No dedication of street or streets, shall be accepted nor shall the subdivision of any land within the City be approved until the following improvements have been completed or provisions have been made guaranteeing all such improvements in conformity with this and other City ordinances relating thereto which are satisfactory to Council.
(a) Drainage. Adequate facilities shall be provided for the removal of surface water from all streets offered for dedication and from such other surfaces within the boundaries of the proposed subdivision as Council may determine and for the discharge thereof to establish watercourses or other approved drainage system. All culverts, drains, and other structures required in the prompt removal of such storm water shall be provided. Excluding natural drainage ways, all ditches which are a depth of eighteen inches or more located between dwellings shall be piped from the end of the lot line to the curb with the same size pipe coming from the existing sewer. If there is no existing sewer, the size of the pipe shall be in conformity with engineering design as provided by the City Engineer.
(b) Grading. All streets shall be graded to their full width as shown on dedication plan and to the grade and cross section approved by Council. Grading of adjoining surfaces may be required by Council, where necessary for the protection of the street.
(c) Water Supply. All streets offered for dedication shall be provided with water mains meeting the requirements of the Cleveland Water Department.
(d) Sewers. Both sanitary and storm water sewers shall be provided in all streets offered for dedication and shall make direct connection to adequate facilities for discharge and disposition of the flows therefrom. All such sewers and drains shall be properly engineered and constructed and shall include both storm water and sanitary sewerage connections for each lot, which connections shall extend two feet beyond the right of way line and have a tee and riser with a magnetic locator at the top cap.
When no outlet for sanitary sewers is available the requirement for construction of sanitary sewers in the streets proposed for dedication may be waived or postponed by Council under such terms and conditions as Council may determine.
(Ord. 6-1993. Passed 7-13-93.)
(e) Pavements. All streets offered for dedication shall include any improved roadway area not less than twenty-two feet in width, extending the full length of each such street and connections with improved road surfaces in all terminal and intersecting streets. Types of construction of all such roadways shall be subject to approval by Council but shall be of a subgrade and proof rolling consistent with O.D.O.T. 203, a subbase of six inches (6") of O.D.O.T. 304, five inches (5") of O.D.O.T. 301, two inches (2") of O.D.O.T. 402 and one inch (1") of O.D.O.T. 404 with seven inches (7") of reinforced concrete curbs.
The widht of the pavement may vary depending upon the topography of the area, traffic density, circulation and safety as affects the area concerned.
(Ord. 9-2002. Passed 5-28-02.)
(f) Sidewalks. Sidewalks shall be constructed on each side of each street offered for dedication and all such walks shall connect sidewalks interminal and intersecting streets. Walks shall be of sandstone or concrete no less than five feet in width and shall conform in all respects to the provisions of City ordinances pertaining thereto.
(g) Underground Utilities and Street Lighting. In all residential subdivisions consisting of more than five lots which involve the improvement of streets to be dedicated to the City, the developer shall be required to install an underground electric power and telephone distribution and cable system and to install street lighting equipment fixtures and facilities. The plan for street lighting shall be submitted to the City Engineer for approval prior to the installation thereof, and shall conform with the then existing standards for roadway lighting of the Illuminating Engineering Society or with standards recommended by the Ohio Edison Company. The Engineer, however, shall have no authority to vary such standards.
(h) Drainage and Sediment Pollution Control. After approval of the preliminary plat and prior to the approval of the final plat and/or construction drawings, the developer shall submit to the City Engineer and the County Soils Department a general grading plan for the entire subdivision or development. The Engineer shall review the plan to insure the control of soil sediment pollution caused by accelerated erosion during development and by accelerated storm water runoff after development. If, in the judgment of the City Engineer, the topography is that the drainage of the sublots or parcels shall require the installation of storm drains or storm sewers from rear yards, open space, and phased development, such storm drains or storm sewers shall be installed by the developer at the time that the sewer and water improvements are installed in the subdivision or development.
If any lot or parcel collects and discharges surface water other than directly to an on-site stream, river or into a storm sewer system, the Engineer shall require regrading of the land or the installation of such inlet basins, catch basis, drainage inlets and/or storm water control devices as may be necessary to transfer water to an approved point of discharge.
At the time of application for a building permit for the construction of any structure the owner or builder shall submit plans of sufficient detail and scale to show topographic information and notes and other data detailing how storm water will be collected and conveyed to the approved point of discharge. The City Engineer shall approve, approve with modifications or disapprove the submitted plan within ten days after the date of submission and the applicant shall be notified in writing of the basis for any such disapproval. The Engineer shall offer assistance to the applicant in the preparation of a plan acceptable to the City.
The drainage systems approved by the Engineer for any sublot or lands shall be maintained by the owner thereof. The City shall have the right to enter onto such sublot or lands to maintain any drainage system approved by the Engineer in the event the owner thereof shall fail to correct a problem after notification by the Engineer. Any costs incurred shall be chargeable to the property owner, or made a lien on such premises, in accordance with Ohio R.C. 715.47.
In any of the foregoing circumstances, the construction of open drainage ditches as a substitute for such storm drains or storm sewers shall not be permitted.
(Ord. 6-1993. Passed 7-13-93.)