(a) The arrangement, character, extent, width and location of all streets shall conform to the Comprehensive Plan and shall be considered in their relation to existing and planned streets, to topographical conditions, to public convenience and safety, and in their appropriate relation to the proposed uses of the land to be served by such streets.
(b) Where such streets are not shown on the Comprehensive Plan, the arrangement of streets in a subdivision shall either:
(1) Provide for the continuation or appropriate projection of existing streets in surrounding areas; or
(2) Conform to a plan for the neighborhood approved or adopted by the Planning Commission.
(c) Local streets shall be so laid out that their use by through traffic will be dis couraged.
(d) Where a subdivision abuts or contains an existing or proposed arterial street, the Planning Commission may require marginal access streets and controlled access points (see Appendix I); reverse frontage with screen planting contained in a nonaccess reservation along the rear property line; deep lots with rear service access, or such other treatment as may be necessary for adequate protection of residential properties and to afford separation of through and local traffic.
(e) Where a subdivision borders on or contains a railroad right of way or limited access highway right of way, the Planning Commission may require a street approximately parallel to and on each side of such right of way, at a distance suitable for the appropriate use of the intervening land for park or open space purposes in residential districts, or for commercial or industrial purposes in other appropriate districts. Such distances shall also be determined with due regard for the requirements of approach grades and future grade separations.
(f) Reserve strips controlling access to streets shall be prohibited except where their control is definitely placed with the City under conditions approved by the Planning Commission, Engineer and Law Director.
(g) Street jogs with center line offsets of less than 125 feet (see Appendix II) shall not be permitted.
(h) A tangent at least 100 feet long shall be introduced between reverse curves on major arterial and collector streets.
(i) Streets shall be laid out so as to intersect as nearly as possible at right angles and no streets shall intersect any other street at less than sixty degrees.
(j) Right-of-way lines at street intersections shall be rounded with a radius of twenty feet, or of a greater radius where the Planning Commission may deem it necessary.
(k) Cul-de-sac streets, designed to be so permanently, shall not be longer than 550 feet unless topography or other circumstances beyond the developers control necessitate longer streets, and shall be provided at the closed end with a turnaround having an outside roadway diameter of at least eighty-four feet, and a street property line diameter of at least 120 feet (see Appendix II).
(l) Street names for a proposed subdivision shall be selected by the owner which will not duplicate or be confused with the names of existing streets in Cuyahoga County irrespective of modifying terms such as street, avenue and boulevard. Streets that are or will eventually be continuations of existing or platted streets shall be of the same name.
Street names shall be subject to the approval of the Planning Commission and wherever possible shall be in accordance with the following system:
General Direction | Long Continuous | Short Disconnected |
North-South | Streets | Places |
East-West | Avenues | Courts |
Diagonal | Roads | WaysWays |
Curving | Drives | Lanes or circles |
(m) Street grades, wherever feasible, shall not exceed the following, with due allowance for reasonable vertical curves:
Street Type | Grade (Percent) |
Major arterial | 5 |
Industrial | 5 |
Collector | 5 |
Local collector | 10 |
Local | 10 |
(n) No street grade shall be less than 0.5 percent unless approved by the Engineer.
(Ord. 1967-163. Passed 12-18-67.)
(Ord. 1967-163. Passed 12-18-67.)