(a) Generally. The owner shall prepare a preliminary plat in pencil on paper in order to keep the cost to a minimum. This plat shall show the boundary outlines of the land proposed to be subdivided, the location and names of all boundary streets or streets terminating at such boundaries and the proposed arrangement of streets and sublots to be allotted, with approximate dimensions. The scale of the preliminary plat shall be not less than one inch to 200 feet.
(b) Streets. The minimum width of any proposed street shall be fifty feet. The City Planning Commission and/or Council may require widths of more than fifty feet.
At the intersections of the side lines of streets, existing or proposed, turnouts having a minimum radius of twenty feet must be provided.
Due provision must be made for the direct continuation of all existing streets which terminate at the boundaries of the proposed allotment or which terminate at the boundaries of adjacent unallotted parcels of land.
Where practical, intersecting streets shall be provided so that no block is longer than 2,400 feet.
Only where conditions make it impossible to extend streets to the boundary of the allotment will so called "dead-end" streets be approved, subject to the recommendation of the Commission and approval by Council. All such dead-end streets shall terminate at a turning circle having an outside diameter of 120 feet or at a T-slot having a width of 120 feet, at the discretion of the Commission and Council. In all other instances streets must be carried to the boundaries of the allotment.
The streets shown on the plat shall be named so there will be no duplication of any existing street name within the County.
(c) Sublots. Sublots must meet the requirements of the Zoning Code as to frontage and area.
(d) Reserved Strips. No plat of a proposed street or allotment which shows reserved strips or a strip controlling access to public roads or rights of way, or strips of land which will not prove taxable for special improvements, shall be approved. However, such reserved strips may be shown when the control and disposal of land comprising such strips are definitely placed with the City under conditions meeting the approval of the City Engineer and the Director of Law.
(Ord. 1953-26. Passed 5-25-53.)