Ord 2018-002/replacement of Subpart B (Land Development Code) and Subpart C (SmartCode) with a new Subpart B (San Marcos Development Code “Code SMTX”) including Appendix A - E (Design Manual) and consider amendments to the City’s Preferred Scenario Map an

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x SUBDIVISION m C. All Driveways 5. Driveways must be located a minimum of three and one half(3.5)feet from the side lot line. However,a driveway 1. All driveway design and construction must comply with may be located on the lot line closer than three and one this Section, or the Fire Code when conflict exists. half(3.5)feet if it is shared with an adjacent lot. 2. Driveway dimensions measured at the street right-of-way 6. Parking and driveway areas shall not constitute more than shall be in accordance with the following table: forty(40%)percent of the area between the front building line and the front property line. TABLE 3.2 DRIVEWAY DIMENSIONS E. Driveways for Nonresidential, Mixed Use and Residential WIDTH RADIUS Greater than 6 Off-Street Spaces MIN MAX MAX 1. If on-site parking areas can be accessed from an improved Residential up to 6 off-street parking 10' 18' 5' alley,access from the alley is required and new curb cuts spaces along the public right-of-way are not allowed. Residential 7+ off-street parking 12' 16' 10' spaces(one-way) 2. Driveways are allowed based on the property frontage of • Residential 7+ off-street parking20' 24' 10' any street.Additional driveways require approval from the spaces(two-way) Responsible Official. Mixed Use/Commercial(one-way) 12' 18' 10' 3. Driveways accessing up to eighty(80)foot wide street Mixed Use/Commercial(two-way) 20' 32' 15' rights-of-way must be spaced two hundred (200)feet Industrial/Service 30' 40' 30' apart centerline to centerline and driveways accessing more than an eighty(80)foot wide street right-of-way must be spaced three hundred(300)feet apart centerline 3. The Responsible Official may require wider driveways to centerline. where unusual traffic, grade or site conditions exist. 4. A driveway serving any non-residential use or multi-unit D. Driveways for Residential Use Up to 6 Off-Street Parking living shall not be permitted to access neighborhood Spaces per Lot yield or neighborhood local streets unless the proposed access point is the lesser of three hundred (300)feet from 1. When an alley is provided,all vehicular access shall take an avenue, boulevard or parkway,or the intersection of place from the alley.Access may be taken from the side another public street. street on corner lots. 2. All lots forty(40)feet or less in width platted after the 5. Offers of cross-access shall be prohibited where a effective date of this Development Code are required to proposed nonresidential use or multi unit living may take vehicular access from an alley. The Responsible potentially obtain access from a neighborhood or residential street, unless the resulting access meets the Official may waive this requirement for minor subdivisions provisions of subsection 4 above. platted under Section 3.2.4.1. 6. Driveways may intersect a street no closer than fifty(50) 3. No residential lot may have more than two (2) driveways feet from the intersection of two(2)street rights-of-way, on the same street. Multiple driveways that service one (1) not including an alley. lot may be no closer than forty(40)feet to each other. 4. Non-alley loaded driveways may intersect a street no 7. Nothing in this section shall prevent all site access to any closer than twenty(20)feet from the intersection of two property. (2) street rights-of-way. F. Cross-Access 3:32 San Marcos Development Code Adopted April 17,2018