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area, which is a minimum of ten acres. The preliminary plat shall show a feasible plan for future resubdivision by which lots may be resubdivided to meet the size and dimension standards of lots in areas served by public sanitary sewer system. Any preliminary plat not showing a future resubdivision plan shall not be resubdivided. (F) Butt lots. Butt lots shall be platted at least five feet wider than the average interior lots in the block. (G) Drainage. Lots abutting upon a watercourse, drainageway, channel or stream shall have an additional depth or width, as required, to assure house sites are not subject to flooding. § 153.20 STREET. (A) No plat shall be approved unless all streets shown thereon shall be of sufficient width and shall be so located as to accommodate the probable volume of traffic thereon, afford adequate light and air, facilitate fire protection, provide access of fire -fighting equipment to buildings, and provide a coordinate system of streets conforming to the city street plan. (B) In addition, the street design must meet the following requirements: (1) In the case of subdivisions for commercial, industrial and public purposes, no street giving access upon a major street shall be located closer than 500 feet, along the same side of a major street, to any other driveway, public or private street in the same or another subdivision; (2) Local streets shall be so planned as to discourage through traffic; (3) Cul-de-sacs, when used, shall be held to as short a distance as possible between the origin or main street and the end of the cul-de-sac. Each cul-de-sac shall have a terminus of nearly circular shape and be a maximum allowable length of 800 feet; (4) The use of half -width streets shall be prohibited, except where essential to the reasonable development of the subdivision in conformity with the other requirements of these regulations and the overall plan of the neighborhood in which the plat is situated. Wherever a half -street is adjacent to a tract to be subdivided, the other half of the street shall be platted within the tract; (5) Reserve strips controlling access to streets are prohibited; (6) The minimum distance between centerlines of parallel or approximately parallel streets intersecting a cross -street from opposite directions shall be 150 feet; (7) Intersections of more than two streets at one point shall be avoided; (8) Dead-end streets shall be prohibited unless provided with a turnaround or cul-de-sac arrangement; 2741Page