(a) Utility Easements. All electric and telephone lines shall be located underground. Easements to be a minimum of ten feet wide along front lot lines, five feet along side and rear lot lines, except where wider easements are required. Easements along front lot lines to be available for sanitary, storm, and water utilities also.
(b) Drainage Easements. Where a subdivision is traversed by a drainageway, a storm sewer or drainage easement conforming substantially with the lines of the drainageway shall be provided. The easement shall be not less than twenty feet wide, or wider as the City may require where necessary, and shall generally follow, but not be centered upon, rear and side lot lines. Easements for drainage purposes shall be constructed or defined on the ground by the developer before the allotment plat is accepted. In instances where the watercourse is not presently channeled or visible, the developer shall define the watercourse by excavating or grading.
(Ord. 2007-222. Passed 1-10-08.)