(A) Opening or widening of streets. Whenever a street designated in the thoroughfare plan is to be platted as a part of the subdivision of land, the right-of-way width shall conform to the policies and specified designations and indications in the thoroughfare plan; provided, that, where a street borders a tract of land to be subdivided, the owner of the land shall be required to plat only one-half of the right-of-way width designated for the street, measured at 90 degrees to the centerline thereof.
(B) Location of streets. Wherever the locations of streets are indicated in the thoroughfare plan as following existing roads or streets, or section or half-section lines, or other established property lines, they shall conform to those 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 the variance promotes the plan of a neighborhood development unit in accordance with good site planning principles, and if the alignment provides for the continuity of traffic movement. Streets which follow irregular alignment, or indicate revised alignments, or are not referenced to established lines, shall follow in a general manner the alignment shown on the thoroughfare plan maps. Their alignment shall be subject to detailed surveys which may be made by the city, the City Plan Commission or other public agencies, or by the owners of land to be subdivided. The 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 the streets.
(C) Consideration of public agencies. After adoption of the official thoroughfare plan and this subchapter, the Common Council and other governing bodies within the jurisdiction of the Commission shall be guided by and give consideration to the general policy and pattern of development set out in the official 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 of the city 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 in the official thoroughfare 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 the streets and thoroughfares.
(E) Street improvement program. The Board of Public Works and Safety is authorized to use funds available for street improvement purposes to participate with the owners of lands abutting streets within the city in the improvement of those streets in accordance with the requirements of the Board of Public Works and Safety and the standards for street improvements established in the subdivision regulations. For any participation project, the Board shall be governed by the following policies.
(1) All alley and street intersections will be paved at city expense and the cost of the work is not to be considered as a part of the city’s share of other street improvements.
(2) The cost of grading and excavating in connection with the improvement of alleys and streets in existence on September 9, 1974, is to be considered a city expense and not as a part of the city’s share of other street and alley improvements.
(3) The cost of grading and excavating in connection with the improvement of streets and alleys dedicated after September 9, 1974, is not to be considered a part of the improvement cost in which the city can participate.
(4) The city may participate to the extent of 50% of the cost of improving an alley located in the business district as shown on the city zone map. The city shall not participate in the cost of improving alleys other than those indicated above.
(5) The amount of the participation by the city in the cost of street improvements is indicated below as a percentage of the total of the cost, as may be modified by preceding statements, in accordance with the street designation and width of surface to be improved, which may include curb and gutter:
Width of Improved Surfaces | Street or Thoroughfare Designation | ||
Arterial | Feeder | Residential | |
24 to 28 feet | 50% | 40% | 30% |
29 to 31 feet | 60% | 50% | 40% |
32 to 35 feet | 70% | 60% | 50% |
36 feet or wider | 80% | 70% | 60% |
(Prior Code, § 23-122) (Ord. 74-16, passed 9-9-1974)