The street layout of the subdivision shall be in general conformity with a plan for the most advantageous development of adjoining areas and the entire neighborhood.
(a) Where appropriate to the design, proposed streets shall be continuous and in alignment with existing, planned or platted streets with which they are to connect.
(b) Proposed streets shall be extended to the boundary lines of the tract to be subdivided, unless prevented by topography or other physical conditions or unless, in the opinion of the Commission, the extension is not necessary or desirable for the coordination of the layout of the subdivision with the possible future development of adjacent tracts.
(c) Dead-end streets of reasonable length (not over 800 feet) will be approved where necessitated by topography or where, in the opinion of the Commission, they are appropriate for the type of development contemplated.
(d) Proposed streets shall intersect one another as nearly at right angles as topography and other limiting factors of good design permit.
(e) Wherever there abuts the tract to be subdivided a dedicated or platted and recorded half-width street or alley, the other half-width of the street or alley shall be platted.
(f) (1) Lands abutting numbered state or federal highways, collector streets or arterials should be platted with the view of making the lots, if for residential use, desirable for the use by cushioning the impact of heavy traffic on trafficways; and with the view also of minimizing interference with traffic on the trafficways as well as the accident hazard.
(2) This may be accomplished in several ways:
A. By platting the lots abutting the trafficways at very generous depth; and by providing vehicular access to them by means of streets, alleys or service drives in the rear or frontage access roads next to the highway, connected therewith at infrequent intervals;
B. Another more desirable and usually more economical method consists of not fronting the lots on the highway but on a minor street paralleling the highway at a distance of a generous lot depth. Private driveways in this case would, of course, connect with the minor street;
C. Under still another scheme, a minor street may be platted more or less parallel with the highways, from which loop streets or dead-end streets would extend toward the highway, the ends of which give access to the lots abutting the highway to their rear; and
D. Selection, in a specific case, among the foregoing or other acceptable methods for accomplishing the purposes in view, must necessarily be made in consideration of topography and other physical conditions, the character of existing and contemplated developments and other pertinent factors that apply in each case.
(g) No subdivider shall lay out any private road, street, highway, lane or boulevard, unless the proposed road, street, highway, lane or boulevard is built in compliance with the standards of design and construction applicable to public streets. Any private road, street, highway, lane or boulevard shall be constructed at a minimum width of 25 feet back of curb to back of curb. The design and construction of these improvements shall be as determined under the provisions of the city’s codified ordinances, including the Subdivision Regulations and the standard construction drawings.
(h) Temporary dead-end streets may be approved where necessitated by the layout of the subdivision or staging of development, provided that temporary turnarounds shall be constructed within the limits of the street right-of-way where lots front on temporary dead-end streets. The design and construction of the turn-around shall be determined by the City Engineer.
(Ord. 99-207, passed 1-10-2000)