A. Street Classification: Highway, major, collector and local streets as classified in this subsection shall be as shown and designated in the general development plan.
1. Highway: Those state, county and village designated routes which provide continuity of travel and freedom from hazards and congestion necessary for interregional and village traffic movement.
2. Major Street: Those routes so designated by the village to be of importance in intravillage traffic movement and necessary to provide easy access to neighboring communities.
3. Collector Street: Those primary streets within the neighborhood unit, providing a reasonable alignment coupled with an attractive pavement, which will act to collect traffic from minor streets for travel to major streets and highways.
4. Local Street: Those streets whose prime function is to give access to abutting property. They are not intended to carry heavy through traffic and are designed to discourage such movement.
5. Marginal Access Street: Those local streets which serve to control access to major thoroughfares and permit development of lands adjacent to high speed and high capacity highways. Their prime function is property access.
B. Platting Of Street: Whenever a tract to be subdivided embraces any part of a public street so designed in the comprehensive plan, such part of such street shall be platted by the subdivision at the location and width indicated on the plan.
C. Relation To Existing And Planned Streets: All streets shall be considered in their relation to existing and planned streets, to topographical conditions, to public convenience and safety, and to the proposed uses of the land to be served by such streets.
D. Arrangement: Where such is not shown on the general development plan, the arrangement of streets in a subdivision shall either:
1. Provide for the continuation or appropriate projection of existing principal streets in surrounding areas; or
2. Conform to a plan for the area or neighborhood approved or adopted by the plan commission to meet a particular situation where topographical or other conditions make continuance or conformance to existing streets impracticable.
E. Minor Streets: Minor streets shall be so laid out that their use by through traffic will be discouraged.
F. Highway Or Primary Thoroughfare: Where a subdivision abuts or contains an existing or proposed highway or primary thoroughfare, as shown on the general development plan, the plan commission may require marginal access streets; reverse frontage with screen planting contained in a nonaccess reservation, at least thirty feet (30') wide, along the rear property line; deep lots with rear service alleys; or such other treatment as may be necessary for adequate protection of residential properties and to afford separation of residential development from highways or primary thoroughfares.
G. Approach Grades: Where a subdivision borders on or contains a railroad or highway, the plan commission may require a street approximately parallel to and on each side of such railroad or highway, at a distance suitable for the appropriate use of the intervening land, as for park purposes in residential districts, or for commercial or industrial purposes in appropriate districts. Such distances shall also be determined with due regard for the requirements of approach grades and future grade separations.
H. Reserve Strips: Reserve strips controlling access to streets or alleys are prohibited.
I. Intersections: All street intersections and confluences should encourage safe traffic flow.
J. Street Jogs: Street jogs with centerline offsets of less than one hundred twenty five feet (125') shall be avoided. (Ord. 831, 8-10-1994)
K. Tangents: Tangents shall be introduced between reverse curves on all streets per "minimum standards for street design" in appendix A attached to ordinance 831, on file in the office of the village clerk.
L. Curve And Radius: When connecting street lines deflect from each other at any one point by more than ten degrees (10°), they shall be connected by a curve with a radius adequate to ensure clear sight distances per "minimum standards for street design" in appendix A attached to ordinance 831, on file in the office of the village clerk.
M. Intersections: Streets shall be laid out so as to intersect as nearly as possible at right angles, and no street shall intersect any other street at less than sixty degrees (60°).
N. Right Of Way Widths: Street right of way widths shall be as specified in "minimum standards for street design" in appendix A attached to ordinance 831, on file in the office of the village clerk.
O. Half Streets: Half streets are prohibited, except where essential to the reasonable development of the subdivision in conformity with the other requirements of these regulations and where the plan commission finds it will be practicable to require the dedication of the other half when the adjoining property is subdivided. Wherever a half street is adjacent to a tract to be subdivided, the other half of the street shall be platted within such tract.
P. Cul-De-Sacs: Cul-de-sacs are streets designed to have one end permanently closed. They shall be designed to be no longer than five hundred feet (500') from the intersection of the origin through the center of the circle to the end of the right of way, and shall be provided at the closed end with a turnaround having a right of way diameter and an outside pavement diameter as specified in "minimum standards for required street and lot improvements" in appendix A attached to ordinance 831, on file in the office of the village clerk.
Q. Street Names: No street names shall be used which will duplicate or be confused with the names of existing streets. Existing street names shall be projected wherever possible. Street names shall be subject to the approval of the plan commission.
R. Gradients And Curves: Street gradients and vertical curves shall be as specified in "minimum standards for street design" in appendix A attached to ordinance 831, on file in the office of the village clerk.
S. Access To Lots: Street grades shall provide proper relation between the street and the first floor elevation of the houses or buildings and permit convenient and economical access to and drainage of the lots. (Ord. 831, 8-10-1994; amd. 1999 Code)