HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 0644ORDINANCE NO. 644
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1382 OF THE ORDINANCE CODE
OF THE CITY OF BURLINGAME REGULATING THE LOCATION AND
WIDTH OF DRIVEWAYS
The City Council of the City of Burlingame does ordain as
follows:
SECTION 1. Section 1382 of the Ordinance Code of the City
of Burlingame is amended to read and provide as follows:
"Section 1382 Location and Width of Driveways
a. No driveway shall be constructed or reconstructed which
is less than twenty-two (22) feet from another driveway, except
that this requirement may be waived by the City Engineer in the
event that an existing driveway is so located that this require-
ment would create a hardship or where a single curb -cut is made
to provide driveways for contiguous lots or parcels of land.
b. No driveway in districts classified by this Code as
residential shall exceed 257o of the width of the lot.
c. No driveway in districts classified by this Code as
commercial or professional shall exceed 25% of the width of the
lot. When driveways are constructed on both streets on corner
lots, the total width of the driveways shall not exceed 451. of
the total of the lot frontage.
d. No driveway in districts classified by this Code as
industrial shall exceed 25% of the width of the lot or of the
total frontage where a single use is made of more than one lot or
parcel of land.
e. The City Engineer may, if the health, welfare and safety
of the public will not be unreasonably impaired, grant a special
permit for the construction of driveways having widths in excess
of those widths hereinabove provided for in this section as
follows:
(1) In residential districts he may grant a special
permit for a driveway not exceeding 7076 of the lot frontage in
order to give access to multipule garages in apartment buildings.
(2) In commercial districts he may grant a special
permit for a driveway not exceeding 70% of the lot frontage,
including the frontage on each street in the case of a corner
lot or in the case of a lot fronting on two streets, in order to
give access to areas used for the off-street parking of motor
vehicles, for off-street loading zones, or for gasoline stations.
(3) In industrial districts he may grant a special
permit for a driveway not exceeding 70% of the entire lot frontage
where off-street parking facilities are installed between the
property line and the building."
law.
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall be published as required by
C - Mayor
I, Herbert K. White, City Clerk, do hereby certify that the
foregoing ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the
City Council held on the 4th day of February , 1957,
and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held on
the 18th day of February , 1957, by the following
vote:
Ayes: Councilmen: Byrd -Johnson -Morgan -Rooth -Thayer
Noes: Councilmen: bone
Absent Councilmen: None
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