Ordinance No. 131 Consolidated Land Use Ordinance - Updated January 2025

Home

Updated January 2025 – Gem Lake Consolidated Land Use Ordinance No. 131 51 13. Location and height of proposed lighting facilities. 2. Subdivision Plat supporting data as required by Section 12 of the Subdivision Ordinance (if subdivision is proposed); 3. Grading and Filling Plan; 4. Tree Preservation Plan; 5. Sediment and Erosion Control Plan or Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan, as applicable; and 6. Landscaping Plan. 3. Thoroughfare Network. 1. Orientation of Thoroughfares. The orientation of streets and pedestrian access should enhance open spaces and prominent buildings and provide for the maximum number of lots with southern exposure. All streets shall terminate at other streets or at public land, except as specified belo w: 1. Type A thoroughfares that terminate in cul-de-sacs may be permitted only when topography prevents the use of loop streets. 2. Any thoroughfare may terminate in a stub street when the stubs act as connections to future phases of the development or adjacent undeveloped areas. A stub requires a dedication of public right-of-way or similar title restriction encumbering the area on the property from the closest intersection to the phase line or property boundary over which the thoroughfare would run if built out. 2. Street Layout. 1. No lot shall be more than 550 feet from a street intersection. A future intersection proposed as part of a later phase of the same development may be used to meet this requirement. Local streets shall be designed to limit and slow through traffic by narrower roadways, short lengths and other geometric configurations. 2. Low volume streets (Types A and B) should be aligned to form three-way intersections when possible. Three-way intersections create an inherent right-of-way assignment (the through street receives precedence), which significantly reduces accidents without the use of traffic controls. 3. A low volume street that intersects a higher-order street (Types C, D and Boulevard), should be aligned with another street to form a four -way intersection, which can easily be regulated by a stop sign or other traffic control device. 4. Right angle intersections shall be used whenever possible. No street shall intersect another at an angle of less than 75 degrees. 5. The roadway edge at street intersections shall be rounded by a tangential arc with a minimum radius of 20 feet for low-volume streets and 30 feet for intersections involving higher-order streets. 1. Where the intersection of low-volume streets will be controlled by the placement of stop signs, the radius may be reduced to 15 feet. 2. The intersection of a low-volume street and an alley shall be rounded by a tangential arc with a minimum radius of 10 feet. 6. Pedestrian crossing distances at intersections shall be shortened to the greatest extent possible, using curb bump-outs to cover space assigned to parking in other parts of the thoroughfare (see Figure 5, Boulevard, for example), or similar methods to reduce the aver age time required for a pedestrian to cross the travel lanes of a thoroughfare.