08/21/2002 PLANNING BOARD Minutes

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a . The following design standards sha'11, apply to streets which will carry two hundred o to one thousand 1,000 trips per day,-and over one thousand 1,000 trips per day (including streets adjacent to the site of the developed parcels or portions of the project or providing access to the.project): - 1, o ir000 PIS, Standards Trips Trips Design speed mph 30 40 Intersection separation 125 600 Width of lanes (feet)* 10 11 Minimum curve radius ft.) 250 460 Maximum grade (percent) Minirnumlaybutwidth(ft.) 40 50 *Lane width i-n.any industrial development, or where extensive-truck traffic is anticipated, shall be 12 feet and inside curb radius shall be a,minimurn of thirty o feet. No on-street parking -shall be allowed on such struts unless 8-foot-wide parking lanes are constructed, with a minimum length of twenty four feet per parked car, except that they may be reduced to twenty three 3 feet in length where it is demonstrated that the use served will not involve high parking turnover or a large proportion of senior citizen users or of lame vehicles. Any gutters, berms or other d r'ainage facilities shall be-in addition to the.required lane width. Vertical curbs shall be of granite or cast-in-place concrete. Asphalt vertical curbs shall not be permitted. B. Project driveways shall be located at least 125 feet from-any strut intersection or any other driveway, measured from driveway center tines and from street sidelines i.e. sidelines extended to the point of intersection with the sideline of the intersecting street, ignoring 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 safer and more efficient access and egress to the property. Unless the Board determines that such access is required on the basis of public safety considerations, direct driveway access to Routes 28, 151 and 130, Great.-Neck Road North and South, Great oak Road, fed Brook Road, Quinaquisset Ave., cotuit Toad, South Sandwich Road, Lowell Road/ old Barnstable Road west of Lowell Road, onna's Lane and Job's Fishing Ro.ad shall be prohibited where alternate access from other streets is available. Where a project has frontage on more than one +e t, driveway access shall generally be required to be from the street or streets with Iowe'r AA T. 9, 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. Where a project abuts vacant property in the same zoning district, it shall provide for future interconnection to said property at points approved by the Board. 1