These design standards are a guide to development
so that the Town of Monroe will in the future be a coordinated, well-planned
community of good quality, with provision for desirable services and
facilities.
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.
Natural areas, parks and playgrounds are vital to
a balanced community. Each subdivision or other use of land hereinafter
mentioned will be required by the Planning Board, in its discretion,
to provide one of the following:
Dedication to the Town of Monroe of a site or sites
of a character, extent and location suitable for the development of
a park, playground or other recreation purpose which site or sites
shall not exceed more than 10% of the gross area of the subdivision
or of such other use.
The deposit to the Park and Playground Fund of the Town of Monroe to be used in suitable places for such facilities, as a cash equivalent of Subsection E(1) above, of a sum determined by the Town Board.[2]
The street and highway layout shall conform to the
Master Plan for streets and highways and shall provide appropriately
located street taps or stub streets to adjacent areas.
Minor streets shall be laid out so that their use
for through traffic will be discouraged. Particular attention should
be given to eliminating possible bypasses around traffic signals and
major intersections.
Special attention shall be given to blocks in industrial
and business districts to provide for access to the lots and areas
for parking and truck delivery.
Offset intersections of minor and major streets shall
be spaced a minimum of 150 feet apart, measured from the points of
intersection of the center lines.
Planting strips. All planting strips within the street
rights-of-way shall be finish-graded, properly prepared and seeded
or sodded with lawn grass in conformance with good nursery and landscape
practice.
Monuments. Monuments shall be of reinforced concrete
or stone and shall be four inches square, with a length of at least
24 inches, and shall be embedded the full depth.
All boulders, organic material, soft clay, spongy
soil and other objectionable material shall be removed and replaced
by material approved by the Town Engineer.
The subgrade shall be properly stabilized, shaped,
rolled and uniformly compacted with a ten-ton roller to conform with
the lines, grades and typical cross sections of this specification
and the approved final plat profile drawings. The process of shaping,
rolling and filling shall be repeated until no depressions develop.
When existing materials in the road are to be used
for road-base material, that material shall be removed from the surface
of the subgrade so that the subgrade may be properly prepared before
the base is constructed.
Cuts and fills shall have a maximum slope of one or
two from the edge of the right-of-way, except when specifically waived
by the Planning Board and the Town Engineer for the purpose of saving
trees or some particular terrain feature at the given place.
Land subject to periodic or occasional flooding shall not be platted for residential occupancy nor for any other use which may endanger life or property or aggravate the floor hazard, and further, such land within a plat shall be set aside for park purposes in addition to that area which is required in § A65-20E, subject to the approval of the Planning Board.
Manholes shall be provided in drain lines not more
than 350 feet apart, and wherever branches are connected or sizes
are changed, and wherever there is a change in alignment or grade.
Drain lines shall be placed between the center line
of the road and the gutter line and shall, as far as practical, parallel
the center line of the road.
Surface drainage in gutters shall be limited to the
equivalent of that flowing from 1.5 impervious acres; however, where
the tributary impervious area exceeds the runoff from one impervious
acre, a double inlet catch basin shall be used.
Drainage structures which are located on state or
county highway rights-of-way shall be approved by the State or County
Highway Engineers office, and a letter from said office indicating
such approval shall be directed to the Town of Monroe Planning Board.
A conscious effort shall be made to preserve all worthwhile
trees and shrubs which exist on a site. Such features may well be
suggested for park or playground areas. On individual lots or parcels
care shall be taken to preserve selected trees to enhance the landscape
treatment of the development.
Where the property to be subdivided is next to, or
includes, a railroad right-of-way, suitable provisions shall be made
for such things as road crossings, screening and freight access, in
recognition of the relationship between the railroad and the subdivision.