Blocks shall not be longer than one thousand two hundred feet between intersecting street lines, except on arterial streets, where longer blocks may be required by the city council.
(Ord. 861 § 5.01, 1981)
Improved walkways not less than ten feet in width and not over three hundred feet in length may be required through blocks more than nine hundred feet in length and through other blocks where necessary to provide access to schools, parks and scenic easements.
(Ord. 861 § 5.02, 1981)
Easements not less than ten feet wide shall be required within or across lots where necessary for underground utilities, cables, wires, street trees, drainage, conduit and water mains or other utilities. A reduction of the width may be allowed when a lesser width is justified in the opinion of the city engineer and the serving utility.
(Ord. 861 § 5.03, 1981)
When the rear of any lots borders upon a freeway, expressway, state highway or arterial, the subdivider may be required to dedicate and improve a planting strip adjacent to such freeway, expressway, state high-way or arterial. The cost of all required improvements shall be borne by the subdivider.
(Ord. 861 § 5.04, 1981)
Watercourses shall be shown as easements when required by the city engineer, and storm drains shall be placed in easements when public right-of-way is not available or adequate. All lots shall be so graded as to drain to an improved street or, when this is not feasible, all watercourses shall be placed entirely in underground conduits in accordance with the standards adopted pursuant to this title. In the event that storm drains are located at the rear lot line, there shall be provided a concrete inlet structure with iron grate at the lower corner of each lot. Where sumps are approved to handle drainage as an interim solution, defeasible easements shall be provided for necessary channels and sump areas.
(Ord. 861 § 5.05, 1981)
Durable metal monuments consisting of iron pipe with plug and tack approved by the city engineer, set at least two feet into the ground, and conforming to the standards adopted by the city, and shown on the final subdivision or parcel map, shall be placed at the following locations:
A.
Along boundary lines at intervals not to exceed five hundred feet, or at such lesser distances as may be made necessary by topography or culture, to assure accuracy in the reestablishment of any point or line without unreasonable difficulty;
B.
At the beginning and ending of property line, curves or the points of intersection of tangents thereof, or other intermediate points required by the city engineer;
C.
At all lot corners; a cross shall be cut in the top of curb on the prolongation of the side lot lines.
(Ord. 861 § 5.06, 1981)
Concrete monuments, depressed below street grade, with cast iron ring and cover of a type approved by the city engineer, shall be set at intersections of street centerlines. Said monuments shall also be placed at the beginning and end of each centerline curve.
(Ord. 861 § 5.07, 1981)
Permanent elevation benchmarks, of a type approved by the city engineer and referring to the city datum, shall be set at each street intersection in the curb return or other location approved by the city engineer.
(Ord. 861 § 5.08, 1981)
Any monument or benchmark, required by this title, which is disturbed or destroyed before acceptance on all improvements, shall be replaced by the subdivider at his expense.
(Ord. 861 § 5.09, 1981)
Complete field notes, in a form satisfactory to the city engineer, showing references, ties, locations, elevations and other necessary data relating to monuments and benchmarks set in accordance with the requirements of this title, shall be submitted to the city engineer to be retained by the city, as a permanent record.
(Ord. 861 § 5.10, 1981)
A.
All lots shall abut on a dedicated and improved street unless otherwise provided for in an approved and adopted Specific Plan or an approved Planned Unit Development Permit.
B.
Lots with frontage on more than one street will not be permitted, unless approved by the city council, or, in minor subdivisions, the planning commission, which may as a condition to such approval, require the developer to release access rights on one street.
(Ord. 861 § 5.11, 1981; Ord. 993 § 4, 1985)
Existing streets shall be extended as required by the city council.
(Ord. 861 § 5.12, 1981)
Street stubs shall be extended to adjacent unsubdivided property where, in the opinion of the city council, they are necessary. A satisfactory, temporary cul-de-sac and a standard barrier shall be installed at the termini of street stubs in order to prevent unauthorized access thereto and therefrom.
(Ord. 861 § 5.13, 1981)
Streets shall intersect at as near right angles as is practicable. Radius of curvature, where the property lines intersect, shall be a minimum of twenty feet, except where streets intersect arterials where the minimum radius shall be thirty feet.
(Ord. 861 § 5.14, 1981)
T or three-legged intersections are preferable to four-legged (grid iron) intersections on local streets.
(Ord. 861 § 5.15, 1981)
Intersections shall not be located closer than three hundred fifty feet to any other intersections measured from centerline to centerline, unless approved by the city engineer.
(Ord. 861 § 5.16, 1981)
Access rights, where required to control access over certain lot lines, or reserve strips over the ends of street stubs, shall be deeded to the city.
(Ord. 861 § 5.17, 1981)
Frontage roads, access roads or acceleration lanes shall be required in industrial, commercial and in multiple family residential areas where it is necessary to control access to arterial streets.
(Ord. 861 § 5.18, 1981)
Where lanes intersect streets, a minimum twenty-foot radius of property line curvature shall be required.
(Ord. 861 § 5.19, 1981)
Names for proposed new streets shall be approved by the city council upon the recommendation of the chief of police and fire chief and shall be shown on the tentative map.
(Ord. 861 § 5.21, 1981)
Streets, rights-of-way and easements in any standard subdivision or minor subdivision shall be offered for dedication by appropriate means. The city may, at its option, accept or reject any such offer or reserve the right to require future dedication.
(Ord. 861 § 5.22, 1981)
Street design shall conform to the standards embodied in the circulation element of the general plan of the city.
A.
Curve Radius. Minimum centerline radius on streets shall be:
Expressway/arterial streets | 1500 feet |
Collector streets | 800 feet |
Minor streets | 200 feet |
Cul-de-sac streets | 100 feet |
B.
Grades. Maximum permitted, ten percent.* Minimum permitted, one percent.
* Where topography makes ten percent impractical, subject to receiving the city engineer’s recommendation, the city council may allow up to fourteen percent grade, where satisfactory evidence is given, showing that a lesser grade is not possible.
(Ord. 861 § 5.23, 1981)
Variation of the standards required pursuant to this chapter and Chapter 19.12 may be permitted only in areas where a use permit is in effect for a planned unit development. The variations permitted shall be only those shown on that site plan which was approved as a part of the planned unit development.
(Ord. 861 § 5.24, 1981)
The city council, upon the recommendation of the city engineer and the director of community development, shall regulate the design and location of airspaces and buildings in condominium, stock cooperative and community-apartment projects in order to promote the public safety, health, comfort, convenience and general welfare, and to effectuate the general plan, and the standards and provisions of the subdivision and zoning ordinances.
(Ord. 861 § 5.25, 1981)