(a) Emergency Accessway Easements. Streets shall be laid out to avoid hazard areas including, but not limited to, flood areas, cliffs, steep slopes or large ravines. An emergency accessway to a street of equal or higher order, which access does not go back through the same hazard area, shall be provided when one of the normal access streets into a development, or portion thereof, crosses through a hazard area. Said accessways may also be required at the termination of permanent dead end streets. The intent of said accessway is to provide an alternate, emergency means of access, for all emergency service vehicles, to the subject street and buildings thereon should the primary means of access along said street become impassable. Accessways shall have a minimum vehicle travel width of twenty (20) feet. The locations of proposed emergency accessways shall be subject to the approval of the Municipal Approving Authority for the subject project. The presence of an emergency accessway shall not qualify a street as a "through street".
(1) Emergency accessways shall connect from the subject street to one of the following, listed in priority, as required by the Approving Authority.
A. An existing dedicated street.
B. An existing private street on an adjacent property.
C. A proposed future street in the subject development.
D. An approved driveway, or other path of vehicular travel, which will meet the above stated intent.
(2) The specifications for, and construction of, emergency accessways shall be adequate to provide for year-round access by all emergency service vehicles; and shall be subject to the approval of the Municipal Engineer. The surface material shall be adequate to meet the intent and purpose of the accessway.
(3) The developer shall clearly define the proposed ownership, and the party responsible for maintenance, of the emergency access way; said proposals shall be subject to the approval of the Municipal Approving Authority for the subject project.
(4) The developer shall provide an easement, or right of way if appropriate to the circumstances, to the Municipality for the emergency access way; such provision shall be noted on the record plat of survey. When the required right of way or easement will cross property not under the control of the developer, said developer shall be required to obtain all necessary property rights across said property; the owner of said property shall be a signatory to the plat.
(b) Right of Way Widths. The right of way width requirements enumerated herein may be modified if found necessary by the Municipal Engineer, and if approved by the Municipal Approving Authority, because of extraordinary traffic loads or other just cause. Right-of-way width required for multifamily, business and industrial development shall be determined for each development to insure that each street shall be of sufficient width to safely accommodate the maximum traffic and access for fire protection equipment.
(Ord. 1327. Passed 5-9-91.)
(1) The minimum width of right of way for road purposes shall be sixty (60) feet.
(Ord. 439. Passed 8-4-66.)
(2) Collector street right-of-way widths shall be in accordance with Municipal plans and standards and may vary from sixty (60) to seventy (70) feet.
(Ord. 1327. Passed 5-9-91.)
(3) Major street right-of-way widths shall be in accordance with State highway or Municipal plans and standards, and may vary from eighty (80) to one-hundred (100) feet or greater in accordance with Ohio Dept. of Transportation standards.
(Ord. 1327. Passed 5-9-91.)