(a) Local streets are designed primarily to serve as access to each abutting lot. While it is essential that they provide convenient circulation toward the principal directions of travel (schools, play areas, transit facilities and adjoining neighborhoods), they should be designed to discourage through traffic. These principles may be achieved by designing loop, angular, curving and other similar non-through street patterns.
(b) Cul-de-sac streets shall be permitted as necessary to serve parcels isolated by surrounding developments, or where topography or other natural barriers restrict the development of through streets, or in order to limit through traffic.
(1) Cul-de-sacs should not exceed 600 feet in length; and
(2) A permanent turn-around shall be provided having an outside roadway diameter of at least ninety-one feet and a street property line diameter of at least 125 feet.
(c) Temporary dead-end streets may be permitted where a subdivision adjoins unsubdivided land and provision is made for future extensions of the street and utilities. A temporary turn-around shall be provided for each such street that is more than 200 feet in length if lots front thereon.
(d) If it is found that any or all of the temporary streets are not needed, there is a reversionary right in the abutting landowners for the excess right-of-way when the use of such right-of-way as a residential lot would be nonconforming with the provisions of the zoning district in which it is located.
(e) Local residential streets serving other than one-family or two-family dwellings shall be planned to connect with primary or secondary thoroughfares and shall not generate large volumes of traffic on local streets developed with one-family or two-family dwellings.
(Ord. 14-23. Passed 12-11-23.)