§ 5.1. Access.

5.1.1 Future access. When land is subdivided into larger parcels than ordinary building lots, such parcels shall be arranged and designed so as to allow for the opening of future streets and to provide access to those areas not presently served by streets.

5.1.2 Guaranteeing access to adjoining parcels. No subdivision shall be designed so as to completely eliminate street access to adjoining parcels of land. Every development shall be designed to facilitate access to adjoining properties that are developed or anticipated to be developed in a manner substantially similar to the subject property. Locations of interparcel access shall be as required by and subject to the approval of the Paulding County Department of Transportation (hereafter referred to in this article as "the department.").

5.1.3 Vehicular access from public street required. Any lot required to provide minimum frontage by the zoning district in which the lot is located shall provide vehicular access directly from a public street along the frontage or along any other property line that abuts a public street, except as provided in section 5.1.5.

5.1.4 Private streets. Private streets as may be approved under the provisions of these regulations or other ordinances or regulations of Paulding County shall be constructed to the roadway construction standards of the department, as contained herein.

5.1.5 Vehicular access easements.

1)

Vehicular access easements may be provided from a public street indirectly via easement in any one or more of the following circumstances:

(a)

The property is not required to provide a minimum frontage by the applicable zoning district, provided that the easement shall be in a location and the access driveway shall have a width and alignment acceptable to the fire services division and the department.

(b)

The property is a buildable lot of record, as defined herein, but does not meet the minimum frontage requirement of the applicable zoning district. The property must be served by an exclusive access easement, which shall be limited to the provision of access to only one principal use or structure.

(c)

The access easement serves a single-family residence on a lot which is otherwise a buildable lot of record, and which is sharing a common driveway with no more than one other single-family residence.

(d)

The access easement was lawfully established as such under the code, ordinances or regulations of Paulding County prior to the adoption of these development regulations.

(e)

The access easement coincides with a private roadway approved under the code, ordinances or regulations of Paulding County. All new private roadways must be constructed to the roadway standards of these regulations, and their ownership and perpetual maintenance responsibility by private party(s) must be clearly established on the final plat of the development.

(f)

The access easement serves a buildable lot of record which meets the minimum frontage requirements of the zoning ordinance, but at which point the access is not achieved or prohibited along the available frontage.