The purpose of this section is to provide a procedure for opening or widening streets as well as the location and alignment of streets.
(A) Opening or widening of streets; platted streets.
(1) Whenever a street classified in the Thoroughfare Plan is to be platted as a part of a subdivision, the required right-of-way width designated for such street shall be as specified in the Thoroughfare Plan.
(2) Where a street borders a tract of land to be subdivided, the owner of such land shall be required to plat only one-half of the right-of-way width designated for such street, measured at 90 degrees to the centerline thereof.
(B) Location and alignment of streets; following an existing road or street.
(1) Whenever the location of a street is indicated in the Thoroughfare Plan as following an existing road or street, or a section or half-section or quarter-section or other established property line, the location of the street shall conform to such location.
(2) A street lying wholly within a subdivision, and not designated as following an existing road or established property line, may be varied in its alignment when such variance promotes the plan of a neighborhood development unit in accordance with good site planning principles, and if such alignment provides for continuity of traffic movement.
(3) Whenever the location of a street is indicated in the Thoroughfare Plan as following an irregular alignment, or a revised alignment or is not referenced to an established line, it shall follow the alignment shown in the Thoroughfare Plan.
(4) Such alignment shall be subject to a detailed survey which may be made by the Commission or other public agencies, or by the owners of the land to be subdivided, if required by the Commission.
(5) The survey for such street shall be subject to the approval of the Commission prior to the dedication of the street.
(Ord., § 1-43, passed - -1991)