The City of Spartanburg requires commercial parking lots and similar lots to be paved with a dustproof, waterproof hard surface. There is no city or county rule requiring residents to pave a home driveway, though a vehicle can't block the roadway or a driveway to dodge a traffic signal.
City Code § 40-76 requires all commercial parking lots, bus and trucking terminal lots, and drive-in restaurant lots to be paved with a dustproof, waterproof hard surface meeting city requirements and kept maintained. This surfacing rule applies to commercial uses, not residential driveways — the traffic code sets no paving standard for home driveways. Section 40-39 separately bars driving through or across any private driveway to avoid a traffic-control device. In unincorporated Spartanburg County, driveway and off-street parking standards, where they exist, come from the Unified Land Management Ordinance rather than the traffic code.
Commercial lots that are unpaved or not maintained violate § 40-76 and are subject to city enforcement; cutting through a private driveway to skip a signal is a traffic offense.
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