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(8) Joint Parking Facilities. Off-street parking facilities for a combination of mixed buildings, structures, or uses may be provided collectively in any non-residential zoning district in which separate parking facilities for each separate building, structure or use would be required, provided that the total number of spaces provided shall equal the sum of the separate requirements of each use during any peak parking periods. Shared curb cuts and access drives shall be encouraged for lots accessing collector and arterial streets. Where shared access and parking are utilized, easements shall be placed on the shared area and recorded with the properties and a maintenance agreement required. (9) Control of Off -Site Parking Facilities. When required, accessory off-street parking facilities are provided elsewhere than on the lot in which the principal use served is located, they shall be in the same ownership or control either by deed or long term lease, as the property occupied by such principal use, and the owner of the principal use shall file a recordable document with the City requiring the owner and his or her heirs and assigns to maintain the required number of off-street spaces during the existence of said principal use. (10) Traffic Control. (a) The traffic generated by any use shall be channelized and controlled in a manner that it will minimize: 1. Congestion on the public streets. 2. Traffic hazards. 3. Excessive traffic through residential areas, particularly truck traffic. (b) Internal traffic shall be regulated as to ensure its safe and orderly flow. Traffic into and out of business and industrial sites and traffic from residential lots with direct access to a collector street or arterial street shall in all cases be forward moving with no backing into streets. Direct residential lot access to collector and arterial streets shall be prohibited wherever alternative local street access is available. (c) On corner lots (including rural districts), nothing shall be placed or allowed to grow in such a manner as materially to impede vision between a height of two and one-half (2-1/2) and ten (10) feet above the centerline grades of the intersecting streets within fifteen (15) feet of the intersecting street right-of-way lines. This restriction shall also apply to the planting of crops and to yard grades that result in elevations that impede vision within fifteen (15) feet of any intersecting street right-of-way lines. (11) Motor Vehicle Parking in Residential and Rural Zoning Districts. (a) Passenger motor vehicles, including cars, pickup trucks, vans, and motorcycles may be parked on a residential or rural property provided that: 3-60