96-9760 Subdivision Regulations(Published in The Salina Journal Septembers/, 1996)
ORDINANCE NUMBER 96-9760
AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE AMENDMENT OF
SECTION 36-74 OF THE SALINA CODE PERTAINING TO DESIGN
STANDARDS FOR PRIVATE STREETS, 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. General street requirements.
(a) 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.
(b) Topography and arrangement:
(1) 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.
(2) 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.
(3) 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.
(4) 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.
(5) The use of curvilinear streets, cul-de-sacs or U-shaped
streets shall be encouraged.
(6) In business or industrial developments, the streets and
other access ways shall be planned in connection with
the grouping of buildings, location or 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.
(c) Blocks:
(1) 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.
(2) 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.
(3) The Planning Commission may require the reservation of
easements and/or rights-of-way through blocks to
accommodate utilities, drainage facilities or pedestrian
traffic.
Pedestrian ways 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 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.
(d) 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:
(1) The subdivision of land so that lots back onto the arterial
and front onto a parallel local street; no access shall be
provided by the developer in a strip of land along the
rear property line of such lots.
(2) 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.
(3) A frontage street (separated from the arterial by a
planting or grass strip and having access thereto at
suitable points.)
(e) 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.
(f) Except as required in subsection (d), 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.
(g) Layout and dedication of streets and dead-end streets:
(1) 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 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.
(2) 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 turn around 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 out of the cul-de-sac to the right-of-way
line of the turnaround. See section 36-77 (a)(1).
Section 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.
Street Design Standards
Table I
Min.
Tangent
Length
Street
Min. R/W
Min. Pvmt.
Min.
Between
Classification
Width
Width
Curve
Curves
Radius
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
Min. 24 -
Street
50'
Max. 33'
150'
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Cul-de-sac
Approach
50'
33'(29')B -B*
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Turnaround
100' (90') Dia.*
90'(80')B -B*
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* 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.
(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
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.
(4) Private streets shall be designed so as to provide a
minimum of forty-five (45) feet of right-of-way and
twenty-five (25) feet of paved driving surface. Private
cul-de-sacs shall be designed to provide a minimum of
twenty (20) feet of circular paved driving surface with
the outer edge of the pavement having a minimum radius
of thirty-five (35) feet within a right-of-way having a
minimum radius forty (40) feet. All private streets shall
conform to the design standards established by the City
Engineer which is herein adopted by reference as if set
out at length in this section.
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(5) 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.
(6) 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.
(7) 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 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 onehundredfifty(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 36-74.2 Street dedications and reservations.
(a) New perimeter streets. Street systems in new subdivisions
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 their own subdivision.
(b) 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
Section 3. That this ordinance shall be in full force and effect from and after its
and publication once in the official city newspaper.
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Introduced: September 9, 1996
Passed: September 16, 1996
Evelyn Maxwell, Mayor