§ 40-871. Pedestrian facilities internal to site required.

(a)

Required. Internal to each building site, any new development unless exempted from this section shall provide safe routes of pedestrian access between points of departure and destinations, in the form of an internal sidewalk system. Pedestrian access must be provided to individual developments and each establishment within the development. When multiple buildings are proposed on an individual site, they shall be linked with on site pedestrian walkways.

(b)

Connections. The internal sidewalk system shall connect to the public sidewalk system along streets and highways, where it exists or is planned, or where required by the Planning Commission via site and design plan approval. The internal sidewalk system shall also connect to any sidewalk systems on abutting private properties or provide for such connections in their absence.

(c)

Design. Pedestrian ways shall be well defined and take as direct a path as possible. The Planning Commission through site and design review may require that automobile access ways be separated from pedestrian access ways. Pedestrians shall in any event have the right-of-way over automobile travel within interior portions of development sites.

(d)

Crossings. On any particular development site subject to this section, where pedestrian circulation crosses vehicular routes, a change in grade, materials, textures or colors, or appropriate striping or demarcation, shall be provided to emphasize the point of intersection between pedestrians and vehicles and improve its visibility and safety. For instance, brick pavers and other special paving materials can help to distinguish pedestrian walkway surfaces from vehicular access ways.

(e)

Width specifications. All walkways internal to the site shall be a minimum of five feet wide, except for walkways serving individual single-family residences, which shall be a minimum of three feet wide.

(f)

Applicability and exemption. This section shall not apply to the construction of any detached, single-family residence on an individual lot, but it shall apply to any lot that is contained within a final subdivision plat approved under chapter 30 and to any lots that are a part of a larger development which received site and design plan approval and which required sidewalks internal to each single-family lot.

(Code 1997, § 40-1407; Ord. of 2-6-2012, § 1(40-1407))