Anchorage, AK Parking Rules: Driveway Rules (2026)

Except as provided below, all parking spaces, loading berths, driveways, and other motor vehicle driving surfaces shall be paved and maintained with dustless, all-weather, hard materials appropriate for the municipality's sub-arctic environment, and equal in strength to two inches municipal Type E asphaltic concrete and a base material suitable for the intended traffic, to standards prescribed by the municipal engineer or as otherwise approved by the traffic engineer.

b. Paving exceptions and alternatives. The traffic engineer may approve the following exceptions and alternatives to the paving requirement, provided that the first 50 feet of a driveway, as measured from the edge of the street travelled way, shall be paved if connecting to a paved public street. This length is reduced to 15 feet for single-family and two-family uses. Where a driveway throat is less than 50 feet, the traffic engineer may approve an alternative driveway surface that effectively reduces or eliminates the tracking of sediment onto paved public streets.

i. Use-specific exceptions. Certain uses may use gravel in lieu of paving, as specified in Chapter 21.05.

ii. Exceptions for small parking lots in class B districts. Parking lots of ten spaces or fewer in class B districts may instead be surfaced with a layer of crushed rock of no more than one inch in diameter, to a minimum depth of three inches.

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