Los Angeles County Municipal Code Part 1 Access

A.

Each street providing access to lots within a division of land shall connect directly or through one or more other streets to a highway which is shown on the Highways Plan and which is maintained and open to public travel. Each route of access to a highway which is shown on the Highway Plan shall be adequate to accommodate the composition and volume of vehicular traffic generated by the land uses which it serves.

B.

In determining the adequacy of a route of access, the advisory agency shall consider the potential for blockage of the route by flood, fire or landslide and the effect of such blockage on the safe evacuation of future users and occupants of the division and on the deployment of fire equipment or other services under emergency conditions. The advisory agency may disapprove a design which makes use of a residential street as a route of access to industrial, commercial or other divisions of land generating traffic which would conflict with the residential character of the street.

(Ord. 85-0168 § 1, 1985; Ord. 10485 § 2, 1972: Ord. 4478 Art. 4 § 40, 1945.)

A.

If a street or street system is restricted to a single route of access to a highway shown on the Highway Plan, except for a limited secondary highway, which is maintained and open to public travel, whether at the point of intersection with the highway or at some point distant from the highway, the street or street system shall serve not more than:

150 dwelling units where the restriction is designed to be permanent and the street or street system does not traverse a wildland area which is subject to hazard from brush or forest fire;

75 dwelling units where the restriction is designed to be permanent and the street or street system traverses a wildland area which is subject to hazard from brush or forest fire;

300 dwelling units, where the restriction is subject to removal through future development.

B.

If the roadway paving on that portion of the street or street system forming the restriction is less than 36 feet in width and is not to be widened to 36 feet or more as a part of the development of the division of land, the permitted number of dwelling units shall be reduced by 25 percent if the pavement is 28 feet or more in width, and by 50 percent if the pavement is less than 28 feet in width. If the roadway paving on that portion of the street or street system forming the restriction is 64 feet or more in width and the restriction is subject to removal through future development, the permitted number of dwelling units may be increased to 600. In no event shall the pavement width be less than 20 feet. The provisions of this section shall not apply to divisions of land referred to in Section 21.32.040 to divisions of land approved pursuant to Section 21.32.080, or to minor land divisions.

(Ord. 85-0168 § 2, 1985; Ord. 10485 § 4, 1972: Ord. 4478 Art. 4 § 40.2, 1945.)

Notwithstanding the provisions of Sections 21.24.020 and 21.24.190, the advisory agency may disapprove a design of a division of land which utilizes a cul-de-sac or branching street system or other single-access street or street system as the sole or principal means of access to lots within the division, where the forester and fire warden advises:

A.

That the street or street system will traverse a wildland area which is subject to extreme hazard from brush or forest fires;

B.

That the lack of a second route of access would unduly hinder public evacuation and the deployment of fire-fighting and other emergency equipment in the event of a brush or forest fire.

(Ord. 10485 § 3, 1972: Ord. 4478 Art. 4 § 40.1, 1945.)

The advisory agency may modify the requirements of Sections 21.24.010, 21.24.020, 21.24.190 and 21.24.290 where it finds that topographic conditions, title limitations, or the pattern of ownership or the state of development of parcels in the immediate vicinity of a division of land make the strict application of the provisions of these sections impossible or impractical and that the public health, safety and general welfare will not be adversely affected thereby.

(Ord. 10485 § 5, 1972: Ord. 4478 Art. 4 § 40.3, 1945.)