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The street and highway design shall conform to City of Blue Lake Standards, the City's General Plan, master plans adopted by the City, and specific plans; and shall be subject to approval by the City Engineer. Right-of-way for any such street or highway indicated on the Circulation Element of the General Plan shall be provided by the subdivider. Traffic studies shall be performed for new developments, when required, by the Planning Commission or the City Engineer.
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The subdivider shall comply with the requirements of other legally constituted bodies, such as the County or State, when a subdivision requires streets and highways within their jurisdiction as part of the subdivision plan.
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All streets shall, as far as practicable, be in alignment with existing adjacent streets by continuations of the center lines thereof or by adjustments by curves.
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Streets shall be required to intersect one another at a right angle, as near as practicable; or the centerlines shall be offset at least 120 feet for minor residential streets, and at least 150 feet for all other streets.
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Intersection Corner Rounding. Whenever an A-1 arterial or an A-2 arterial street or state highway intersects any other street or highway, the property lines at each block corner shall be rounded with a curve having a radius of not less than 30 feet. On all other street intersections the property line at each block corner shall be rounded with a curve having a radius of not less than 24 feet. In either case, the City Engineer may direct that a greater curve radius may be required if streets intersect other than at right angles.
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Curve Radius. The centerline curve radius on all streets and highways shall be designed based upon professional design standards incorporating design speed and sight distance; and shall be subject to approval by the City Engineer.
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Grades of Streets and Highways. No street or highway shall have a grade of more than 12%.
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All streets and highways shall be graded and paved to cross sections and grades approved by the City Engineer. The subdivider shall improve the extension of all subdivision streets, highways, or public ways to the intercepting paving line of any county road, city street, or state highway. All street cross sections shall include a minimum of 0.2 feet asphalt concrete on at least 0.70 feet Class 2 aggregate base. R-value tests will be prepared by subdivider and submitted to City Engineer. Structural section design will be based upon R-value results, traffic intensity determinations, and soil tests. Soil bearing tests may be required within the structural section during construction. Soil compaction tests shall be prepared by a civil engineer, other than the design engineer, at the frequency required by the City Engineer, all at the cost of the subdivider. All test results shall be submitted to the City Engineer.
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Stubbed Streets. Where necessary to give access to a future subdivision of adjoining land, streets shall extend to the boundary of the property and a cul-de-sac having a minimum radius of 50 feet or a hammerhead evenly laid out at 25 feet by 90 feet, all areas of which will be laid between property lines, shall be required and constructed. In certain cases approved by the City, the resulting dead-end streets may be approved without a cul-de-sac provided that control of access across such dead-end street shall be vested in the City.
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Half Streets. Where a street is proposed adjacent and parallel to one boundary line of the subdivision, the subdivider shall dedicate the entire right-of-way to serve the subdivided land. Where an existing half street is located adjacent and parallel to the boundary line of the proposed subdivision, the subdivider shall dedicate additional right-of-way to complete the entire right-of-way and provide such additional improvements and easements as may be necessary to meet the requirements of this chapter.
Reserved strips controlling the access to public ways or minimizing values for special improvement assessments will not be approved unless such strips are determined by the City Council, to be necessary for the protection of the public welfare or of substantial property rights, or both, and in no case unless the control and disposal of the land comprising such strips is placed definitely within the jurisdiction of the City under conditions approved by the Planning Commission.
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Streets and Highways.
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Streets and highways not shown on any street and highway plan, or the Circulation Element of the General Plan, or not affected by proceedings initiated by the City Council or approved by the City Council upon initiation by other legally constituted governmental bodies, shall not be of less width than those set forth hereunder, except where it can be shown by the subdivider, to the satisfaction of the Planning Commission that the topography of the small number of lots served and the probable future traffic development are such as to unquestionably justify a narrower width. Increased widths may be required where streets are to serve commercial property or where probable traffic conditions warrant such. Such determination shall be made by the Planning Commission with results from the applicant's traffic study, prepared and submitted by a registered civil engineer and subject to recommendations by the City Engineer.
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Approval of determination of street or highway classifications within the City shall be made by the Planning Commission and shall be processed as an amendment to the Circulation Element of the General Plan. The City Engineer will provide recommendations regarding classification.
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Rights-of-Way. Minimum right-of-way requirements and easement standards are prescribed within the City's standard plans and standard specifications.
When the front of any lots proposed for commercial usage front on any major or secondary street or highway, the subdivider shall be required to dedicate and improve a service road to provide ingress or egress to and from such lots or in lieu thereof, if approved by the Planning Commission, the subdivider may dedicate for public use and improvement an area approved by the Planning Commission, and adjacent to such lots, for off-street parking purposes. When the front of any lots proposed for residential usage front on any freeway, state highway or parkway, the subdivider shall dedicate and improve a service road at the front of such lots, unless such is already existent as a part of such freeway or parkway. In addition to any requirements for a service road, the Planning Commission may require adequate off-street parking areas for all lots proposed for commercial usage.
When any lots are proposed for commercial or industrial usage, alleys at least 30 feet in width shall be required at the rear thereof with adequate ingress and egress for truck traffic as part of the overall commercial development design. Where two alleys intersect, the corner shall be cut either on a 20 feet radius to which the lot boundaries are tangent or on a straight line connecting points on both lot lines 15 feet from the corner of the lot at the intersection of the alleys. The requirement may be waived by the Planning Commission.
When the rear of any lots border any major or secondary street, highway, or parkway, the subdivider may be required to execute and deliver to the City an instrument, deemed sufficient by the City Attorney, prohibiting the right of ingress and egress to the rear of such lot across the side lines of such streets or highway. When the rear of any lots border any freeway, state highway or parkway, the subdivider may be required to dedicate and improve a planting strip adjacent to such parkway or freeway.
The subdivider shall grant easements where necessary, not less than 15 feet in width for public utility, sanitary sewer, water and drainage purposes on each side of rear lot lines, along side lot lines, and in planting strips wherever necessary. This requirement may be modified by the Planning Commission.
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The side lines of all lots, so far as possible, shall be at right angles to the street which the lot faces, or radial or approximately radial if the street is curved.
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Setback lines shall be shown on the improvement plans, shall be identified, and shall be indicated by "dotted" lines. Setback lines will include, but not be limited to, setbacks per zoning and other land use ordinances, flooding elevation lines, etc. When setbacks become a matter of title, they shall be shown on the final map or parcel map.
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Divided Lots. No lot shall be divided by a City boundary line.
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All lots less than 100 feet in width must have a depth-to-width ratio not in excess of three to one. Lots with diverging side lot lines shall have a minimum of 40 feet width at the building setback line.
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Lot Drainage. All lots shall be adequately drained and sloped in such a manner that surface water is conducted through drainage channels or gutters approved by the City Engineer. Drainage to adjacent parcels is not permitted, unless contained within positive drainage improvements and within legal easement designed for drainage transport. Drainage design, on the improvement plans shall be in conformance with current State Water Resources Control Board Non-Point Source Runoff Program requirements, and the applicant's engineer shall make a statement that such improvements are in compliance.
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Double frontage lots may be permitted only where necessitated by topographic or other conditions approved by the Planning Commission with vehicle access from one street only, and with a one-foot nonvehicular easement to prevent vehicle ingress or egress, on the opposite side.
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Block Length. Blocks shall not exceed 500 feet in length except where necessitated by topographical or other physical conditions.
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Block Depth. The depth of blocks shall be sufficient to allow for two tiers of lots with rear easements, as required; but blocks shall not exceed 300 feet in depth, except where necessitated by topographical or other physical conditions, or where permitted by provisions of Title 17, Zoning.
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Walkways. The subdivider may be required to dedicate and improve walkways of not less than 10 feet across long blocks and/or to provide access to schools, parks, or other public facilities.
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Where a subdivision adjoins a railroad right-of-way, and the Zoning Ordinance (Title 17 of this code) designates the property for industrial use, the streets nearest to and running in the same general direction as the railroad shall be as nearly parallel thereto as practicable and at a sufficient distance therefrom to provide suitable depth for industrial sites between the street and the railroad.
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Railroad crossings, setbacks to railroad tracks, and other design elements shall be in conformance with California PVC standards unless waived by the Planning Commission.
In the event that the subdivision is bordered or traversed by any watercourses, channels, streams, or creeks, the subdivider shall dedicate rights-of-way or easements for storm drainage conforming substantially with the lines of such watercourses, channels, streams, or creeks, and shall dedicate such additional rights-of-way as shall be required by the City Engineer for structures or channel changes for disposal of surface and stormwater, or for City access along the watercourse necessary to permit the proper maintenance thereof when such maintenance is the responsibility of a public body.
Areas which are subject to the ponding of surface water shall not be subdivided unless approved by the Planning Commission. The City Engineer shall make an investigation and report to the Planning Commission on the adequacy of measures taken or proposed to be taken by the subdivider. The Planning Commission shall establish conditions of approval of the tentative map.
Where, in accordance with provisions of Title 17, Zoning, a use permit has been granted authorizing a planned unit development on the land, or a portion of the land proposed to be subdivided, the plan of the subdivision shall conform with the plan of the planned unit development as approved by the Planning Commission and City Council. The Planning Commission may allow for good cause shown some of the principles and standards set forth in Chapter 16.16 to be utilized in a planned unit development subdivision. Exceptions to the subdivision regulations, which are necessary or desirable to execute the planned unit development as approved by the Planning Commission, shall be applied for in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and consistent with the provisions of the Subdivision Map Act.
In all respects, the subdivision will be considered in relation to the Blue Lake General Plan, the Circulation Element of the General Plan, and specific plans adopted for the purpose of carrying out the General Plan.
A copy of the deed restrictions applicable to the subdivision shall be filed with the Planning Commission at the time of filing the final map or parcel map. If the deed restrictions are changed prior to the sale of any property the amended restrictions shall be filed with the Planning Commission.
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All lots shall be suitable for the purpose for which they are intended to be sold, leased or used.
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Residential lots abutting a limited access way shall normally have access on a frontage road, minor street or collector street.
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Where the subdivision is of such a size that the Commission deems it proper, it shall require that the subdivider designate suitable areas and facilities, and/or pay in-lieu fees for public facilities, parks, playgrounds, schools, drainage improvements and other public building sites and infrastructures that may be required. The in-lieu fees shall be established by the City Council. The fees shall be paid to the City prior to the beginning of construction and prior to City approval of the subdivision map or final map.
Elementary school sites and park sites should be located so that pedestrians need not cross major arterials in order to walk from home to school. Public school site selection shall be subject to Section 66413.7, Government Codes (Development of Public School Sites) of the Subdivision Map Act. Shopping centers should be located on arterials to prevent unnecessary commercial traffic from driving through residential neighborhoods, as determined by the Planning Commission after review of a subdivider-prepared traffic study.
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Existing trees shall be preserved within any public way whenever such trees are suitably located, healthy and of desirable variety, when required by the Planning Commission. A registered forester may be required, by the Planning Commission, to prepare and submit a report to the City to determine the suitability of proposed tree removal for new developments. The subdivider may be required, by the Planning Commission, to provide reports prepared by landscape architects regarding the design plan for proposed landscaping in new developments.
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Fire hydrants, gated connections and appurtenances to provide adequate fire protection, shall be furnished in place by the subdivider. Said fire protection facilities shall be furnished in accordance with the standards of the Blue Lake Fire Protection Districts, the Insurance Service Office, and as approved by the City Engineer. All residential or commercial structures shall be located within 600 feet of a fire hydrant.
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Permanent type traffic barricades shall be furnished at the dead-end of streets adjacent to undeveloped land.
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Failure of the subdivider to provide sufficient design information or to make provisions for required streets, highways, schools, drainage, water, sewerage, and all other planned and required public facilities, as required in this and other City ordinances, shall be reason for rejection of the tentative map by the City Engineer as an incomplete submission.
All dedications shall be in accordance with the requirements of Article 3 of Chapter 4 of Division 2 of Title 7 of the Government Code (commencing with Section 66475). The dedication of land, or the payment of fees in-lieu thereof, or a combination of both, for park or recreational purposes shall be required as a condition to the approval of a tentative map or parcel map per Section 66477 of the Government Code. Such requirement will be established in accordance with the policies and regulations of the General Plan and zoning ordinances of the City of Blue Lake.
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Requirements. The determination of dedication requirements or the payment of fees shall be as determined by the Planning Commission. The determination of fees shall be made by the City Council upon recommendation by the Planning Commission.
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Park Standards. The City of Blue Lake finds that the public interest, health, safety and welfare of the community requires three acres of property for each 1,000 residents be devoted to community parks and recreational purposes. This section is enacted pursuant to Government Code Section 66477.
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Fee Assessments. New subdivisions of land shall be assessed a fee for recreational facilities for each parcel created by the subdivision. The City Council will accept dedication of land and may consider permanently dedicated private open space in determining the fee. The fee assessment for parkland and recreation purposes shall be established by the fees schedule established by the City Council of the City of Blue Lake.
D. 
Disposition of Fees. Disposition of all parkland and recreation fees shall be in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 4, of Division 2, of Title 7 of the Government Code (commencing with Sections 66475 and 66483, respectively), as amended.
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Exemptions. All subdivisions of less than 50 parcels shall pay fees for parkland and shall not provide land dedication. Commercial and industrial subdivisions are exempt from the park and recreation fees assessment. Any building permit requested for a residential structure on such exempted commercial and industrial subdivision will require payment in full to the City of the exempted fee at the value then in force at the time of the building permit request.
This section is enacted and shall be considered in accordance with Section 66483 of the Government Code of the State of California. Fees will be required for storm drainage and sanitary sewer off-site improvements in accordance with the policies and regulations in the ordinances of the City of Blue Lake.
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Requirements. As a condition of approval for a final map or parcel map, the subdivider shall pay in-lieu fees for storm drainage and may be required to pay in-lieu fees as well as provide infrastructure improvements to the sanitary sewer system.
B. 
Fee Assessments. New subdivisions of land shall be assessed a fee for the following improvements: storm drainage, sanitary sewer off-site improvements, bridges, major thoroughfares, and groundwater recharge facilities for each parcel created by the subdivision. The fees will be established by the City Council of the City of Blue Lake and will be kept current in accordance with state and local laws.
C. 
Disposition of Fees. All fees collected by the City will be handled in conformance with Section 66483 of the Government Code.
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Exemptions. No subdivisions are exempt from these requirements.