[Adopted as Rev. Ords. 1964, §§ 18-30 to 18-37 (Ch. 20, Art. V, of the 2010 Code)]
[Amended 8-15-2000]
No street or way shall be laid out, altered, relocated or discontinued except upon petition to the Municipal Council of at least 10 legal voters therefor or the City Engineer or Planning Board or by vote of the Municipal Council and after a plan of the same has been submitted to the Planning Board, and in no case unless seven days previous thereto the Municipal Council shall cause written notice of its intention to lay out, alter or discontinue the same to be given as herein provided.
The notices required by § 383-37 shall specify the time and place for meeting and hearing all parties interested therein and shall be left at the usual place of abode of the several owners of the land over which such street or way is proposed to be laid out, altered or discontinued, unless such notices are delivered to such owners in person or to their tenants or authorized agents, and if such owners have no such abode in the City and no tenant or authorized agent therein known to the Municipal Council, or if, being a resident of the City, he/she is not known as such to the Municipal Council, such notice shall be posted up in some public place in the City seven days at least before the laying out, altering or discontinuance of such street or way.
[Amended 8-15-2000]
At the time and place appointed and notified as aforesaid, the Municipal Council shall meet and hear all parties interested and, if requested, shall view the premises. If the Municipal Council shall adjudge that the public convenience and necessity require such street or way to be laid out, altered or discontinued, it shall, as soon as may be practical, proceed to lay out, alter or discontinue the same; shall fix the boundaries and measurements of the street or way so laid out or altered; shall determine the grade thereof with a plan and profile of the same, and the names of the various owners of land interested designated thereon; and shall determine the damages, if any, sustained by any persons on their property by the laying out, altering or discontinuing of such street or way, the amount of compensation which such person shall receive, and the time allowed the owners of land through which the street or way passes to take off trees, fences and other property which may obstruct the building of such street or way.
[Amended 8-15-2000]
The Municipal Council shall, after laying out, altering or discontinuing any street or way, make full report of its doing in the premises and shall cause the same, with all plans thereof, to be forthwith filed in the office of the City Clerk and a copy of the plan to the City Engineer.
The Municipal Council shall cause permanent landmarks, bounds, or monuments to be established on any street or way laid out or altered, as provided by statute.
[Amended 8-15-2000[1]]
All streets, ways and squares laid out shall be named as approved by the Municipal Council. The City Clerk shall keep a book, to be furnished by the City, in which the names of all streets and ways now established and laid out, or hereafter to be laid out, within the City shall be entered, with a brief description thereof and the date of layout or acceptance of the same, if known, with the boundaries and widths thereof, and alteration at any time made therein and a statement of landmarks or other established monuments appertaining thereto, so far as the same can be ascertained.
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Editor's Note: Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General Provisions, Art. II).
[Amended 9-21-1965; 8-28-1984]
No public street shall hereafter be laid out by the Municipal Council, and no existing street shall be accepted or laid out as a public way, unless the same is 50 feet wide, if such width can be secured without a material and disproportionate injury to adjoining estates, nor unless the construction of the same shall have been periodically supervised and inspected by the Supervisor of the Street Division, the Supervisor of the Water Division and the Supervisor of the Sewer Division, with periodic reports of their findings thereon being made to the Mayor, the Municipal Council and the Planning Board, nor unless the Planning Board shall approve the same after completion of such construction.
[Amended 8-15-2000]
No person shall, within the limits of the City, prepare or open for public travel any street or way, unless a plan showing its location, widths and grades has been submitted to and approved by the Planning Board and filed in the office of the City Clerk, such street or way to be laid out and constructed according to such plan and to be reasonably safe for travel at all seasons of the year. The Municipal Council may, whenever the public safety demands, direct and cause the entrance into any public street or way of any street or way laid out in violation of these requirements to be closed.