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DESIGN STANDARDS
(A) Purpose. Streets in the subdivision shall provide for the continuation of existing streets of adjoining subdivisions and for the proper protection of principal streets into adjoining properties which are not yet subdivided in order to make possible necessary community services extensions.
(B) Street arrangement.
(1) The minimum right-of-way, road surface width and maximum street grades for streets or pedestrian ways included in any subdivision shall not be less than the minimum dimensions for the classification as follows:
Class | Right-of-Way Width | Minimum Width of Road Surface | Maximum Street Grade |
Collector street | 80 feet | 44 feet | 5% |
Minor or local street | 66 feet | 36 feet | 8% |
Marginal service and access road | 60 feet | 24 feet | 8% |
Alley | 20 feet | 16 feet | 8% |
Pedestrian way | 10 feet | – | – |
* Except when, upon the recommendation of the City Engineer, the topography warrants a greater maximum. | |||
(2) Minor streets shall be arranged so their use by through traffic will be discouraged.
(C) Dead end streets. The creation of dead end or loop residential streets will only be used where the Planning Commission finds this type of street development will not interfere with normal traffic circulation in the area. All dead end streets, if approved, must be provided with a cul-de-sac which has a right-of-way radius of 50 feet.
(Ord. passed 9-20-79) Penalty, see § 10.99
Blocks shall not be less than 300 feet, nor more than 1,200 feet in length. No block width shall be less than twice the normal lot depth, unless it abuts a railroad right-of-way, a limited access highway, a major or arterial street, a body of water or a park.
(Ord. passed 9-20-79) Penalty, see § 10.99
When a subdivision abuts or contains an existing or proposed arterial or major street, the Planning Commission may require marginal frontage streets, or other treatments as may be necessary for adequate protection of residential properties and to attend separation of through and local traffic.
(Ord. passed 9-20-79)
The following shall be prohibited:
(A) Half of partial streets;
(B) Private streets, unless part of an approved planned unit development, in which case the streets shall conform to the approved design criteria of the city; and
(C) Intersection with more than four corners.
(Ord. passed 9-20-79) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) Where possible, side lot lines shall be at right angles to straight street lines or radical to curved street lines, unless a variance from this rule shall give a better street or lot plan.
(B) Lots with frontage on two parallel streets shall be permitted only under unusual circumstances.
(C) Lot remnants which are below the minimum lot size must be added to adjacent or surrounding lots rather than be allowed to remain as an unusable out lot, unless the owner can show future plans for the remnants.
(D) Lots abutting upon a water course, drain way, channel, stream or water hole shall have additional depth or width, to assure that home sites are not subject to flooding.
(E) In the subdividing of any land, regard shall be shown for all natural features, which if preserved, will add attractiveness to the proposed development.
(Ord. passed 9-20-79) Penalty, see § 10.99
(A) No conveyance of land to which these regulations are applicable shall be filed or recorded if the land is described in the conveyance by metes and bounds or by reference to an unapproved registered land survey made after the effective date of this chapter. The foregoing provision shall not apply to a conveyance if the land described:
(1) Was a separate parcel of land on record on the date of the adoption of this chapter;
(2) Was the subject of a written agreement to convey entered into prior to the date of the adoption of this chapter; or
(3) Is a single parcel of land of not less than 2½ acres and having a width of not less than 300 feet.
(B) Only one division of land in which the tract is described by metes and bounds shall be permitted. Any further division of the remaining land must be by plat, duly approved and recorded in accordance with the laws and regulations in the case made and provided. Any further conveyance of land by metes and bounds description must be handled as a variance.
(Ord. passed 9-20-79)
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