(A) Subcollector, local, and minor residential streets shall be curved whenever practicable to the extent necessary to avoid conformity of lot appearance.
(B) Cul-de-sacs and loop streets are encouraged so that through traffic on residential streets is minimized. Similarly, to the extent practicable, driveway access to collector streets shall be minimized to facilitate the free flow of traffic and avoid traffic hazards.
(C) All permanent dead-end streets (as opposed to temporary dead-end streets, see § 152.301, shall be developed as cul-de-sacs in accordance with the standards set forth in division (D) below. Except where no other practicable alternative is available, such streets may not extend more than 550 feet (measured to the center of the turnaround).
(D) The rights-of-way of a cul-de-sac shall have a radius of 50 feet. The radius of the paved portion of the turnaround (measured to the outer edge of the pavement) shall be 35 feet, and the pavement width shall be 12 feet without curb and gutter or 18 feet with curb and gutter. The unpaved center of the turnaround area shall be landscaped.
(E) Half-streets (i.e., streets of less than the full required rights-of-way and pavement width) shall not be permitted except where such streets, when combined with a similar street (developed previously or simultaneously) on property adjacent to the subdivision, creates or comprises a street that meets the right-of-way and pavement requirements of this chapter.
(F) Streets shall be laid out so that residential blocks do not exceed 1,000 feet, unless no other practicable alternative is available.
(Ord. passed 12-20-2001) Penalty, see § 152.999