[Adopted STM 3-1-1970]
[Amended TC 6-16-2014]
The following shall be considered a minimum standard. The Town reserves the right to add to or elaborate on these requirements at the discretion of its Town Council.
[Amended TC 6-16-2014]
Before initiation of work, the applicant or developer shall submit a suitable plan of the proposed development showing all proposed roads or streets, established boundaries and, if dead-end streets, their proposed turnaround or rotary at the dead end of the street, their proposed finished profile grades and details of the proposed drainage system, including, all rights necessary for complete installation of such drainage system, also including proposed areas for four-foot sidewalks and utility service installations. These plans shall be of a permanent type, on a size of sheet and drawn to scale approved by the Town Council, and if such road or street is accepted, all plans or maps and rights-of-way then become the property of the Town of Cromwell.
Proposed roads or streets shall conform with the following general requirements:
A. 
Right-of-way. A minimum width of 50 linear feet will be required.
B. 
Boundaries. Merestones, of a type approved by the Town Council, shall be set at the point of curvature (PC) and at the point of tangency (PT) of all curves and angle points in street lines.
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C. 
All roads to be presented to the Town for acceptance must connect with existing public highways now in use.
D. 
Width of pavement. A minimum width of 28 linear feet shall be constructed between the limits of the right-of-way. Banks are to be sloped 4:1.
E. 
Construction of new road.
(1) 
Type of pavement. All new roads to be constructed by any development group or contractor will be required, after the street or road has been made ready for surface treatment, to have a binder course of two inches of bituminous concrete binder and 1 1/2 inches of surface course material, Grade II, rolled with a five-ton roller of a minimum weight.
(2) 
Subgrade. All unsuitable material encountered in cuts shall be removed to a depth of one foot below subgrade. The area so excavated shall be backfilled with gravel of a quality satisfactory to the Town Council.
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(3) 
Embankments. Embankments shall be constructed of earth or a mixture of earth and rock deposited in successive layers for the full width of the embankment. In no case shall stumps, trees, sod, wood or material which will not compact be placed in embankments. Before placing the base material the subgrade shall be shaped so that it is parallel to and the specified depth below the approved finished surface.
(4) 
Base materials used to make ready for surface treatment.
(a) 
Gravel: coarse processed aggregate broken traprock.
(b) 
This gravel shall be a minimum of 12 inches in thickness after compaction, constructed on the prepared subgrade with the approved lines and grades.
(5) 
Drainage. A complete drainage system shall be installed to provide for the natural drainage throughout the area of development and for drainage conditions created by the construction of the road or street. All pipes installed shall be of a size that will be sufficient to carry the volume of water for which it is intended. All drainage pipes and structures (catch basins, manholes and end walls) shall be of a type consistent with standards established by the Town and shown in the proposed plans.
(6) 
Curbing. Curbing shall be required to be five inches or six inches in height with an eight-inch or nine-inch base.
(7) 
Trees and shrubs must be planted far enough back from the curbline to allow for the construction of sidewalks.
F. 
Streetlights. Electric lights of 2,500 lumen power shall be placed on every other pole along a street or road with four-thousand-lumen-power lights at all intersections.
G. 
Street signs. All streets must be named and street markers of baked enamel with letters four inches tall placed at all intersections.