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(A) In addition to the aforementioned fee, the subdivider shall pay any expense incurred by the city for the services of the City Engineer and City Attorney in their review of the preliminary plat and final plat.
(B) The subdivider, owner, or developer, on or before submitting a preliminary plat, shall make a cash deposit in an amount as determined by resolution of the City Council which shall be available in the form of a published schedule. This deposit shall be held in a special subdivider’s escrow account and shall be credited to the subdivider, owner, or developer. Engineering or legal expense or City Manager-Clerk’s expense incurred by the city in checking plat improvements, giving notice, holding hearings, checking and setting grade and drainage requirements, general supervision, staking, inspection, drafting as-built drawings, and all other engineering services performed in the processing of the improvements and plats, and administrative and legal expenses in examining title to the property being developed, shall be charged to the aforementioned account.
(C) The City Engineer and City Attorney shall itemize all time, services, and materials billed to any subdivider’s escrow account and the time, services, and materials shall be in accordance with the rules, regulations, and fees as promulgated and adopted by the Council. The subdivider, owner, or developer making the deposit(s) in the subdivider’s escrow account shall be furnished a copy of the itemized charges and any balance remaining in the account shall be returned to the depositor by the City Manager-Clerk after all claims and charges thereto have been paid.
(Ord. 179, passed 2-16-78)
MINIMUM DESIGN STANDARDS
(A) Land shall be suited to the purpose for which it is to be subdivided. No plat shall be approved if the site is not suitable for purposes of the kind proposed by reason of potential flooding, topography, or adverse earth or rock formation.
(B) Land subject to hazards to life, health, or property shall not be subdivided for residential purposes until all these hazards have been eliminated or unless adequate safeguards against the hazards are provided by the subdivision plan.
(C) Erosion and sedimentation control plans in accordance with the technical standards and specifications of the State Department of Transportation, State Standard Specifications for Highway Construction, as amended, are required on slopes with grades of 20% or steeper.
(D) Proposed subdivisions shall be coordinated with existing neighborhoods so that the city as a whole may develop harmoniously.
(Ord. 179, passed 2-16-78)
(A) Proposed streets shall conform to all state road and county highway plans as have been prepared, adopted, and/or filed as prescribed by law.
(B) Streets shall be logically related to the topography so as to produce usable lots and reasonable grades.
(C) Access shall be given to all lots and portions of the tract in the subdivision, and to adjacent unsubdivided parcels unless the topography clearly indicates that connection is not feasible. Reserve strips and land-locked areas shall not be created.
(D) The arrangement of streets in new subdivisions shall make provision for the appropriate continuation of the existing streets in adjoining areas.
(E) Where adjoining areas are not subdivided, but may be subdivided, the arrangement of streets in a new subdivision shall make provision for the proper projection of streets into adjoining areas by carrying the new streets to the boundaries of the new subdivision at appropriate locations.
(F) Minor streets shall be laid out to discourage their use by through traffic. Thoroughfares shall be reserved for the through traffic by providing marginal access streets, interior streets for serving lots, or other means.
(G) Half or partial streets will not be permitted.
(H) Wherever a tract to be subdivided adjoins an existing half or partial street, the part of the street within the tract shall be platted.
(I) Dead-end streets shall be prohibited, except as stubs to permit future street extension into adjoining tracts, or when designed as cul-de-sac streets.
(J) Private streets and reserve strips shall be prohibited and no public improvements shall be approved for any private street. All streets shall be dedicated for public use.
(K) Wherever a subdivision abuts or contains an existing or planned major thoroughfare or railroad right-of-way, a street approximately parallel to and on each side of the thoroughfare and right-of-way may be required for adequate protection of residential properties and separation of through and local traffic. These service streets shall be located at a distance from the major thoroughfare or railroad right-of-way suitable for the appropriate use of the intervening land, as for park purposes in residential districts, or for commercial and industrial purposes in appropriate districts. These distances shall also be determined with due regard for the requirements of approach grades and future grade separations.
(L) The street arrangements shall not be so as to cause hardship to owners of adjoining property in platting their own land and providing convenient access to it.
(Ord. 179, passed 2-16-78)
(A) Cul-de-sac streets, permanently designed as such, shall not exceed 400 feet in length, except as variances are permitted. A variance may be granted if it can be clearly shown that by reason of unfavorable land form, or the irregular shape of the land from which the subdivision is being made, a normal street pattern cannot be established, or that land would be wasted by not granting a variance.
(B) Unless future extension is clearly impractical or undesirable, the turnaround right-of-way shall be placed adjacent to a property line, and a right-of-way of the same width as the street shall be carried to that property line in a way that will permit future extension of the street into the adjoining tract. At the time that the street is extended, the acreage covered by the turnaround outside the boundaries of the extended street shall revert in ownership to the property owner fronting on the temporary turnaround.
(Ord. 179, passed 2-16-78)
(A) Minimum right-of-way widths and pavements widths (face to face of curbs) for each type of public street or road shall be as follows:
Type of Street | Right-of-Way Width | Roadway Width |
Type of Street | Right-of-Way Width | Roadway Width |
Alleys (where permitted) | 40 ft. | 20 ft. |
Collector street | 80 ft. | 44 ft. |
Commercial or industrial service street | 60 ft. | 40 ft. |
Cul-de-sac | 60 ft. | 30 ft. |
Cul-de-sac turnaround | 60-ft. radius | 45-ft. radius |
Marginal access street | 60 ft. | 30 ft. |
Minor street | 60 ft. | 30 ft. |
Thoroughfare | 120 ft. | As determined by traffic needs |
(B) Where a subdivision abuts or contains an existing street of inadequate width, a sufficient additional width shall be provided to meet the above standards.
(C) Additional right-of-way and roadway widths may be required to promote public safety and convenience when special conditions require it or to provide parking space in areas of intensive use.
(D) Extensions of existing streets with lesser right-of-way than prescribed above, may be permitted by variance in special cases.
(E) Access of minor streets onto state and county state aid highways, shall be discouraged at intervals of less than 500 feet.
(F) Street jogs with center line offsets of less than 150 feet shall not be allowed.
(G) When connecting street lines deflect from each other at any one point by more than ten degrees, they shall be connected by a curve with a radius of not less than 100 feet.
(H) Center line gradients shall be at least 0.4% and shall not exceed the following:
Classification | Gradient (in Percent) |
Thoroughfares and collector streets | 5 |
Minor and service streets | 8 |
(I) Different connecting street gradients shall be connected with vertical curves. Minimum length, in feet, of these curves shall be 20 times the algebraic differences in the percent of grade of the two adjacent slopes.
(J) The angle formed by an intersecting of streets shall not be less than 75 degrees, with 90-degree intersections preferred.
(K) Intersections of more than four corners shall be prohibited.
(L) Roadways of street intersections shall be rounded by a radius of not less than 15 feet. Roadways of alley-street intersections shall be rounded by a radius of not less than 6 feet. Corners at the entrances to the turnaround portions of cul-de-sacs shall be rounded by a radius of not less than 15 feet.
(Ord. 179, passed 2-16-78; Am. Ord. 240, passed 8-12-82)
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