86-9143 Subdivision Regulations(Published in The Salina Journal Julya;15, 1986)
ORDINANCE NUMBER 86-9143
AN ORDINANCE REQUIRING MINIMUM SIXTY (60) FOOT STREET
RIGHT-OF-WAY FOR COLLECTOR STREETS; AMENDING SECTION 36-74 OF THE
SALINA CODE, AND REPEALING THE EXISTING SECTION.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Governing Body of the City of Salina,
Kansas:
Section 1. That Section 36-74 of the Salina Code is hereby amended to
read as follows:
"Section 36-74. Streets.
(a) General requirements:
(1) Frontage on improved streets. No subdivision
shall be approved unless the area to be subdivided
shall have frontage on and access from an existing
state, county, or township highway; or a street
shown upon a plat approved by the planning
commission and recorded in the county register of
deeds' office. The planning commission shall
further require that the entire right-of-way
required by this chapter and official street
classification plan and/or major street plan be
dedicated to the board of commissioners as a
condition of final plat approval.
(2) Topography and arrangement:
a. All streets shall be arranged so as to obtain
as many building sites as possible at or above
the grades of the streets. Grades of streets
shall conform 'was closely as possible to the
original topography. A combination of steep
grades and curves shall be avoided.
b. All streets shall be properly integrated with
the existing and proposed system of
thoroughfares and dedicated rights-of-way as
established on the official street classification
plan and/or major street plan.
C. All thoroughfares shall be properly related to
special traffic generators such as industries,
business districts, schools, churches and
shopping centers; to population densities and
to the pattern of existing and proposed land
uses.
d. Residential streets shall be laid out to
conform as closely as possible to the
topography, to discourage use by through
traffic, to permit efficient drainage and utility
systems, and to require the minimum number
of streets necessary to provide convenient
and safe access to property.
e. The use of curvilinear streets, cul-de-sacs or
U-shaped streets shall be encouraged.
f. In business or industrial developments, the
streets and other accessways shall be planned
in connection with the grouping of buildings,
location of rail facilities and the provision of
alleys, truck loading and maneuvering areas,
walks and parking areas so as to minimize
conflict of movement between the various
types of traffic, including pedestrian.
(3) Blocks:
a. Blocks shall have sufficient width to provide
for two (2) tiers of lots of appropriate
depths. Exceptions to this prescribed block
width shall be permitted in blocks adjacent to
railroads, waterways, arterials or unplatted
property.
b. The lengths, widths and shapes of blocks
shall be such as are appropriate for the
locality and the type of development
contemplated, but block lengths in residential
areas shall not exceed three thousand two
hundred (3,200) feet in perimeter
measurement. Non -through streets
(cul-de-sacs) shall not be included in the
perimeter measurement. Blocks along
arterials shall not be less than eight hundred
(800) feet in length.
C. The planning commission may require the
reservation of easements and/or rights-of-way
through blocks to accommodate utilities,
drainage facilities or pedestrian traffic.
Pedestrianways or crosswalks, not less
than ten (10) feet wide may be required by
the planning commission through blocks more
than eight hundred (800) feet long in order
to provide circulation or access to schools,
playgrounds, shopping center, transportation
or other community facilities.
Blocks designed for industrial use shall
be of such length and width as may be
determined suitable by the planning
commission for prospective use.
(4) Access to arterials. Where a subdivision borders
on or contains an existing or proposed arterial,
the planning commission may require that access to
such arterial streets be limited by one of the
following means:
a. The subdivision of land so that lots back onto
the arterial and front onto a parallel local
street; no access shall be provided from
arterials and screening shall be provided by
the developer in a strip of land along the
rear property line of such lots.
b. A series of cul-de-sacs, U-shaped streets, or
short loops entered from and designed
generally at right angles to such a parallel
street, with the rear lines of their terminal
lots backing onto the arterial. No access to
the arterial shall be allowed.
C. A frontage street (separated from the arterial
by a planting or grass strip and having
access thereto at suitable points).
(5) Names shall be sufficiently different in sound and
in spelling from other street names in the city, so
as not to cause confusion. A street which is, or
is planned as, a continuation of an existing street
shall bear the same name.
(6) Except as required in subsection (a) (4) , the
creation of reserve strips adjacent to a proposed
street in such a manner as to deny access from
adjacent property to such street shall not be
permitted.
(7) Layout and dedication of streets and dead-end
streets:
b. Dead-end streets (permanent). A dead-end
street shall be designed as a cul-de-sac
street and shall consist of a fifty (50) foot
right-of-way leading from a street terminated
by a circular turnaround. The right-of-way
of the turnaround shall not be less than one
hundred (100) feet in diameter. The
maximum length of a cul-de-sac street shall
be six hundred (600) feet from the
right-of-way line of the commencing street
along the centerline right-of-way of the
cul-de-sac to the right-of-way line of the
turnaround. See section 36-77(a)(1).
(b) Design standards:
(1) General. In order to provide for streets of suitable
location, width and improvement to accommodate
prospective traffic and afford satisfactory access
to police, fire -fighting, snow removal, sanitation
and road -maintenance equipment, and to coordinate
streets so as to compose a convenient system and
avoid undue hardships to adjoining properties, the
following design standards are hereby required
(see table 1) . Street classification may be
indicated on the official street classification and/or
major street plan; otherwise, it shall be determined
by the planning commission.
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a. Dedication of streets. The arrangement of
streets shall provide for the continuation of
principal streets between adjacent properties
when such continuation is necessary for
convenient movement of traffic, effective fire
protection, efficient provisions of utilities,
and where such continuation is in accordance
with the city plan. If the adjacent property
is undeveloped and the street must be a
dead-end street temporarily, the right-of-way
shall be extended to the property line. A
temporary cul-de-sac shall be provided on all
temporary dead-end streets, with the notation
on the subdivision plat that land outside the
normal street right-of-way shall revert to
abuttors whenever the street is continued.
The planning commission may limit the length
of temporary dead-end streets in accordance
with the design standards of this chapter.
b. Dead-end streets (permanent). A dead-end
street shall be designed as a cul-de-sac
street and shall consist of a fifty (50) foot
right-of-way leading from a street terminated
by a circular turnaround. The right-of-way
of the turnaround shall not be less than one
hundred (100) feet in diameter. The
maximum length of a cul-de-sac street shall
be six hundred (600) feet from the
right-of-way line of the commencing street
along the centerline right-of-way of the
cul-de-sac to the right-of-way line of the
turnaround. See section 36-77(a)(1).
(b) Design standards:
(1) General. In order to provide for streets of suitable
location, width and improvement to accommodate
prospective traffic and afford satisfactory access
to police, fire -fighting, snow removal, sanitation
and road -maintenance equipment, and to coordinate
streets so as to compose a convenient system and
avoid undue hardships to adjoining properties, the
following design standards are hereby required
(see table 1) . Street classification may be
indicated on the official street classification and/or
major street plan; otherwise, it shall be determined
by the planning commission.
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Cul-de-sac
Turnaround 100' Dia. 90' B -B Dia. - -
50' 33' B -B
(2) Railroads and limited access highways. Railroad rights-of-way
and imil ted access highways where located as to affect the
subdivision of adjoining lands shall be treated as follows:
a. In residential districts a buffer strip at least twenty-five
(25) feet in depth in addition to the normal depth of the lot
required in the district shall be provided adjacent to the
railroad right-of-way or limited access highway. This strip
shall be part of the platted lots and shall be designated on
the plat: "this strip is reserved for screening. The
placement of habitable structures hereon is prohibited."
b. Streets parallel to the railroad, when intersecting a street
which crosses the railroad at grade shall be a distance of at
lease one hundred fifty (150) feet from the railroad
right-of-way. Such distance shall be determined with due
consideration of the minimum distance required for future
separation of grades by means of appropriate approach
gradients.
(3) Intersections:
a. Streets shall be laid out so as to intersect as nearly as
possible at right angles. A proposed intersection of two (2)
new streets shall have no angle less than seventy-five (75)
degrees. An oblique street shall be curved approaching an
intersection and be approximately at right angles for at least
one hundred feet from the intersection. Not more than two
(2) streets shall intersect at any one point unless
specifically approved by the planning commission.
b. A proposed new intersection along one side of an existing
arterial street shall, wherever practicable, coincide with any
existing intersections on the opposite side of such street.
Street jobs with centerline offsets of less than one hundred
fifty (150) feet shall not be permitted on any class street,
except where the intersected street has separated dual
drives without median breaks at either intersection.
Intersections of streets along arterials shall be at least eight
hundred (800) feet apart.
C. Street dedications and reservations:
1. New perimeter streets. Street systems in new
suEdivisions shall be laid out so as to eliminate or avoid
new perimeter half streets except when necessary for
street alignment. Where an existing half street is
adjacent to a new subdivision, the other half of the
street shall be dedicated by the subdivider. The
planning commission may authorize a new perimeter
street where the subdivider dedicated the entire
STREET DESIGN STANDARDS
Table I
Min.
Tangent
Length
Street
Min. R/W
Min. Pvmt.
Min. Curve
Between
Classification
Width
Width
Radius
Curves
Arterial Street
100'
53' B -B
500'
200'
Collector Street
60'
41' B -B
300'
100'
Residential Street
60'
33' B -B
150'
100'
Frontage Street
50'
Variable
150'
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Cul-de-sac
Turnaround 100' Dia. 90' B -B Dia. - -
50' 33' B -B
(2) Railroads and limited access highways. Railroad rights-of-way
and imil ted access highways where located as to affect the
subdivision of adjoining lands shall be treated as follows:
a. In residential districts a buffer strip at least twenty-five
(25) feet in depth in addition to the normal depth of the lot
required in the district shall be provided adjacent to the
railroad right-of-way or limited access highway. This strip
shall be part of the platted lots and shall be designated on
the plat: "this strip is reserved for screening. The
placement of habitable structures hereon is prohibited."
b. Streets parallel to the railroad, when intersecting a street
which crosses the railroad at grade shall be a distance of at
lease one hundred fifty (150) feet from the railroad
right-of-way. Such distance shall be determined with due
consideration of the minimum distance required for future
separation of grades by means of appropriate approach
gradients.
(3) Intersections:
a. Streets shall be laid out so as to intersect as nearly as
possible at right angles. A proposed intersection of two (2)
new streets shall have no angle less than seventy-five (75)
degrees. An oblique street shall be curved approaching an
intersection and be approximately at right angles for at least
one hundred feet from the intersection. Not more than two
(2) streets shall intersect at any one point unless
specifically approved by the planning commission.
b. A proposed new intersection along one side of an existing
arterial street shall, wherever practicable, coincide with any
existing intersections on the opposite side of such street.
Street jobs with centerline offsets of less than one hundred
fifty (150) feet shall not be permitted on any class street,
except where the intersected street has separated dual
drives without median breaks at either intersection.
Intersections of streets along arterials shall be at least eight
hundred (800) feet apart.
C. Street dedications and reservations:
1. New perimeter streets. Street systems in new
suEdivisions shall be laid out so as to eliminate or avoid
new perimeter half streets except when necessary for
street alignment. Where an existing half street is
adjacent to a new subdivision, the other half of the
street shall be dedicated by the subdivider. The
planning commission may authorize a new perimeter
street where the subdivider dedicated the entire
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required street right-of-way width within his own
subdivision boundaries.
2. Widening and realignment of existing streets. Where a
subdivision borders an existing narrow street or when
the master plan, official map or zoning setback
regulations indicate plans for realignment or widening of
a street that would require use of some of the land in
the subdivision, the applicant shall be required to
dedicate such areas for widening or realignment of such
street. Such frontage streets shall be dedicated by the
applicant at his own expense to 'the full width as
required by this chapter. Land reserved for any
street purposes may not be counted in satisfying yard
or area requirements of the zoning ordinance whether
the land is to be dedicated to the city in fee simple or
an easement for roadway purposes is granted to the
city."
Section 2. That the existing Section 36-74 of the Salina Code is
hereby repealed.
Section 3. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and
after its adoption and publication once in the official city newspaper.
[SEAL]
ATTEST:
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D. L. Harrison, City Clerk
Introduced: July 14, 1986
Passed: July 21, 1986
/os:eph'M. Ritter, Mayor