(A) The thoroughfare plan map attached to Ordinance 2004-15 as Exhibit “A” and incorporated herein by reference for all relevant purposes as if set forth at length herein, is hereby adopted and approved by the City Council as the transportation thoroughfare plan map. All prior thoroughfare plans and associated thoroughfare plan maps are hereby repealed, and the comprehensive plan is amended to reflect the changes shown in the thoroughfare plan map herein adopted.
(B) The transportation thoroughfare plan is the city’s general plan for guiding thoroughfare system development, including sidewalks, the planned widening and extension of its roads, streets and public highways within the city and its extraterritorial jurisdiction. The plan indicates the needed rights-of-way, general alignments for planned new roadways, as well as plans for widening and extensions of existing thoroughfares. Proposed general alignments are shown for planned new roadways, but actual alignments may vary depending upon the topography of the land and changing conditions. The importance of thoroughfare planning is to decide, in advance, the general location and type of thoroughfares that are needed to serve the projected future mobility needs of the city and region, and to require consideration of thoroughfare right-of-way needs concurrent with new development or redevelopment.
(C) Sidewalks and other pedestrian pathways such as linear parks along drainage channels are necessary to move people safely to and from schools and commercial areas while providing opportunity for neighborhoods to be more neighborly and residents to walk, exercise and the like.
(D) The plan shows approximate alignments and right-of-way requirements for planned thoroughfares that should be considered in platting of subdivisions, required right-of-way dedication and construction of major roadways. The plan does not show future alignments of residential streets because the function of these streets is to provide access to adjacent land development. The alignment of residential streets may vary depending upon specific development plans. Minor collectors’ alignments are to be determined based on function approval during the planning process for new developments.
(E) The original of the thoroughfare plan map shall be filed in the office of the City Secretary. This copy shall be the official map and shall bear the signature of the Mayor and attestation of the City Secretary. This copy shall not be changed in any manner except as the Council may amend this thoroughfare plan from time to time. In case of any question, this copy, together with any amending ordinances, shall be controlling.
(F) Additional copies of the original map shall be placed in the offices of the Planning and Development Director and the Public Works Director. These copies shall be maintained up-to-date by posting thereon all subsequent amendments and shall be identified as the official thoroughfare plan map.
(Ord. 2010-08, passed 3-9-10)