No new street, boulevard, highway or public
way shall be laid out or offered for acceptance as a public thoroughfare
in the Town which shall not conform to the specifications as provided
in this article. No person owning any tract or parcel of land within
the Town, or having any interest therein, shall lay out or construct
any streets, boulevards, highways or public ways over, upon or though
that land which is designed or intended as public thoroughfares, except
in the manner and in accordance with the rules and regulations prescribed
in this article.
[Amended 4-12-1982]
Any person desiring to lay out and construct
any proposed streets, boulevards, highways or public ways shall file
with the Town Engineer at least four copies of a preliminary plan
or survey, at a scale of one inch equals 100 feet, showing the location
and width of all such proposed streets, boulevards, highways or public
ways to be constructed thereon, together with their relationship to
any existing highways abutting or adjoining such premises. Such plan
shall also show any proposed building lots intended to be laid out
upon the tract or parcel of land, which lots must conform to all zoning
regulations of the Town as to lot area and street frontage. There
shall also be filed with the preliminary plan four copies of a profile
map, which shall be upon tracing cloth, of each proposed street, boulevard,
highway or public way and which shall be at the scale of one inch
equals 40 feet horizontal and four feet vertical, referred to the
Town datum plans showing the existing center-line elevations with
a light solid black line, the east or north street-line elevations
in a dotted line and the west or south street-line elevations in a
dashed line, all at points 50 feet apart. The Town Engineer shall
thereupon examine the plan and profiles as to its engineering features
and may make such alterations or recommendations as he shall deem
necessary to make the street properly fit into the Town Plan or to
provide proper and necessary drainage. He shall then submit the plan
and profiles to the Town Planning and Zoning Commission, which after
proper examination and investigation, if it approves the layout and
the proposed line and grades, shall forward its report in writing
to the Town Council, and the Town shall be required to give final
approval to the lines and grades. No street shall be proposed which
shall be less than 60 feet in width, except upon the recommendation
of the Planning and Zoning Commission, and it shall give its reason
therefor in writing. Dead-end streets shall not be permitted except
where circumstances make them absolutely necessary, in which case
a turnaround having an outside radius of not less than 35 feet shall
be provided. The Town Council shall act upon the Planning and Zoning
Commission's recommendations at their first regular meeting following
delivery of such recommendations to the Town Council.
[Amended 3-12-2007 by Ord. No. 07-03]
Upon final approval of the proposed lines and
grades by the Planning and Zoning Commission, the owner of the land
through which the streets are to be laid out or constructed shall
immediately file with the Mayor a good and sufficient surety bond,
procured from a surety company of good standing and authorized to
do business in the state, in such an amount or amounts as the Mayor
shall deem sufficient to save the Town harmless, conditioned upon
the faithful performance of the construction in accordance with the
approved lines and grades and other Town specifications at their sole
expense and without cost to the Town.
[Amended 3-12-2007 by Ord. No. 07-03]
Upon the completion of the work to the satisfaction
and approval by the Town Engineer and Director of Public Works, the
Mayor shall certify to the Town Council that the various regulations
have been complied with and that the streets, boulevards, highways
or public ways are in proper condition for formal acceptance by the
Town Council as public thoroughfares. If the Town Council votes to
accept such streets, it shall act by formal resolution, which resolution
shall set forth the width and approximate length of the streets accepted,
together with a designation of the name by which the streets shall
thereafter be known.
Any person who shall willfully violate any of
the provisions of this article shall be fined not more than $100.