22.44.140 Pedestrian circulation, access, and design.
The following general pedestrian design standards shall apply to all developments in Monroe. They should be reviewed together with Chapter 22.42 MMC, Design Standards, and other applicable chapters of this title:
A. All uses shall provide pedestrian access onto the site. Pedestrian access points shall be provided at all pedestrian arrival points to the development including the property lines, adjacent lots, abutting street intersections, crosswalks and at transit stops. Pedestrian access shall be located as follows:
1. Access points at property edges and to adjacent lots shall be coordinated with existing development to provide circulation patterns between developments.
2. Residential developments shall provide links between cul-de-sacs or groups of buildings to allow pedestrian access from within the development and from adjacent developments to activity centers, parks, common tracts, open spaces, schools or other public facilities, transit stops and public streets.
B. Pedestrian walkways shall form an on-site circulation system that minimizes the conflict between pedestrians and traffic at all points of pedestrian access to on-site parking and building entrances. Pedestrian walkways shall be provided when the pedestrian access point or any parking space is more than seventy-five feet from the building entrance or principal on-site destination and as follows:
1. All developments which contain more than one building shall provide walkways between the principal entrances of the buildings.
2. All nonresidential buildings within the same development and set back more than one hundred feet from the public right-of-way shall install pedestrian walkways through parking areas and parking garages, as shown below in Figure 22.44.140: Pedestrian Walkways in Parking Areas:
Figure 22.44.140. Pedestrian Walkways in Parking Areas
C. Pedestrian access and walkways shall meet the following minimum design standards:
1. Access and walkways shall be well lit and physically separated from driveways and parking spaces by landscaping, berms, barriers, grade separation or other means to protect pedestrians from vehicular traffic.
2. Access and walkways shall have a minimum of sixty inches of unobstructed width and meet the surfacing standards of the Monroe road standards for walkways or sidewalks.
3. Access shall be usable by mobility impaired persons and shall be designed and constructed to be easily located by the sight impaired pedestrian by either grade change, texture or other equivalent means.
4. A crosswalk shall be required when a walkway crosses a driveway or a paved area accessible to vehicles.
5. Wherever walkways are provided, raised crosswalks or speed bumps shall be located at all points where a walkway crosses the lane of vehicle travel.
D. Blocks in excess of six hundred feet shall be provided with a crosswalk at the approximate midpoint of the block, or as the public works director determines to be appropriate.
E. Compliance with Chapter 22.42 MMC, Design Standards, for parking lot design, circulation, landscaping, and other applicable design standards. (Ord. 005/2019 § 10 (Exh. B))