(a) Arrangement character, extent, width, grade and location of all streets shall be considered in their relation to existing and planned streets, topographical conditions, public convenience and safety, and appropriate relation to the proposed uses of land to be served by such streets.
(b) The overall street plan for any subdivision must provide access to the subdivision by public street(s) connected to the existing road system of the City.
(c) Arrangement of streets in a subdivision shall either:
(1) Provide for continuation or appropriate projection of existing roads or streets (constructed or recorded) in surrounding areas; or
(2) Where topography or other conditions make continuance or projection of existing streets unnecessary or impracticable shall conform to a general area plan approved by the Planning and Zoning Commission.
(d) Local streets in residential neighborhoods shall be so laid out that their use by through traffic will be discouraged.
(e) Where a subdivision abuts or contains an existing or proposed arterial street or other streets carrying heavy traffic, the Commission may require local access streets, reversed frontage with screen planting contained in a nonaccess reservation along the rear property line, deep lots with rear service alleys, or such other treatment, including wider pavement widths, as may be necessary for adequate protection of residential or other properties and separation of local and through traffic.
(f) Where a subdivision borders or contains a railroad or limited access highway right of way, the Commission may require a street approximately parallel to and on each side of such right of way and at such distance therefrom as required for appropriate use of intervening land, if any, and as determined with due regard for requirements of future approach grades and grade separations.
(g) A subdivision plat involving new or existing streets crossing railroad tracks shall provide adequate right of way and slope easements, for construction of an underpass or overpass.
(h) No street intersection shall include more than four street approaches.
(i) Streets shall be laid out so as to intersect as nearly as possible at right angles, and no street shall intersect another at less than sixty degrees (60º), provided however that other arrangements for smooth merging of traffic shall be permitted where the total effect on the intersection to reduce traffic hazards and to provide for smooth traffic flow at the intersection as a whole.
(j) Property lines at the intersection of local streets with each other or with alleys shall be curved with a minimum radius of ten (10) feet. Property lines at the intersection of alleys with any streets shall be curved with a minimum radius of ten (10) feet. Property lines at all other street intersections shall be curved with a minimum radius of twenty (20) feet.
(k) A tangent at least one hundred (100) feet long shall be introduced between reverse curves on arterial and collector streets.
(l) Clear sight triangles of fifteen (15) feet measured along property lines from their points of junction shall be provided at an intersections, and no building, structure, grade or planting higher than three (3) feet above the center line of the street shall be permitted within such sight triangles.
(m) If a portion of a tract is not subdivided, suitable access to street openings for eventual subdivision of the entire tract shall be provided.
(n) Dead-end streets are prohibited except as stubs to adjoining tracts. Where stub streets are provided abutting unsubdivided acreage, temporary easements for turnarounds shall be provided at the boundary lines and appropriate arrangements shall be made for those parts of temporary turnarounds outside of street right of way to revert to abutting owners at such time as the street shall be extended.
(o) Private streets are prohibited unless approved by the Commission.
(Ord. 82-40. Passed 11-4-82.)