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All driveways installed, altered, changed, replaced, or extended after the effective date of this Ordinance shall meet the following requirements:

(a) Openings for vehicular ingress and egress shall not exceed thirty (30) feet at the street line and thirty-five (35) feet at the roadway.

(b) Vehicle entrances and exits to drive-in theaters, banks, restaurants, motels, funeral homes, vehicle sales and service, car washes, service stations, garages, or public parking lots shall be not less than three hundred (300) feet from any pedestrian entrance or exit to a school, college, university, church, hospital, park playground, library, or other place of public assembly.

(c) No direct public or private access shall be permitted to the existing or proposed rights-of-ways of freeways, interstate highways, and interchanges and their entrances or exit ramps nor within 500 feet of the most remote end of the taper of the entrances or exit ramp. (see illustration #3).

(d) No direct public or private access shall be permitted to any existing or proposed Federal, State Trunk, or County Trunk Highway within 250 feet of its intersection with another street or highway right-of-way.

(e) Access barriers, such as curbing, fencing, ditching, landscaping, or other topographic barriers, shall be erected to prevent unauthorized vehicle ingress or egress to the above specified streets or highways.

(f) Temporary access to the rights-of-way in section (c), (d) and (e) may be granted by the Board of Adjustments after review and recommendation by the highway agencies having jurisdiction. Such access permit shall be temporary, revocable, and subject to any conditions required and shall be issued for a period not to exceed 12 months. [Code § 12.13-4.]