The minimum requirements for improving any public or private road, street, highway, lane, boulevard or other way or part thereof, for the purposes contemplated in these Regulations, shall be as follows:
(a) Right-of-way.
(1) The minimum right-of-way of any proposed street shall be fifty feet. Council, upon the recommendation of the City Engineer and the Planning Commission, may require street rights-of-way wider than fifty feet wherever, in its judgment, provision for public travel makes the wider right-of-way desirable or wherever any general plan of street development adopted by the Commission and Council requires the establishment of streets of greater right-of-way.
(2) The location and right-of-way of proposed streets shall be such as to fit in with any plan of street development adopted by the Commission or other public authority. Due regard shall be given to existing streets or streets capable of being established in surrounding property, so that streets may be laid out through adjacent or neighboring subdivisions with reasonable continuity of location and right-of-way.
(b) Pavement Width.
(1) The minimum width of pavement shall be twenty-six feet back of curb to back of curb, constructed of seven-inch reinforced concrete, as specified in the most recent edition of State of Ohio Department of Transportation Construction and Material Specifications and constructed on a thoroughly consolidated subgrade, conforming to the camber and crown of the finished pavement.
(2) The City Engineer, the Commission and Council may, when it is deemed necessary, require a pavement of a width of more than twenty-six feet, back of curb to back of curb, to be constructed, and the improvement shall then conform to such requirements.
(c) Direct Continuation of Streets.
(1) In order that proposed streets may be as nearly coterminous as possible with existing streets in adjoining subdivisions, due provision shall be made for the direct continuation of all existing streets which extend to the boundaries of a proposed subdivision. In cases where adjacent subdivisions are separated by existing thoroughfares, due provision shall be made for continuing, in a practical manner, such of the existing streets through the proposed subdivision as may be necessary for public requirements, subject to the approval of the Commission and Council.
(2) Where the land for a proposed subdivision adjoins unalloted property capable of being subdivided, then the streets in such proposed subdivision need only be carried to the boundaries thereof.
(d) Dead-end Streets. Only where conditions make it impossible to extend streets to the boundary of the subdivision will so-called "dead-end" streets be approved, subject to the recommendation of the Commission and the approval of Council. All such dead-end streets shall terminate at a turning circle having a minimum pavement radius of sixty feet. In all other instances, streets shall be carried to the boundaries of the subdivision.
(e) Cul-de-sacs. A cul-de-sac shall have a minimum pavement radius of sixty feet at its turn-around and shall not exceed 1,500 feet in length.
(Ord. 96-61. Passed 4-21-97.)