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Updated January 2025 – Gem Lake Consolidated Land Use Ordinance No. 131 58 <br /> <br />11. Location and method of screening of outdoor trash storage areas. <br /> <br />12. Location and size of all proposed signage. <br />13. Location and height of proposed lighting facilities. <br /> <br />2. Subdivision Plat supporting data as required by Section 12 of the Subdivision Ordinance (if subdivision is <br />proposed); <br /> <br />3. Grading and Filling Plan; <br /> <br />4. Tree Preservation Plan; <br /> <br />5. Sediment and Erosion Control Plan or Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan, as applicable; and <br /> <br />6. Landscaping Plan. <br /> <br />3. Thoroughfare Network. <br /> <br />1. Orientation of Thoroughfares. The orientation of streets and pedestrian access should enhance open <br />spaces and prominent buildings and provide for the maximum number of lots with southern exposure. All <br />streets shall terminate at other streets or at public land, except as specified belo w: <br /> <br />1. Type A thoroughfares that terminate in cul-de-sacs may be permitted only when topography <br />prevents the use of loop streets. <br /> <br />2. Any thoroughfare may terminate in a stub street when the stubs act as connections to future <br />phases of the development or adjacent undeveloped areas. A stub requires a dedication of public <br />right-of-way or similar title restriction encumbering the area on the property from the closest <br />intersection to the phase line or property boundary over which the thoroughfare would run if built <br />out. <br /> <br />2. Street Layout. <br /> <br />1. No lot shall be more than 550 feet from a street intersection. A future intersection proposed as <br />part of a later phase of the same development may be used to meet this requirement. Local streets <br />shall be designed to limit and slow through traffic by narrower roadways, short lengths and other <br />geometric configurations. <br /> <br />2. Low volume streets (Types A and B) should be aligned to form three-way intersections when <br />possible. Three-way intersections create an inherent right-of-way assignment (the through street <br />receives precedence), which significantly reduces accidents without the use of traffic controls. <br /> <br />3. A low volume street that intersects a higher-order street (Types C, D and Boulevard), should be <br />aligned with another street to form a four -way intersection, which can easily be regulated by a <br />stop sign or other traffic control device. <br /> <br />4. Right angle intersections shall be used whenever possible. No street shall intersect another at an <br />angle of less than 75 degrees. <br /> <br />5. The roadway edge at street intersections shall be rounded by a tangential arc with a minimum <br />radius of 20 feet for low-volume streets and 30 feet for intersections involving higher-order <br />streets. <br /> <br />1. Where the intersection of low-volume streets will be controlled by the placement of stop <br />signs, the radius may be reduced to 15 feet. <br /> <br />2. The intersection of a low-volume street and an alley shall be rounded by a tangential arc <br />with a minimum radius of 10 feet. <br /> <br />6. Pedestrian crossing distances at intersections shall be shortened to the greatest extent possible, <br />using curb bump-outs to cover space assigned to parking in other parts of the thoroughfare (see