06/05/2002 PLANNING BOARD Minutes

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i e Vertical curbs shall be of granite or cast-in.place concrete. Asphalt vertical curbs shall not be permitted, Project driveways shall be located at least 125 feet from any street intersection or any other driveway, measured from driveway center lines and from strut sidelines i.e. sidelines extended to the point of intersection with the sideline of the intersecting street, ignor+ng corner radii). only one driveway exit and one driveway entrance may be located along any street abutting the project, unless the Board determines that a greater number will provide a safer and more efficient access and egress to-the property. Direct driveway access to routes 28, 11 and 130, Great Neck Road North and South, Great Oak load, Red Brook Toad, Quinaquisset Ave., Cotuit toad, South Sandwich Road, Lowell Road, Old Barnstable toad west of Lowell Road, onna's Lane and Job's Fishing Road shall be prohibited inhere alternate access from other streets is available. Where a project has frontage on more than one street, driveway access shall generally be required to be from-the street.or streets with lower AADT. Driveway or street interconnections between adjacent projects shall be required wherever feasible in order to improve traffic circulation and reduce turning movements and travel on abutting major streets. Inhere a project abuts vacant property in the same zoning district, it shall provide f 'r future.interconnection to said property at points approved by the Board. Shared driveways are encouraged,, where feasible!. Paved sidewalks with a minimum width of four feet shall be required on one 1 side of streets having fire hundred oo to one thousand 1,000 trips per day and on both sides of streets having over one thousand 1,000 trips per day. The Board may also require sidewalks on other streets Sidewalks shall be separated from any roadway travel lane by a minimum of five feet, and from any parking lane or parking bay by a vertical barrier curb. Where required by the Planning Board, bicycle facilities shall be constructed along such streets in the form of two paved shoulder bike lanes with a width of at least four feet each or a' paged bike path or shared use path of sufficient width to accommodate expected use. Bike paths or shared use paths shall be separated from any roadway travel lane by a minimum of hve feet, and from any parking lane or parking bay by a vertical barrier curb. Bicycle facility design, signage, marking, as well`as bicycle parking facilities shall be consistent � g , with the guidelines contained in the ommon r ealth of Massachusetts' publication Building Better Bicycling,, latest edition. Pavement thickness and structure, subgrade design, roadway drainage and other rented design features for roadways, sidewalks and bicycle facilities -shall require the approval of the Board, and shall generally follow the requirements of the Board's Rules and Rr'ons Governing the Subdivision of Land, B. Parking Facilities. Parking shall be provided-in conformance with the requirements of the llashpee Zoning By-law. Parking in excess of those.requirements is generally discouraged.