Legal Documents of Sweetwater

In order to promote the safety of the motorist and pedestrian and to minimize traffic congestion and conflict by reducing the points of contact, the following regulations shall apply:

1. A point of access for vehicles onto a street shall not exceed forty (40) feet in width.
2. There shall be no more than two (2) points of access to any one (1) public street for each four hundred (400) feet of lot frontage, or fraction thereof; provided, however, that lots less than eighty (80) feet in width shall have no more than one (1) point of access to anyone (1) public street.
3. Where two (2) driveways are provided for one (1) lot frontage, the clear distance between driveways shall not be less than twenty-five (25) feet.
4. No point of access shall be allowed within ten (10) feet of the right-of-way line of any public intersection.
5. No curbs on city streets or rights-of-way shall be cut or altered without written approval of the street department, or if a state highway, a permit must be obtained from the Tennessee Department of Highways.
6. Cases requiring variances relative to the above provisions shall be heard and acted upon by the board of zoning appeals, provided, further, that no curb cuts for off-street automobile storage or parking space shall be permitted where the arrangement would require that vehicles back directly into a public street. (1982 Code, § 11-401, as amended by Ord. #604, Sept. 1987)