(A) Street layout shall provide for the continuation of existing major or collector streets in surrounding areas, or conform to a plan for neighborhood development approved by the Planning Commission and/or Zoning Commission, as required.
(B) Certain proposed streets, as designated by the Planning Commission and/or Zoning Commission, as required, shall be extended to the boundary line of the tract to provide for future connections with adjoining unplatted land. In general, these extensions shall be not more than 1,300 feet apart.
(C) Where a subdivision abuts any of the following rights-of-way or zone districts, the Planning Commission and/or Zoning Commission, as required, shall normally require location of a street approximately parallel to, and one lot depth distant from, such rights-of-way or zones:
(1) Any street the Planning Commission and/or Zoning Commission, as required, may designate as a major traffic artery;
(2) Railroad and major overhead utility transmission lines; and
(3) Commercial or industrial districts.
(D) Proposed streets shall be so arranged in relation to existing topography as to produce desirable lots and streets of reasonable gradient.
(E) Except where justified in unique conditions, alleys will not be approved in those parts of the plat proposed for one- or two-family residential use.
(F) Street jogs with centerline offsets of less than 125 feet shall be avoided.
(G) Half-streets are prohibited, except where absolutely essential to the reasonable development of the tract in conformity to principles herein stated. Whenever a half-street has previously been platted outside of and abutting the tract boundary line, the remaining half shall be platted within the tract.
(1984 Code, § 6-02-04-020) (Ord. 11, passed 8-26-1969)