1. Discourage through traffic in residential subdivisions;

2. Require the minimum number of streets and intersections necessary to provide convenient and safe access to property;

3. Be arranged so as to maximize the number of building sites at or above the grades of the streets;

4. Avoid a combination of steep grades and curves;

5. Be arranged in proper relation to topography so as to result in usable lots, safe streets, reasonable gradients and minimum damage to terrain and existing vegetation;

6. Use land in the most efficient way;

7. Be properly related to all existing and proposed special traffic generators such as industrial, business and shopping districts, schools and churches; to population densities; and to the pattern of existing and proposed land uses;

8. Complement drainage patterns;

9. Preserve natural features such as watercourses, geology, etc.;

10. Allow for the efficient provision and extension of public utilities and services;

11. Implement the transportation element of the comprehensive plan;

12. Permit the trafficway to be centered within the right-of-way;

13. Provide safe sight distances and intersections;

14. Facilitate pedestrian traffic through the dedication of pedestrian trails or rights-of-way to provide access to public and other facilities and through the middle of long blocks;

15. Continue arterial, collector and local streets from adjacent existing subdivisions wherever possible; and

16. Minimize the potential for wind damage in areas where extreme wind conditions exist.

1. Multiple cul-de-sac or dead-end streets extending from a single entrance are not permitted;

2. Cul-de-sac and dead-end streets shall not be more than six hundred (600) feet in length;

3. The number of intersections, especially between streets of different classification, shall be kept to a minimum;

4. Streets shall intersect at ninety (90) degrees or close thereto and in no case less than seventy-five (75) degrees. The distance between intersection centerlines shall not be less than one hundred fifty (150) feet;

5. No intersection shall be located near the brow of a hill or where an embankment blocks vision;

6. Proposed new intersections along one (1) side of an existing street shall, wherever practicable, coincide with any existing intersections on the opposite side of the street; otherwise the points of intersection shall be at least one hundred fifty (150) feet apart. [Ord. 01-05 § 7.]