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The Platting Commissioner may require wider streets than fifty (50) feet, whenever in his or her judgment, provisions for public travel make the wider street desirable, or wherever any general plan of street development adopted by the Planning Commission requires the establishment of streets of greater width. In general, streets of not less than one hundred (100) feet wide may be required at intervals not greater than six thousand (6,000) feet, and streets not less than eighty (80) feet wide, at intervals not greater than three thousand (3,000) feet.
(Ord. No. 72120. Passed 12-28-25)
No so called dead-ended streets will be approved for dedication except where physical conditions make the extension of such a street impractical. In such cases a dead-end street may be approved, provided that adequate turning space for vehicles is placed at the dead-end.
Turning spaces shall be of sufficient size to provide for a paved circular space of at least sixty (60) feet in diameter, or of a rectangular space twenty-five (25) feet wide and eighty (80) feet long, having its eighty (80) foot dimension placed symmetrically perpendicular to the line of the street, both of such spaces being exclusive of any sidewalk space.
(Ord. No. 72120. Passed 12-28-25)
Where, in order to comply with the requirements of the Planning Commission, it is necessary to acquire property for a street outside of the boundaries of the land to be allotted, the land required for the street may be acquired by the City, but the expense thereof shall be borne by the owners of the allotment.
(Ord. No. 72120. Passed 12-28-25)
(a) Before approval will be given upon any plat dedicating streets to public use, except as hereinafter provided, the streets shall have been graded to a grade approved by the Commissioner of Engineering and Construction, and sidewalks shall have been constructed of stone or cement in accordance with the City’s specifications, to a width meeting the approval of the Commissioner.
(b) Stone monuments, provided with drill holes, to indicate all street lines, shall be placed at street intersections, at points of change of alignment and at ends of streets, should the same not be at a street intersection. The monuments shall be of suitable hard stone free from ingredients likely to cause disintegration and shall be at least twenty (20) inches in depth, five (5) inches wide and five (5) inches long. The monuments shall be set so that their tops will be approximately ten (10) inches below the established grade of the street.
(Ord. No. 72120. Passed 12-28-25)
All culverts or bridges necessary within the limits of the streets to be dedicated, all box culverts and drainage outlets necessary to carry surface drainage and all of the work necessary in the intersections of the proposed streets, with existing street, including the repaving of such intersections and providing catch basins at such locations, shall be done by the owner of the proposed allotment, or land proposed for dedication, and all to the approval and satisfaction of the Commissioner of Engineering and Construction.
(Ord. No. 72120. Passed 12-28-25)
Special improvements such as sewer, water and paving, may be provided by those dedicating the proposed streets, provided that such work is done in accordance with the City’s standard specifications and ordinances governing such work.
(Ord. No. 72120. Passed 12-28-25)
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