(a) Conformance with City and County Street Plans. The arrangement, character, extent, width and location of major, secondary and minor streets shall conform with the Major Thoroughfare Plan for Fremont and with the Official Highway Plan for Sandusky County, Ohio, if any, and with the provisions of these rules and regulations. Streets not contained in the Official Highway Plan or the Major Thoroughfare Plan should conform to the recommendation of the Planning Commission based on existing and planned streets, topography, public safety and convenience, and proposed uses of land.
(b) Design and Arrangement.
(1) Access to public right of way. Every subdivision shall have access to a public right of way.
(2) Continuation of existing streets. The arrangement of streets in a new subdivision shall make provision for the continuation of principal existing streets in the adjoining area, unless prevented by topography or other physical conditions, or unless in the opinion of the Planning Commission and the City Engineer the extension is not necessary or desirable, in which case a cull-de-sac shall be constructed.
(3) Vacation. The vacation of any street or part of a street dedicated for public use shall not be recommended by the Planning Commission if such vacation interferes with the uniformity of the existing street pattern or with any future street plans for an area.
(4) Angle of intersection. The angle of intersection between minor streets and major streets shall not vary by more than ten (10) degrees from a right angle. All other streets should intersect each other as near to a right angle as possible, and no intersection of streets at angles of less than seventy (70) degrees shall be permitted.
(5) Residential streets. Residential streets shall be designed to discourage through traffic which may otherwise use secondary or major highways, and whose origin and destination are not within the subdivision. Residential streets extending for considerable distance, parallel to any secondary or major street, should be avoided.
(6) Private streets. Private streets shall not be approved nor shall public improvements be approved for any existing private streets.
(7) Cull-de-sac. Each cull-de-sac shall be provided with a turnaround. The maximum length for a cull-de-sac shall be 800 feet. Dimensions of the cull-de-sac turnaround shall be as provided in subsection (d)(4) hereof.
(8) Dead-end streets. Dead-end streets, designated to be so permanently, shall not be permitted.
(9) Reserve strips. A reserve strip between a property line and the right-of-way line of a street shall not be permitted.
(c) Alignment.
(1) Vertical. No street grade shall be less than one-half of one percent (0.5%) and shall not exceed the following, with allowances for reasonable vertical curves:
Major | Secondary | Minor | Dead-end (shorter than 500 feet) | |
Percent | 5 | 6 | 8 | 10 |
For major thoroughfares, profile grades shall be connected by vertical curves of a minimum length equivalent to twenty (20) times the algebraic difference between the rates of grade, expressed in feet per hundred; for secondary and minor streets and dead-ends, fifteen (15) times.
(2) Horizontal. The minimum radii of centerline curvature for streets shall be as follows:
Major | Secondary | Minor | Dead-end (shorter than 500 feet) | |
Degrees | 12 | 19 | 28 | 58 |
Length (feet) | 475 | 300 | 200 | 100 |
A minimum fifty (50) foot tangent shall be introduced between reverse curves.
(3) Visibility requirements. The minimum vertical visibility (measured four and one-half (4.5) feet eye level to tail light eighteen (18) inches above ground level) shall be:
Major | Secondary | Minor | Dead-end (shorter than 500 feet) | |
Feet | 500 | 300 | 200 | 100 |
The minimum horizontal visibility, measured on the centerline, shall be:
Major | Secondary | Minor | Dead-end (shorter than 500 feet) | |
Feet | 500 | 300 | 100 | 100 |
Visibility at all street corners shall extend unobstructed for twenty (20) feet. The area shall be kept clear of all structures and vegetation exceeding a height of two and one-half (2.5) feet above the curb line. The curb radius at all street corners shall be twenty-five (25) feet.
(d) Street Width.
(1) Right of way and pavement. The widths of right of way and pavement for street shall be:
Major | Secondary | Minor | Dead-end (shorter than 500 feet) | |
R.O.W. (feet) | 70 | 60 | 60 | |
Pavement (feet) | 36 | 28 | 28 |
* See the Major Thoroughfare Plan for Fremont and the Official Highway Plan for Sandusky County.
(2) Half-streets. Dedication of half-streets shall not be permitted. Where a dedicated or platted half-street or alley exists adjacent to the tract being subdivided, the other half shall be platted, if deemed necessary by the Planning Commission.
(3) Alley. Alleys shall not be permitted in residential areas unless required by the Planning Commission. In commercial and industrial areas, alleys shall be required if no other provisions are made for adequate service access, such as off-street parking and loading. The right-of-way width of such alleys shall be not less than twenty (20) feet, and the pavement width shall be sixteen (16) feet. Dead-end alleys shall not be permitted.
(4) Cull-de-sac. Each cull-de-sac street shall be provided with a turnaround having a minimum right-of-way radius of fifty-five (55) feet. The outside of the road surface within the turnaround right of way shall have a minimum radius of forty (40) feet. The maximum length for a cull-de-sac shall be 800 feet.
(5) Easements. Easements of at least five (5) feet in width shall be provided on each side of all rear lot lines and alongside lot lines, where necessary, for poles, wires, conduits and gas mains. Additional width may be required for necessary access to the utility involved. Easements may also be required along or across lots where engineering design or special conditions may necessitate installation of water and sewer lines outside public rights of way. A five (5) foot easement shall be required on one side of an alley to accommodate pole lines. For lots facing on curvilinear streets, the rear easement shall consist of straight lines with a minimum number of points of deflection.
(e) Street Names. Names of streets shall be avenue, street, lane, drive or court; but not road. All street names shall meet with the approval of the Planning Commission and shall be substantially different in order not to be confused in sound or spelling with existing street names in the City, or adjacent areas, except that streets which join or align with streets of an abutting subdivision or area shall bear the same name.
(Ord. 2020-4053. Passed 1-7-21.)