2025-026 - Amending Ord. No. 1315, Subdivision regulations of the City of Paris, regarding design of improvements

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Exhibit A City of Paris Ordinances. Exhibit 9A, Subdivision Ordinance, IX Design of Improvements. D. Street Pavement. (1) All local streets shall be constructed of six (6) inches of continuously reinforced Portland cement concrete with No. 43 Grade 60 deformed bars spaced at 8) inches in each direction. (2) All collector streets shall be constructed of seven (7) inches of continuously reinforced portland cement concrete with No. 4 Grade 60 deformed bars spaced een (4 �3") inches in each direction. (4) The concrete mix will be designed to produce a minimum compressive strength of thousand (,3j 000) psi at twenty-eight (28) days and shall contain not less than six sacks of cement per cubic yard of concrete. The water cement ratio (net gallons of water per sack of ninety-four (94) pounds of cement) shall not exceed six and one fourth (6-1/4) gallons/sack unje,s oth, bv i,Jr)ec'r. The gradation requirements for the course and fine aggregates shall be as required by Item 360 of the TxDOT Standard Specifications for Construction and Maintenance of Highways, Streets, and I e e I Y E. Drainage. Storm sewers, bridges, culverts, inlets, and drainage channels or ditches of a permanent design adequate to carry off such rainfall shall be installed by the subdivider throughout the entire length of the drainage area where the surface drainage traverses the subdivision. The subdivider may construct in lieu of storm sewers suitable drainage channels which shall be of sufficient width, depth and shape to carry off the surface drainage and allow for maintenance operations in keeping such ditches open. All drainage ditches so constructed shall have their sides sloped so as to retard erosions; the flow line of said ditches shall be permanently established by small low flow concrete sections, and the banks of all curves or bends shall be permanently protected to prevent erosion. No open drainage channels shall be constructed within the areas dedicated as public streets and alleys in said subdivision; provided, however, that in cases where utilization of the land of the improved development warrants otherwise, such ditches may be located in the center portion of the street (except at street intersections where culverts or bridges of a permanent design shall be constructed) where a right-of-way not less than eighty (80) feet in width, plus width, for drainage channel, is provided.