The following planning principles and requirements shall apply in order to promote and protect the public safety, convenience and general welfare. Moreover, the Planning Commission may be guided by these principles so that thoroughfares and streets are designed to serve their particular functions:
(a) Classification of Streets. In order to promote public safety and convenience, streets shall be planned to serve particular functions as follows:
(1) Primary thoroughfare: Primary thoroughfares provide for efficient circulation of traffic into, out or around the City and carry high volumes of traffic between centers of traffic generation.
(2) Secondary thoroughfare: Secondary thoroughfares collect traffic from or distribute it to local streets, connecting with primary thoroughfares and providing access to abutting properties.
(3) Local street: A public or private street that provides direct access to lots and circulation of slow-moving traffic and pedestrians within a neighborhood.
(4) Marginal: A thoroughfare generally parallel to a primary thoroughfare which provides access to abutting properties while discouraging through traffic.
(b) The subdivider shall dedicate to the City all the land required for the right-of-way, as specified in Schedule 727.06, of all public streets within the subdivision and for secondary and primary thoroughfares within or on the boundary of the subdivision. Necessary and proper drainage and utility easements shall also be provided.
(c) The arrangement of streets shall provide for the continuation or appropriate projection of existing principal streets in the surrounding areas.
(d) Reserve strips to control access to streets or other land dedicated for public use shall be prohibited.
(e) Streets having widths less than that required by Schedule 727.06 may be permitted if the Planning Commission finds the proposed local street or cul-de-sac adequate to serve a small parcel, provided that no future expansion of such streets in the area is anticipated.
(f) Where land abuts a street whose width does not meet the requirements of these regulations or plans of the State or County Transportation Departments, the additional width shall be dedicated when the land is subdivided.
(g) Wider streets than specified in these regulations may be required when, upon recommendation of the Planning Commission, provisions for safe public travel make the wider streets necessary, or whenever any general plan for street development adopted by the Planning Commission or City Council requires the establishment of streets of greater width.
(h) Only vertical curbs are permitted. Pavement width is measured from the inside face of the curbs, which is the gutter line.
SCHEDULE 727.06 MINIMUM STREET DESIGN STANDARDS
Street Category | Total Right- of-Way | Pavements | For each side of the street | |||
Curb Width | Tree Lawn | Sidewal k | Border | |||
Primary Thoroughfare | 80 feet | 52 feet | 0.5 feet | 8 feet | 5 feet | 0.5 feet |
Secondary Thoroughfare | 60 feet | 32 feet | 0.5 feet | 8 feet | 5 feet | 0.5 feet |
Local Street | 60 feet | 26 feet | 0.5 feet | 12 feet | 5 feet | 0.5 feet |
Marginal Access | 50 feet | 26 feet | 2 feet | 12(1) feet | 5(1) feet | 1.5 feet |
(1) One side of street only. | ||||||
(Ord. 14-23. Passed 12-11-23.)