87-9188 Subdivision RegulationsJ
(Published in The Salina Journal May,96 , 1987)
ORDINANCE NUMBER 87-9188
AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING MINIMUM DESIGN STANDARDS FOR
MAJOR AND MINOR LOCAL STREETS, AND FOR PRIVATE STREETS WITHIN
PLANNED DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS; 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:
"Sec. 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
Ito 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 as 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 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, playground,
shopping centers, 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.
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(7) Layout and dedication of streets and dead end streets:
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
provision 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 abutters
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 line of the cul-de-sac to the
right-of-way line of the turnaround. See section
36-77(a)(1).
(b) Desiqn standards:
(1) General requirements. 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
street 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.
Street Design Standards
Table I
* Reduced standards apply only to loop streets, cul-de-sacs
and short segments no longer than six hundred (600) feet.
In no instance shall a short segment street be approved
which does not terminate at an intersection or connect to a
cul-de-sac and which serves more than twenty (20) lots. In
order to take advantage of the reduced right-of-way and
paving width requirements for local streets and the reduced
Min.
Tangent
Min.
Min.
Min.
Length
Street
R/W
Pvmt
Curve
Between
Classification
Width
Width
Radius
Curves
Arterial Street
100'
53' B -B
500'
200'
Collector Street
60'
41' B -B
300'
100'
Local Street
60' (50')
33' (29') B -B*
150'
100'
Frontage Street
50'
Min.241-Max.33'
150'
Cul-de-sac
Approach
50'
33' (29') B -B
Turnaround
100'Dia.
901(801) B-13
* Reduced standards apply only to loop streets, cul-de-sacs
and short segments no longer than six hundred (600) feet.
In no instance shall a short segment street be approved
which does not terminate at an intersection or connect to a
cul-de-sac and which serves more than twenty (20) lots. In
order to take advantage of the reduced right-of-way and
paving width requirements for local streets and the reduced
turnaround diameter for cul-de-sacs, a developer must first
agree to provide four (4) off-street parking spaces per
dwelling unit, and a note to that effect must be placed on
the final subdivision plat.
(2) Private streets. Private streets may be established
within Planned Development Districts in accordance with
Sec. 42-403(a)(11). The following minimum standards
apply to private street proposals:
a. All private streets shall be designed so as to
provide forty (40) feet of right-of-way and twenty
(20) feet of paved surface.
b. Private streets shall not be permitted where
potential future development beyond the properties
abutting the private street would require use of
the private street for direct access to adjacent
public streets.
C. A notation shall be placed on all plats of any
subdivision in which private streets are established
stating that "All maintenance of the right-of-way
and street surface shall be the responsibility of
the abutting property owner or homeowner's
association. No private street may be dedicated to
no accepted by the City of Salina for public street
purposes until it is brought into conformance with
the minimum standards for public streets of the
City".
d. The developer of any subdivision in which a
private street is established shall provide the
planning commission with a maintenance agreement
indicating that the abutting property owner or
homeowner's association agrees to assume the
financial and legal responsibility for maintenance
and operation of any such private street.
e. The developer shall install and maintain signs at
intersections of public and private streets which
read: "Private Street".
f. Easements shall be provided over all private
streets permitting access by municipal employees
and vehicles for the purpose of providing
necessary public services to the residents or
owners of areas served by such private streets.
(3) Railroads and limited access highways. Railroad
rights-of-way and limited access highways where located
as to affect the subdivision of adjoining lands shall be
treaded 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 with the railroad, when
intersecting a street which crosses the railroad at
grade shall be a distance of at least 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.
(4) 1 ntersections :
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 (100) 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 jogs 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
su divisions 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 dedicates the entire
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 street 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. That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from
and after its adoption and publication once in the official city newspaper.
[SEAL]
ATTEST:
D. L. Harrison, City Clerk
Introduced:
Passed:
May 4, 1987
May 18, 1987
Stephen C. Ryan, ayor