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(A) A fee and deposit as adopted by City Council resolution shall be paid.
(B) (1) The subdivider shall be required to pay at the time of filing and submission of their plat, a cash fee to the city as required by City Council resolution.
(2) Public sites and open space dedication. In all new residential subdivisions, including planned unit developments and manufactured home parks, where the governing body chooses to require the subdivider to pay a fee rather than accept the dedication of land, the subdivider may require to pay a fee as specified in the fee schedule that is established by resolution of the governing body. (See also § 153.096)
(C) (1) In addition to the aforementioned fee, the subdivider shall pay any expense incurred by the City Engineer and City Attorney for their services in the review of the preliminary plat and final plat.
(2) 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 governing body which shall be available in the form of published schedule. This deposit shall be held in a subdivider’s account and shall be credited to the said subdivider, owner, or developer. Engineering and legal expense incurred by the city in checking plat improvements, 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 said improvements and plats, administrative and legal expenses in examining title to the property being developed shall be charged to the aforementioned account.
(3) The City Engineer and City Attorney shall itemize all time, services, and materials billed to any subdivider’s escrow account and said 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 said itemized charges and any balance remaining in the account shall be returned to the depositor by the Clerk after all claims and charges thereto have been paid.
(Ord. 274, passed 4-15-1997; Am. Ord. 308, passed 7-2-2002)
MINIMUM DESIGN STANDARDS
The proposed subdivision shall conform to the Comprehensive Plan and policies as adopted by the city.
(Ord. 274, passed 4-15-1997) Penalty, see § 153.999
(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 such hazards have been eliminated or unless adequate safeguards against such hazards are provided by the subdivision plan.
(C) Erosion and sedimentation control plans in accordance with the technical standards and specification of the Soil Conservation Service as provided by the Kanabec County Soil and Water Conservation District Office, are required on slopes with grades of eighteen percent (18%) or steeper.
(D) Proposed subdivisions shall be coordinated with existing neighborhoods so that the city as a whole may develop harmoniously.
(E) Subdivision shall comply with the Floodplain and Shoreland Management District requirements.
(Ord. 274, passed 4-15-1997) Penalty, see § 153.999
(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 subdivided parcels unless the topography clearly indicates that such connection is not feasible. Reserved 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 through traffic by providing marginal access streets, interior streets for serving lots, or other means.
(G) Half or partial streets will not be permitted, except where essential to reasonable subdivision of a tract in conformance with the other requirements and standards of these regulations and where, in addition, satisfactory assurance for dedication of the remaining part of the street can be secured.
(H) Wherever a tract to be subdivided adjoins an existing half, or partial street, the part of the street within such 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) Where a subdivision abuts or contains an existing or planned major thoroughfare or a railroad right-of-way, a street approximately parallel to and on each side of such thoroughfare and right-of-way may be required for adequate protection of residential properties and separation of through and local traffic. Such 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. Such distances shall also be determined with due regard grade separations.
(L) The street arrangements shall not be such as to cause hardship to owners of adjoining property in platting their own land and providing convenient access to it.
(Ord. 274, passed 4-15-1997) Penalty, see § 153.999
(A) Cul-de-sac streets, permanently designed as such, shall not exceed six hundred (600) feet in length, except as variances are permitted. Such a variance may be granted if it can be clearly shown that by reason of unfavorable land from, 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 such 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 said property line in such a way as to permit future extension of the street into the adjoining tract. At such time as such a 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. 274, passed 4-15-1997) Penalty, see § 153.999
(A) Minimum right-of-way widths and pavement widths (face to face of curb) for each type of public street or road shall be as follows:
Type of Street | Right-of-way Width (Ft.) | Roadway Width (Ft.) |
Thoroughfare | 120 | As determined by traffic needs |
Collector street | 80 | 44 |
Commercial or industrial service street | 60 | 36 |
Minor street | 60 | 34 |
Marginal access street | 60 | 34 |
*Cul-de-sac street | 40 | 34 |
*Cul-de-sac turn around | 55 foot radius | 45 foot radius |
* A ten (10) foot snow/utility easement is required along front property lines.
(B) Where a subdivision abuts or contains an existing street of inadequate width, 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) Restriction of access. Access of minor streets onto state and county state aid highways, shall be discouraged at intervals of less than five hundred (500) feet.
(F) Street jog. Street jogs with center-line offsets of less than one hundred fifty (150) feet shall not be allowed.
(G) Deflection. When connecting street lines deflect from each other at any one (1) point by more than ten (10) degrees, they shall be connected by a curve with a radius of not less than one hundred (100) feet.
(H) Grades. Centerline gradients shall be at least four-tenths percent (0.4%) and shall not exceed the following:
Classification | Gradient (In Percent) |
Thoroughfares and collector street | 5 |
Minor and service streets | 8 |
(I) Vertical curves. Different connection street gradients shall be connected with vertical curves. Minimum length, in feet, of these curves shall be twenty (20) times the algebraic difference in the percent of grade of the two (2) adjacent slopes.
(J) Angle of intersection. The angle formed by any intersecting of streets shall not be less than sixty (60) degrees with ninety (90) degree intersections preferred.
(K) Size of intersection. Intersections of more than four (4) corners shall be prohibited.
(L) Corner radii for roadways. Roadways of street intersections shall be rounded by a radius of not less than fifteen (15) feet. Roadways of alley-street intersections shall be rounded by a radius of not less than six (6) feet. Corners at the entrances to the turnaround portions of a cul-de-sac shall be rounded by a radius of not less than fifteen (15) feet.
(Ord. 274, passed 4-15-1997) Penalty, see § 153.999
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