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13 Section 2. Lighting. Access ways, walkways, and parking areas shall be lighted adequately by lighting fixtures which shall be so installed as to protect the street and neighboring properties from direct glare or hazardous interference of any kind. Section 3. Safety Barriers. Curbs, walls, fences, or similar devices shall be located along the peri- meter of parking lots, garages, and storage areas, except at entrances and exits indicated in approved parking plans. Such barriers shall be so designed and located as to prevent parked vehicles from extending beyond property lines of parking lots and garages and to protect public rights-of- way and adjoining properties from changing effects of surface drainage. Section 4. Parking Areas Adjacent to Public Alleys. Where off-street parking facilities are located adjacent o a public alley, the width of such alley may be accounted as a portion of the required maneu- vering and access area, but not as part of the parking spaces required. Section 5. Improvement, Design, and Location Standards. (a) All off-street parking, including exits, entrances, and maneuvering and parking, shall be graded, shall be permanently maintained by the owners, and shall have: 1. access to a dedicated street or alley; 2. gravel or crushed rock access drives or lanes which are at least ten (10) feet wide for single lane movement and twenty (20) feet wide for double lane movement; all business, industrial, and office- institutional uses shall have access drives paved with either asphalt or concrete. (b) Off-street parking areas for more than ten (10) vehicles shall be effect- ively screened on each side which adjoins or faces premises situated in any residential or institutional district by a suitable fence or hedge, at least five (5) feet high. Such fence or hedge shall be maintained in good condition. (c) All parking lots that are used regularly at least five (5) days per week, shall be paved with asphalt or concrete up to the required paved drive- way, except that this paving requirement shall not apply to parking lots used only by churches, private clubs, or similar organizations using said parking facilities on an irregular schedule, and parking lots where ten (10) or less spaces are required. (d) Parking may not be assigned to two (2) uses, however, required parking spaces for any number of separate buildings or uses may be combined in one (1) lot. The spaces required for one use may not be assigned to 53