§ 21.50.220. Conditional use standards—Drive-in banks.

A.

Traffic access. A drive-in bank except in the B-2B (central business district intermediate) and B-2C (central business district periphery) shall be located only on a site that has direct frontage to a street which is designated as a class I or greater in the official streets and highways plan.

B.

Vehicular access lanes. Each vehicular access lane to a service station at a drive-in bank shall meet the following design standards:

1.

Each lane shall be no less than ten feet wide except at the service station customer access point.

2.

Each lane shall be no less than 100 feet in length measured from the center of the service station customer access point, however, in no case shall the drive-in bank be required to provide queuing space in excess of 20 vehicles excluding the service stations. Each queuing vehicle space shall be 20 feet in length.

3.

Each lane shall be designed so that vehicles waiting to use a station shall not protrude into an alley, driveway or public right-of-way.

C.

Paving. All parking areas, driveways and vehicular access lanes associated with a drive-in bank shall be paved.

D.

Drainage plan. The drainage plan for the site of a drive-in bank shall be shown on the site plan. A drainage plan which carries water off the site shall avoid excessive runoff from the site to adjoining property and shall be subject to the approval of the public works department.

E.

Landscaping. All areas on the site that are not devoted to use by structures, driveways, walkways, access lanes to service stations, parking or other authorized installations shall be landscaped as follows:

1.

Buffer landscaping shall be planted along each lot line which abuts a residential use or district;

2.

All areas devoted to parking or access lanes shall be visually screened by a wooden fence of a height no less than six feet or other screening structures and devices found to be equivalent and appropriate for the site by the planning and zoning commission; and

3.

All other areas shall be planted with visual enhancement landscaping.

F.

Impact on adjacent uses. A drive-in bank shall be designed so as to avoid an unreasonable increase of noise or air pollution for any adjacent residential use or district.

(AO No. 85-216; AO No. 97-59, § 1, 7-1-97; AO No. 98-111, § 1, 8-18-98)