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Z | 11 - 7 A. Parking areas shall be designed so that circulation between parking stalls or aisles occurs within the designated parking lot and does not depend upon a public street or alley.as follows fFor vehicles: 1. Parking areas shall be designed so that circulation between parking stalls or aisles occurs within the designated parking lot and does not depend upon a public street or alley. 2. Parking area designs that require backing into the public street shall be prohibited, with the exception of emergency vehicles or vehicles plowing snow. 3. “Entrance only” and “exit only” signs may be required by the Department of Community Assets & Development where necessary to ensure sufficient circulation and access to a public street. 4. Cross access and circulation across adjoining parcels is required where appropriate and feasible, to be determined by the Department of Community Assets and Development Joint circulation shall be documented in a cross access and circulation easement and agreement, subject to approval by the city. B. Parking area designs that require backing into the public street shall be prohibitedFor pedestrians.: 1. Pedestrian access points shall be provided at all pedestrian arrival points to the development including the property edges, adjacent lots, abutting street intersections, crosswalks, and at transit stops if applicable. Pedestrian access shall be coordinated with existing development to provide circulation patterns between developments. 2. Planned trail connections as identified in the City’s Comprehensive Parks Plan shall be accommodated and incorporated into projects as may be necessary by the Department of Community Assets & Development. 3. Pedestrian walkways and trails shall form an on-site circulation system that minimizes the conflict between pedestrians and traffic at all points of pedestrian access to on-site parking and building entrances, and between buildings. 4. Pedestrian access and walkways shall meet the following minimum design standards: i. Access and walkways shall be luminated and physically separated from driveways and parking spaces by landscaping, berms, barriers, grade separation or other means to protect pedestrians from vehicular traffic; ii. Access and walkways shall be a minimum of six (6) feet of unobstructed width and meet City standards for surfacing of walkways or sidewalks; iii. Access shall be usable by mobility-impaired persons and shall be designed and constructed to be easily located by the sight-impaired pedestrian by either grade change, texture or other equivalent means; iv. A clearly delineated crosswalk shall be required when a walkway crosses a driveway or a paved area accessible to vehicles. Raised crosswalks or speed bumps may be required at all points where a walkway crosses the lane of vehicle travel. vi. Parking stalls shall not be located where they obstruct doorways, driveways, or pedestrian walkways. vii. In large parking lots of over 60 stalls, a combination of traffic safety islands or landscape medians, with pedestrian circulation, shall be provided to divide the parking lot into sections. No parking stall shall be over 200 feet from a median or traffic safety island with pedestrian circulation. viii. Trail designs shall meet requirements as spelled out by the Department of Community Assets & Development. Commented [HD18]: Existing language Commented [HD19]: From Low Salt Expert Commented [HD20]: From Traffic Engineer Expert Commented [HD21]: From Mixed Use district requirements Commented [HD22]: From Mixed Use district requirements