(A) The Ordinance Administrator shall have sole authority to approve road names for new development within the county, subject to the requirements herein.
(B) Names for proposed or newly constructed roads may be submitted by the owner or developer for approval by the Ordinance Administrator. However, in the event that a proposed or newly constructed road crosses over property not owned by the submitting owner or developer, then a petition to name the proposed road must be submitted in accordance with the provisions as set forth in § 93.10 of this chapter.
(C) The Ordinance Administrator shall maintain a database of existing road names, such that duplicate, sound-alike, and deceptively similar road names are neither assigned nor approved.
(D) Road names shall be chosen that relate to the scale, location, and history of a project area.
(E) Road names shall be pleasant sounding, appropriate, easy to read, and should add pride to home ownership.
(F) Large developments should use a single, significant category for road naming; small developments should use the same category within the immediate vicinity, which helps establish location identity.
(G) Numerical names; alphabetical names; and frivolous, complicated, or undesirable names are unacceptable. Compound names shall be used rarely and shall not be used for short roads.
(H) The following road name suffixes are allowed: Avenue (AVE), Boulevard (BLVD), Circle (CIR), Court (CT), Drive (DR), Highway (HWY), Lane (LN), Loop (LOOP), Parkway (PKY), Place (PL), Road (RD), Street (ST), Trail (TRL), and Way(WAY). Private roads shall be assigned the suffix Trail, Lane, or Way. All other suffixes shall be reserved for public roads. If a suffix is used which is not listed herein, the standard applied for the suffix will be obtained from Appendix C of the Postal Addressing Standards Publication 28, November 1997, as revised.
(I) Roads that cross either baseline shall bear different names on each side of the baseline to avoid duplicating addresses along that road, and to preserve the integrity of the county's numbering system.
(J) Each road shall bear the same name and uniform numbering as outlined herein, along the entirety of the road. Exclusions from this standard shall include the following:
(1) Split routes, also known as "dog-leg" or offset intersections. Split routes shall be treated as separate roads with different names and numbering to preserve the integrity and continuity of the numbering system; and
(2) Impasses or sections of a road that are impassable. Different names and numbering ranges shall be assigned to each portion of the road on either side of the impasse to preserve the integrity and continuity of the numbering system and to prevent efforts in the dispatch of emergency services.
(K) Existing roads that are extended shall carry the same road name and numbering order as the road from which they are extended. An example of this would be a road extended through a cul-de-sac into a new, existing, or additional phase of a subdivision. Extensions of roads that change the character of the road (for example, changing a dead end to a connecting street or road) shall be the responsibility of the developer making the extension, and the developer shall bear all costs associated with any changes that may be necessitated by the extension.
(Ord. passed 4-16-2001; Ord. 2010-18, passed 12-6-2010
; Ord. passed 3-21-2022)