(A) Opening or widening of streets. Whenever a street desig- nated on the thoroughfare 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 thorough- fare plan, provided that where a 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 street, measured at 90° to the center line thereof.
(B) Location of streets. Wherever the locations of streets are indicated on the thoroughfare plan as following existing roads or streets, or section or half-section lines, or other established property lines, they shall conform to such locations. However, streets lying wholly within a subdivision, and not designated as following an existing road or a section line, may be varied in their alignment when such variance promotes the plan of a neighborhood development unit in accordance with good site planning principles, and if such alignment provides for the continuity of traffic movement. 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 thoroughfare plan. Their alignment shall be subject to detailed surveys which may be made by the City Engineer, the City 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 City Plan Commission prior to the acquisition of land or the filing of subdivision plans affecting such streets.
(C) Consideration by public agencies. After adoption of the thoroughfare plan and this chapter, 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 case of permits authorized by the Common Council, for the erection or alteration of structures and other improvements, the permit shall be issued only if the proposed street and thoroughfare rights-of-way as set forth by this plan will be protected from encroachment and, for planning and zoning purposes, the proposed street and thoroughfare right-of-way lines will be considered as the front line of lots and tracts bordering such streets and thoroughfares.
('75 Code, App. C § 4) (Ord. 4151, passed 12-18-72)