2019-025 - Amending Ordinance No. 1315 Subdivision Regulations to Incorporate the Master Thoroughfare Plan

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other parts of the City shall be avoided. "17. Alleys. Alleys or loading and unloading courts shall be provided in blocks to be used for any purpose other than residential. The minimum right-of-way width for such alleys shall be thirty (30) feet and shall be paved in their entirety. Should alleys be platted in residential areas they shall have a minimum right-of-way width of twenty (20) feet and paved to a minimum of twelve (12) feet. Alleys shall be provided where existing alleys of adjacent subdivisions would be closed or shut off so as to deny said existing alleys of separate ingress and egress. "No lot shall be platted in such manner as to force or render desirable the building thereon of any improvements which face, front or have the main entrance on an alley. 7. EASEMENTS "Except where alleys of the width set forth herein are provided, easements not less than fifteen (15) feet in width, seven and one-half (71/2) feet in width on each side of the lot lines, shall be dedicated on all rear lot lines and on side lot lines as necessary for municipal and utility use for poles, wires, conduits, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, water lines, open drains, gas lines, heat lines, or other public utilities. Such easements may be required across parts of lots other than as described above upon recommendation of the City Engineer. "G. LOT ARRANGEMENTS "In general, the side lines of lots shall be approximately at right angles to the street line. If possible, the placing of adjacent lots at right angles to each other shall be avoided. "1. Lot Size. The minimum lot size of any lot shall conform to existing zoning regulations. "2. Access to Lots,. Each lot shall be provided with adequate access to an existing public street by frontage along such street or through connection of a new street or a permanent easement to an existing street. "H. SURVEY "1. Accuracy. All survey work around the boundary area as well as within the subdivision shall have an error of closure of one in seven thousand five hundred (1/7500) or less. "2." Monuments. Permanent type monuments shall be placed at each corner and angle point of the boundary survey of the subdivision as well as the corners of all street intersections within the subdivision; also on all property line points of curve and points of tangent, under the supervision and direction and as located by the Engineer who prepared the plat. These monuments shall be placed approximately flush with the top of the finished curb and shall be of at least Class B (2500 psi) concrete and shall be eight (8) inches in diameter and twenty-four (24) inches long. There shall be placed in the center of this concrete monument to denote the corner a one quarter inch diameter brass pin two (2) inches long and set one quarter inch above the concrete.