(A) Opening or widening of major streets. Whenever a major street designated on the plan is to be platted as a part of a subdivision of land, the right-of-way width shall conform to the policies and specified designations and indications in the thoroughfare plan; provided that where a major street borders a tract of land to be subdivided, the owner of such land shall be required to plat only one-half of the right-of-way width designated for such major street, measured at 90 degrees to the centerline thereof.
(B) Location of major streets. Wherever the locations of major streets are indicated as following existing roads or streets, or section or half-section lines, or other established property lines, they shall conform to such locations. Major streets which follow irregular alignments, or indicate revised alignments, or are not referenced to established lines, shall follow in a general manner the alignment shown on the maps which accompany the thoroughfare map plan map. They shall be subject to detailed surveys of their alignments, which may be made by the City Engineer, the Plan Commission or other public agencies, or by the owners of land to be subdivided. Such surveys shall be subject to the approval of the Plan Commission prior to the acquisition of land or the filing of subdivision plans affecting such major streets.
(C) Consideration by public agencies. After adoption of the thoroughfare plan, the Common Council shall be guided by, and give consideration to, the general policy and pattern of development set out in the thoroughfare plan in the authorization, construction, alteration, or abandonment of public highways and structures.
(D) Issuance of permits. In the issuance of permits authorized by the Common Council for the erection or alteration of structures and other improvements, the proposed street and thoroughfare rights-of-way as set forth by this plan shall be protected, and no such permit or permits shall be issued if the work proposed thereunder would encroach on the existing or proposed sites or existing or proposed rights-of-way indicated on the thoroughfare plan adopted by this chapter.
(1980 Code, § 155.03) (Ord. 375, passed 11-23-1954)