall be provided for all buildings which are set
back more than one hundred fifty (150) feet from a public road, or which
exceed thirty (30) feet in height and are set back more than fifty (50) feet
from a public road. Fire lanes shall be at least twenty (20) feet in width
with a minimum of ten (10) feet provided between the fire lane and any
adjacent building.
d. Required parking spaces, parking aisles and driveways shall
not be used as loading or parking areas for any type of vehicle including
emergency vehicles other than automobiles.
SECTION 3: Specific authority is hereby granted to codify this
ordinance.
SECTION 4: All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict
herewith are hereby repealed to the extent of such conflict.
SECTION 5: Should any section or provision of this Ordinance or
any portion thereof, or any paragraph, sentence or word be declared by a Court
of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such decision shall not affect the
validity of the remainder hereof as a whole or any part hereof, other than the
part declared to be invalid.
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SECTION 6: This Ordinance shall become effective immediately upon
its final passage.
PASSED FIRST READING this_day of
PASSED SECOND READING this�day of
ATTEST:
I HEREBY CERTIFY that I have
approved the form and correctness
of this ORDINANCE
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