All streets shall be graded to the grades and dimensions as shown on plans and profiles and as approved by the Commission. The streets shall conform to the following.
(A) The arrangement, character, extent, width, grade, and location of all streets shall be correlated to existing and planned streets, existing topography, public safety, and in their appropriate relations to the proposed uses of the land to be served by those streets.
(B) Local streets shall be laid out so that their use by through traffic will be discouraged.
(C) No new street shall have a name which duplicates or so nearly duplicates as to be confused with any existing street within the city, unless the new street is to be an extension of an existing street, in which case the street shall bear the name of the existing street. Continuous local and collector streets which have major directional changes shall require a change in street name for each directional change.
(D) Street roadways shall be surfaced to the minimum width set forth in Table 1, herein. Street roadways shall be of bituminous concrete with a base course of ten inches compacted crushed stone, a two-inch asphalt binder course and a one-inch minimum asphalt surface; provided, however, that the Commission may permit the installation of surfacing other than bituminous concrete subject to standards assuring that the surfacing will be equivalent to the above mentioned roadway depth.
(E) Industrial roadways shall be of bituminous concrete with a base course of 12 inches compacted crushed stone, a two-inch asphalt binder course, and a one-inch minimum asphalt surface; provided, however, that the Commission may permit the installation of surfacing other than bituminous concrete subject to standards assuring that the surfacing will be equivalent to the above mentioned roadway depth.
(F) Suitable drainage structures, culverts, storm sewers, ditches, and related installations shall be provided to ensure adequate drainage of all points along the streets. The structures or installations shall be placed in accordance with the latest edition of the State Standard Specifications of Road and Bridge Construction and Maintenance and other standards that the Commission may deem essential upon advice of the City Engineer.
(G) Street shoulders shall be constructed which are uniformly and thoroughly compacted by rolling, and level with the tops of curbs.
(H) Curbs and gutters shall be constructed for all street pavements in all subdivisions. Curbs shall be of concrete and have a width of 24 inches, a rear height of 12 inches. Curbs shall be constructed over a sufficient base. An expansion joint shall be placed at 35-foot intervals. At each expansion joint, two and one-half-inch diameter steel smooth dowel rods 24 inches long shall be placed and evenly divided at the joints.
(I) All work on grading, surfacing, and improvements shall be performed in the manner prescribed in the latest edition of the State Standard Specifications of Road and Bridge Construction and Maintenance; provided, however, that the Commission may make additional requirements based on soil characteristics.
(J) Private driveways shall be constructed with a bituminous or concrete surface. If the construction is to be hot asphaltic concrete, the surface of the driveway shall be excavated a minimum of six inches below finished grade line and filled with four inches of crushed stone and two inches of hot asphaltic concrete. Each course shall be thoroughly compacted by rolling. The base course may be compacted with a vibratory compactor.
(K) If the construction is to be portland cement concrete, the driveway shall be excavated a minimum of four inches and filled with concrete, with wire mesh, six by six, 10/10 W.W.F. The wire mesh shall extend to within two inches of each edge. Solid forms shall be used and in no case will earth be allowed to substitute as a form. If the driveway is 20 feet or longer, a preformed expansion joint shall be placed at 20-foot intervals, with one-half inch round bars, painted and oiled, placed at three foot intervals across this joint. The edges of the drive shall be edged with a three-fourths-inch edger.
(Prior Code, § 155.039) (Ord. 0-98-0026, passed 12-21-1998) Penalty, see § 155.999