§ 5.6. Sidewalks.
Where constructed, sidewalks shall be in accordance with the Public Works Design Standards Manual, as approved by the council of the City of Virginia Beach and the standards established by the Americans With Disabilities Act.
(a)
Sidewalks shall be constructed on both sides of arterial or collector streets. The director of planning or his designee may require additional sidewalk width to match existing improvements.
(b)
Sidewalks shall be constructed on both sides of minor streets within subdivisions proposed for multiple-family or commercial use and may be required on one (1) or both sides of minor streets in subdivisions proposed for industrial use, if the director of planning finds such requirement necessary in view of desirable continuity of flow of substantial pedestrian traffic. The director of planning or his designee may require additional sidewalk width to match existing improvements.
(c)
Sidewalks shall be constructed on one (1) side of each minor street within subdivisions proposed for one-family, two-family or townhouse residential use and where minimum lot width requirements as specified in the zoning ordinance [6] are less than one hundred (100) feet. As an exception to this requirement, no sidewalk is required where not more than twenty-five (25) dwelling units could be constructed on property served by the street. This applies only if the street could not reasonably be extended to serve more dwelling units. The director of planning or his designee may require additional sidewalk width to match existing improvements.
(d)
No sidewalks shall be required on minor streets in districts zoned for one-family residential use where the minimum lot width requirements as specified in the zoning ordinance [7] are one hundred (100) feet or more.
(e)
Supplementary to the above requirements and notwithstanding any exceptions or exclusions made therein, where sidewalks required above fail to provide adequate access to schools, along pedestrian routes where substantial concentration of school pedestrian traffic is anticipated, sidewalks forty-eight (48) inches in width shall be provided on both sides of streets along the route of such concentration and within the subdivision; provided, however:
(1)
No such sidewalks shall be required to be extended more than one-half (½) mile from the point of access to the school grounds by normal pedestrian routes, except to include the full length of a block which would otherwise have such sidewalks for only a portion of its full length;
(2)
Where the pattern of proposed and potential development is such that safe, logical and convenient routing of school pedestrian traffic requires a sidewalk on only one (1) side of the street, the director of planning may permit the provision of only one (1) such sidewalk; and
(3)
Where the director of planning finds that walkways other than in the form of sidewalks at the edges of streets would provide safe, logical and convenient routing of pedestrian traffic, such walkways, constructed in a manner found by the city engineer to be appropriate to their purpose, may substitute for such sidewalks.
(Ord. No. 2355, 11-28-95; Ord. No. 2402, 6-25-96; Ord. No. 2768, 8-5-03; Ord. No. 3621, 6-16-20)
Footnotes:--- (6) ---Cross reference— Zoning ordinance, App. A.
--- (7) ---Cross reference— Zoning ordinance, App. A.