Ordinances-2003-260

a. Access points shall be located so that ingress and egress maneuvers will not severely degrade safe and efficient traffic movements and operations on the on specified access restricted prescribed roadways or other roadways as specified by the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City of Tiffin City Council. b. Access points shall be located, to the maximum extent feasible, at the point of optimum sight distance along the abutting property frontage. Placement of an access point on a horizontal curve or just below the high point of a crest vertical curve should be avoided. c. Any vehicular operations for which sight distance is inadequate (e.g. left turn entry or exit) will be prohibited. If a safe sight distance is not available at any point along the frontage of a property, one of the following procedures shall be utilized: i. Develop access to another roadway ii. Develop indirect access via a frontage road iii. Develop indirect access via the acquisition of an access easement from an adjacent property. d. Whenever possible, access should be provided via existing cross street in lieu of additional prescribed roadway access points. e. Access to a prescribed roadway should be provided via existing cross street in lieu of additional prescribed roadway access points. f. Where an existing access facility is on the opposite side of the prescribed roadway from an abutting property from which access is being requested which has inadequate frontage along the prescribed roadway to allow for the proper alignment with the existing access facility i. the proposed access would not comply with other conditions of this policy ii. the abutting property for which access is being requested has inadequate frontage along the prescribed roadway to allow for the proper alignment with the existing access facility iii. the alignment of the existing and proposed access facilities would be detrimental to traffic flow, result in