(A) The arrangement, character, extent, width, grade, and location of all streets shall conform to the Comprehensive Plan and shall be considered in their relation to existing and planned streets, to topographic 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 is not shown in the Comprehensive Plan, the arrangement of existing principal streets in a subdivision shall either:
(1) Provide for the continuation of appropriate projection of existing principal streets in surrounding areas; or
(2) Conform to a plan for the neighborhood approved or adopted by the Planning Commission and Council to meet a particular situation where topographical or other conditions make continuance or conformance to existing streets impracticable.
(C) The street pattern shall be adequate to serve platted lots when developed and shall not be such as to obstruct the development of adjoining unsubdivided lands in conformity with the Comprehensive Plan and platting, existing or proposed, as shown on the official map.
(D) Minor streets shall be so laid out that their use by through traffic will be discouraged.
(E) Where a subdivision abuts or contains an existing or proposed arterial street, the Planning Commission may require marginal access streets, reverse frontage with screen planting contained in a non-access reservation along the rear property line, deep lots with rear service alleys, or such other treatment as may be necessary for adequate protection of residential properties and which will afford separation of through and local traffic.
(F) 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, as for park purposes in residential districts, or for commercial or industrial purposes in appropriate districts. Such distances shall also be determined with due regard for the requirements of approach grades and future grade separations.
(G) Street jogs with center line offsets of less than 100 feet shall be prohibited.
(H) Streets shall intersect or intercept each other at right angles with variation of not more than ten degrees permitted when considered necessary.
(I) Names of streets which are extensions of existing streets shall be the same. No street names shall be used which will duplicate or be confused with the names of separate existing streets. Street names shall be subject to the approval of the Council.
(J) At residential street corners the street lines (property lines) at each corner shall be connected by a circular arc having a radius of not less than ten feet, and the curb line (or lines designating outside edges of roadways) shall be connected by a circular arc having a radius of not less than 15 feet. At business and industrial corners, these lines shall be similarly connected by arcs or their equivalent chords according to standards approved by the Council.
(K) Half-width streets shall be prohibited except where essential to the reasonable development of the subdivision in conformity with the other requirements of these regulations. Where an existing, half-width street adjoins a portion of the boundary of a proposed subdivision, street dedication in a width needed to make this a full width street may be required.
(L) Streets for residential development shall not be less than 80 feet in width. Dead-end streets shall be less than 500 feet in length wherever possible. The roadway diameter at the dead-end shall be not less than 100 feet and the street property line diameter not less than 120 feet.
(M) (1) Unlimited access to railroads, trunk highway, and major thoroughfares including all limited-access traffic ways, shall be discouraged.
(2) Local service streets parallel to any such facility or the rearing of lots upon its right-of-way line with intersections at infrequent intervals only, four or less per mile, and at regular spacing shall be encouraged.
(N) (1) For all public ways hereafter dedicated and accepted, the minimum right-of-way widths for streets and thoroughfares shall be shown on the Comprehensive Plan and where not shown therein, the minimum right-of-way width for streets, arterial highways, or pedestrian ways included in any subdivision shall not be less than the minimum dimensions for each classifications as follows:
Class | Desirable | Acceptable |
Class | Desirable | Acceptable |
Alley | 20 feet | |
Collector streets | 80 feet | 80 feet |
Local streets | 80 feet | |
Marg. Serv. Acc. Roads | 50 feet | |
Minor arterial highway | 80 feet | |
Pedestrian way | 10 feet | |
Principal arterial highway | 104 feet | 80 feet |
(2) Where existing or anticipated traffic on principal and minor arterial highways warrants greater widths of rights-of-way, these shall be required.
(2006 Code, § 12.05)