By reason of the fact that changes will occur in the local neighborhoods and the city generally due to the increase in vehicular traffic, including trucking, increase in pedestrian traffic and other activities associated with the city's development and growth, the following improvements are deemed to be necessary to prevent congestion and other hazards that are related to the intensified use of the land, and these requirements must be met and complied with before any building permit may be issued:
All street, highway and alley improvements shall have either been installed or a performance bond in a reasonable amount to be determined by the city engineer, with sureties to be approved by the city attorney, shall have been filed with the city clerk, or cash in a like amount shall have been deposited with the finance director to be placed in a trust fund. The improvements shall meet the standards established by the city and shall include curb, gutter, sidewalk, street and alley paving, street trees, street signs, street lights, and all required utilities.
EXCEPTIONS: Curbs, gutters, sidewalks, and street paving already existing, and approved by the city engineer for continued use need not be replaced.
Sidewalks shall not be required in residential zones where seventy-five percent or more of the existing street frontage on that side of the street between intersecting streets has been developed without sidewalks.
Sidewalks shall not be required in industrial zones except in those locations where the planning director determines there may be school pedestrian traffic. When so determined by the planning director, sidewalks shall be required in industrial zones.
Lots having no frontage on a planned local street shall be excluded from the requirements of this section.
Where curbs, gutters, sidewalks or street paving are not presently installed along the street frontage between intersecting streets, the applicant, if granted a variance by the planning commission, shall enter into a standard improvement agreement with the city to install these improvements when directed to do so by the city.
(Ord. 64 § 2, 1963; Ord. 46 § 1 (part), 1962; prior code § 6700).