A.
Proposed land uses shall conform to Chapter 600, Zoning, the Town Comprehensive Plan for the Town of Dickinson and the provisions of this chapter.
B.
Subdivision designs shall indicate consideration for suitable protection
of different types of land uses and the segregation of vehicular and
pedestrian traffic incompatible with particular uses.
C.
It is desirable that the sites be provided for public and semipublic
land use such as schools, firehouses, churches and related uses.
D.
Subdivision design shall preserve, insofar as is possible the natural
features, terrain and drainage of the land to be developed.
A.
The arrangement, character, extent, width, grade and location of
all streets shall be considered in their relation to other existing
and planned streets, to topographical conditions, to public convenience
and safety and in their appropriate relation to the proposed uses
of land to be served and/or abutted by such streets.
B.
Streets in a subdivision shall:
(1)
Provide for the continuation or appropriate projection of existing
streets in surrounding areas; or
(2)
Conform to a plan for the neighborhood approved or adopted by the
Planning Board to meet a particular situation where topographical
or other conditions make continuance of or conformance with existing
streets impracticable.
C.
Minor streets shall be so laid out that their use by through traffic
will be discouraged.
D.
Where a subdivision borders on or contains a railroad 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, as for park purposes
in appropriate districts. Such distances shall also be determined
with due regard for the requirement of approach grades and future
grade separations.
E.
Reserve strips controlling access to streets, water plants or sewage
treatment plants, or to other land dedicated or to be dedicated to
public use, shall be prohibited except where their control is definitely
placed in the Town under conditions approved by the Planning Board.
F.
Street jobs with center-line offsets of less than 125 feet shall
be avoided.
G.
Property lines at street intersections shall be rounded with a radius
of 10 feet, or with a greater radius where the Planning Board may
deem it necessary. The Planning Board may permit comparable cutoffs
or chord in place of rounded corners.
H.
Curb radii at intersections shall be not less than 20 feet.
I.
Half-streets shall be prohibited, except where essential to the reasonable
development of the subdivision in conformity with the other requirements
of these regulations, and, where the Planning Board finds it will
be practicable to require the dedication of the other half when the
adjoining property is submitted, the other half of the street shall
be platted within such tract.
J.
Dead-end streets, designed to be so permanently, shall not be longer
than 500 feet in general, and not longer than 600 feet in any case,
and shall be provided at the closed end with a turnaround having an
outside roadway diameter of at least 100 feet and a street property
line diameter of at least 120 feet.
K.
Block lengths shall not exceed 1,200 feet nor be less than 400 feet.
Block widths shall not be less than 250 feet.
L.
All minor streets, defined and so designated by the Planning Board,
shall have a minimum right-of-way width of 50 feet. The drive strip
of said minor street shall have a minimum pavement width of 34 feet.
M.
All collector streets, defined and so designated by the Planning
Board, shall have a minimum right-of-way width of 60 feet. The drive
strip shall have minimum pavement width of 40 feet.
N.
All streets designated by the Planning Board as arterial streets
shall have a minimum right-of-way width and a minimum drive-strip
width as specified by the Planning Board, after a thorough study of
the potential future use, traffic volume and area development has
been made.
O.
Special treatment along arterial streets. When a subdivision abuts
or contains an existing or proposed arterial street, the Planning
Board may require marginal access streets, reverse frontage with screen
planting contained in a nonaccess reservation along the rear property
line, deep lots with rear service alleys or such other treatment as
may be necessary for adequate protection of residential properties
and to afford separation of through and local traffic.
Q.
Pedestrian circulation. Pedestrian crosswalks and rights-of-way not
less than 10 feet wide shall be required where deemed essential to
provide circulation or access to schools, playgrounds and other community
facilities.
Culverts shall be at least 18 inches deep.
A.
Type of name. All street names shown on a preliminary plat or subdivision
plat shall be approved by the Planning Board. In general, streets
shall have names and not numbers or letters.
B.
Names to be substantially different. Proposed street names shall
be substantially different so as not to be confused in sound or spelling
with present names, except that streets that join or are in alignment
with streets of an abutting or neighboring property shall bear the
same name. Generally, no street should change direction by more than
90° without a change in street name.
