[Amended 2-23-1982; 9-16-2014 by L.L. No. 3-2014]
Streets shall be suitably located, having widths as specified in § 103-69 and adequately constructed to accommodate the prospective traffic and to afford satisfactory access to police, firefighting, snow-removal and other road maintenance equipment. The arrangement of streets shall be such as not to cause undue hardship to adjoining properties and shall be coordinated so as to compose a convenient system.
The arrangement, width, grade and location of
all streets shall conform to the Master Plan and any plan for the
neighborhood approved by the Planning Board and shall be considered
in 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 street.
[Amended 2-28-1989 by L.L. No. 2-1989]
Local, minor and rural streets shall be planned
so that their use by through traffic will be discouraged.
A.
Streets shall be logically related to the topography
of the property, and all streets shall be arranged so as to obtain
as many as possible of the building sites at or above the grades of
streets.
B.
The grades of streets shall conform as closely as
possible to the original topography. A combination of steep grades
and sharp curves shall be avoided.
A.
Where a subdivision abuts or contains an existing
or proposed major street, the Planning Board may require marginal
access streets, reverse frontage with screen planting contained in
a nonaccess reservation along the property line or such other treatment
as may be necessary for adequate protection of residential properties
and to afford separation of through and local traffic.
B.
Where the subdivision abuts or fronts onto a major
street, sidewalks shall be required of a size and type to be approved
by the Planning Board.
C.
Where a subdivision borders on or contains a railroad
right-of-way or limited-acess highway right-of-way, the Planning Board
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, such as for park purposes in residential
districts. Such distances shall be determined with due regard for
the requirements of approach grades and future grade separations.
Where a tract is subdivided into lots substantially
larger than the minimum size required in the zoning district in which
a subdivision is located, the Planning Board may require that streets
and lots be laid out so as to permit future resubdivision in accordance
with the requirements contained in these regulations.
Where the subdivision borders on an existing
street and the Master Plan, the County Superintendent of Highways
or the Town Superintendent of Highways indicates plans for realignment
or widening of the street that would require reservation of some land
of the subdivision, the Planning Board shall require that such areas
be shown and marked on the subdivision plat as "reserved for street
realignment (or widening) purposes."
The minimum building setback shall be 30 feet
from the front property line.
A.
Intersections of major streets by other streets shall
be held to a minimum and shall be at least 800 feet apart, if possible.
B.
Cross-street intersections shall be avoided, except
at important traffic intersections.
C.
A distance of at least 250 feet shall be maintained
between offset intersections.
D.
Within 100 feet of an intersection right-of-way, streets
shall be approximately at right angles.
E.
All street intersection corners shall be rounded by
curves of at least 10 feet in radius at the property line.
F.
Within triangular areas formed by the intersection
of two street property lines and a third line joining them at points
at a distance of 25 feet away from their intersection, visibility
for traffic safety shall be provided by excavating, if necessary.
Nothing in the way of fences, walls, hedges or other landscaping shall
be permitted to obstruct such visibility.
A.
Half streets shall be prohibited except where it is
necessary to provide the remaining half of a previously approved half
or narrow street.
B.
Reserve strips controlling access to streets shall
be prohibited except where their control is placed with the Town under
conditions approved by the Planning Board.
A.
Where a street does not extend to the boundary of
the subdivision and its continuation is not needed for access to adjoining
property, it shall be separated from such boundary by a distance not
less than the minimum lot depth prescribed by the Zoning Ordinance.[1]
B.
Reserve strips of land shall not be left between the
end of a proposed street and an adjacent piece of property. However,
the Planning Board may require the reservation of a twenty-foot-wide
easement to accommodate pedestrian traffic or utilities to the next
street.
C.
A circular turnaround shall be provided at the end
of a permanent cul-de-sac street.
D.
A circular turnaround shall be provided at the end
of a temporary cul-de-sac street. Deed requirements for the temporary
turnaround shall be in a form certified as satisfactory by the Town
Attorney.
E.
Cul-de-sac streets with divided pavements or center
malls shall be prohibited.
A.
The arrangement of streets shall provide for the continuation
of existing streets between adjacent properties where 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 Master Plan.
B.
If the adjacent property is undeveloped and the street
must be a dead-end street temporarily, the right-of-way and improvements
shall be extended to the property line. A temporary circular turnaround
of a minimum of 50 feet in radius shall be provided on all temporary
dead-end streets, with the notation on the plat that the land outside
the street right-of-way shall revert to abutting lots whenever the
street is continued.
C.
The Planning Board may limit temporary dead-end streets
to a length not more than double the permitted length of permanent
cul-de-sac streets.
All streets shall be named, and such names shall
be subject to the approval of the Planning Board. Names shall be sufficiently
different in sound and in spelling from other street names so as not
to cause confusion. A street which is a continuation of an existing
street shall bear the same name.
[Amended 2-28-1989 by L.L. No. 2-1989; 9-16-2014 by L.L. No.
3-2014]
Streets shall be designed in accordance with
the following:
|
Standard
|
Collector
|
Minor, Marginal and Rural Access
|
Cul-de-Sac
(turnaround fifty-foot radius)
|
|---|---|---|---|
|
Minimum right-of-way width (feet)
|
60
|
50
|
50
|
|
Minimum pavement width, minor/marginal (feet)
|
40
|
30
|
30
|
|
Minimum pavement width, rural (feet)
|
40
|
24
|
30
|
|
Maximum grade (percent)
|
8%
|
10%
|
10%
|
|
Minimum grade (percent)
|
0.5%
|
0.5%
|
0.5%
|
|
Minimum radius of curves, inner street line
(feet)
|
500
|
250
|
100
|
|
Minimum tangent length between reverse curves
(feet)
|
100
|
No minimum
|
No minimum
|
|
Maximum grades within 100 feet of center-line
intersections (percent)
|
2%
|
3%
|
3%
|
|
Minimum braking sight distance (feet)
|
200
|
200
|
200
|
|
Minimum distance between center-line offsets
(feet)
|
300
|
250
|
250
|
|
Maximum length of cul-de-sac (feet)
|
—
|
—
|
400
|
|
Minimum outside radius of cul-de-sac pavement
to curb (feet)
|
—
|
—
|
40
|
|
Angle at intersection of street center lines
(degrees)
|
85 to 95
|
85 to 95
|
85 to 95
|
Streets shall be improved in accordance with
the following:
A.
Collector streets: pavement width minimum of 40 feet,
measured between the face of curbs.
B.
Minor streets: pavement width minimum of 30 feet,
measured between the face of curbs.
[Amended 9-16-2014 by L.L. No. 3-2014]
E.
Grading and center-line gradients: per plans and profiles
approved by the enforcement officer.
