03-10144 Street Design Standardfnnwlaa�eA-Saline
(Published in the Salina Journal on August '30, 2003)
ORDINANCE NUMBER 03-10144
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 36, ARTICLE III, SECTION 36-74.1 OF
THE SALINA CODE PERTAINING TO STREET DESIGN STANDARDS AND
REPEALING THE EXISTING SECTION 36-74.1.
BE IT ORDAINED by the Governing Body of the City of Salina, Kansas:
Section 1. That Section 36-74.1 of Chapter 36, Article III of the Salina Code is hereby
amended to read as follows:
"Sec. 36-74.1. Street design standards.
(a) Public streets. 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 I). Street classification may be indicated on the official street
classification and/or major street plan; otherwise, it shall be determined by the
planning commission. These standards may be modified on a showing that special
conditions exist such as drainage and utility requirements, safe and efficient traffic
movement, intersection design and so forth. Access control and acceleration and
deceleration lanes may be required to properly handle traffic flow and to protect the
carrying capacity of the street. Public streets shall be constructed in accordance with
city design standards and specifications.
Table I
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*Back of curb to back of curb.
**Allows for an optional island with a fifteen -foot radius in residential areas.
(b) Private streets.
(1) Private streets may be approved within planned development districts in
accordance with section 42-403(a)(11) when:
a. The proposed private streets will have direct access onto a public
street;
b. The proposed private streets are not necessary to provide direct traffic
access to public streets from properties located outside the
development;
C. The proposed private streets are so laid out or designed so as to
discourage through traffic; and
Min.
Tangent
Min.
Length
Min. R/W
Min. Pvmt.
Curve
Between
Street
Width
Width *
Radius
Curves
Classification
eet)
eet)(feet)(feet)
Arterial
5 -lane
100
65
500
200
4 -lane
80
53
500
200
Collector
3 -lane
70
41
300
150
2 -lane
60
33
300
150
Local street
50
29
150
100
Frontage road
50
25
150
100
Cul-de-sac
Approach
50
29
150
100
Turnaround
100
80**
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*Back of curb to back of curb.
**Allows for an optional island with a fifteen -foot radius in residential areas.
(b) Private streets.
(1) Private streets may be approved within planned development districts in
accordance with section 42-403(a)(11) when:
a. The proposed private streets will have direct access onto a public
street;
b. The proposed private streets are not necessary to provide direct traffic
access to public streets from properties located outside the
development;
C. The proposed private streets are so laid out or designed so as to
discourage through traffic; and
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d. The proposed private streets will provide for adequate access, the safe
movement of traffic, proper drainage and serve as an adequate
alternative to a public street.
(2) 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
owner's association. No private street may be dedicated to or 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."
(3) When private streets are proposed, the developer shall submit to the planning
commission for approval a written and binding declaration, to be recorded
with the final plat establishing an owner's association or similar legal entity
which will have:
a. The legal authority to maintain and exercise control over the street;
and
b. The power to compel contributions from owners within the
development to cover their proportionate shares of the cost associated
with maintenance of the street.
In order to determine whether the monthly or annual contributions will be
adequate, the developer's design engineer shall prepare: and submit estimates
of the cost of maintaining the proposed private street system at a level that is
consistent with the city's public street maintenance program. The city
engineer shall review the cost estimates and inform the planning commission
and board of commissioners whether the dues to be assessed will generate
sufficient funds to perform needed future street maintenance.
(4) Private streets shall be designed so as to provide a minimum of fifty (50) feet
of right-of-way and twenty-nine (29) feet of paved driving surface. Private
cul-de-sacs shall be designed to provide a minimum of twenty-five (25) feet
of circular paved driving surface with the outer edge of the pavement having
a minimum radius of forty (40) feet within a right-of-way having a minimum
radius fifty (50) feet. All private streets shall conform to the design standards
for public streets established by the city engineer which are herein adopted by
reference as if set out at length in this section. Design plans for proposed
private streets must be reviewed and approved by the City Engineer prior to
construction.
The board of commissioners may, following receipt of a recommendation
from the planning commission, grant a variance from one or more of the
city's design standards for public streets if it finds:
a. Granting the variance will not be detrimental to the public safety,
health, or welfare or injurious to other property.
b. The conditions upon which the request for a variance is based are
unique to the property for which the variance is sought and are not
applicable generally to other property.
Because of the particular physical surroundings, shape or topographical
conditions of the specific property involved, a particular hardship to the
owner would result, if the public street standards were complied with.
d. The special or peculiar conditions upon which the request is based did
not result from or were not created by an act of the property owner.
(5) The planning commission may restrict on -street parking on private streets as
a condition of plat approval if the Commission deems it necessary to improve
traffic circulation or traffic safety.
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(6) The planning commission may require the installation of sidewalks along
private streets as a condition of plat approval if the Commission deems it
necessary in order to provide safe pedestrian access to nearby schools, parks,
playgrounds, shopping centers or other community facilities.
(7) Street names shall be assigned by the developer, subject to planning
commission approval, by placing the name on the plat. Names shall be
sufficiently different in sound and spelling so as not to cause conflict or
confusion with existing public or private streets. The city shall install street
name signs within the public right-of-way at the intersection of public streets
and private streets. Street name signs shall be installed by the developer at all
other intersections within the development prior to issuance of any building
permits. The private street name signs shall be constructed, located and
installed in accordance with design standards established by the city engineer.
(8) All lots and tracts which have frontage on and take their primary access from
a named private street shall have an address assigned off of that private street.
(9) For the purpose of this section, a "private street" shall mean any open way
used for vehicular traffic, not dedicated to the public and not a shared
driveway or part of a parking lot, designed and used to provide vehicular
access to two (2) or more lots or tracts.
(c) 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
treated as follows:
(1) 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."
(2) Streets parallel to 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.
(d) Intersections:
(1) 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 point unless specifically approved by the planning commission.
(2) A proposed new intersection along one (1) 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."
Section 2. That the existing Section 36-74.1 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.
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ATTEST:
Lieu Arm Nicola, City Clerk
Introduced: August 18, 2003
Passed: August 25, 2003
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