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6.1 General to All Zoning Districts <br />9 <br /> 1. Unless otherwise specified in the specific Zoning District standards in Sections 6.2 through 6.8, driveway access and off-street loading and unloading may be along General Frontages only. 2. Unless otherwise specified in the specific Zoning District standards in Sections 6.2 through 6.8 or through permitted adjustments, driveway and off-street loading and unloading may be located with access along a Pedestrian-Friendly Frontage street only if the property has no access to either a General Frontage street or joint use easement to an adjoining property with direct driveway access to any other street. 3. Unless otherwise specified in the specific Zoning District standards in Sections 6.2 through 6.8 or through permitted adjustments, driveways and off-street loading and unloading may be located with access along a Pedestrian Priority Frontage street only if the property has no access to either a Pedestrian-Friendly or General Frontage Street or joint use easement to an adjoining property with direct access to any other street. 4. Along Pedestrian Priority and Pedestrian-Friendly Frontages, driveway spacing shall be limited to one driveway per each block face or per 200 feet of block face for blocks greater than 400 feet in length. 5. Shared driveways, joint use easements or joint access easements shall be required to adjoining properties when driveway and service access is off a Pedestrian Priority Frontage or Pedestrian-Friendly Frontage. 6. Service and loading/unloading areas shall be screened per standards in Section 10.0. 7. Unless required to meet minimum fire access or service access standards all commercial, mixed-use and multi-family residential driveways shall be a maximum of twenty feet (20’) in width. Driveways used for service access (trash, fire, deliveries, etc.) shall be a maximum of thirty feet (30’) in width. Driveways wider than twenty-four feet (24’) in width shall only be located off of General Frontage Streets. Driveways along County controlled roadways shall meet Ramsey County Standards or the City’s adopted standards. 8. Additional easements may be required if shared driveways or access agreements are established. 9. Residential Driveways and Garages: a. Unless required to meet minimum fire access or service access standards, driveways for Single-Family Residential Use Buildings shall be a maximum of twelve feet (12’) in width at the curb cut. b. Garages for Residential Buildings shall be located on streets with General Frontage or at the rear of residential buildings. c. If front-loaded garages are utilized on residential uses, each bay of the garage shall be no greater than twenty-four feet (24’) wide and set back at least three feet (3’) behind the front façade line, unless a front porch meets the requirements of Section 6.1(c)(iii)(9)(d) below. Front-loaded garages on residential lots less than fifty feet (50’)