03/25/2014 Ordinances 9480 ORDINANCE NO. 9480
An ordinance to amend Chapter 33 Section 12 of the Grand Island City Code; to
amend Chapter 33 Section 12 pertaining to Standards for Streets and Alleys; to repeal Chapter 33
Section 12 as now existing, and any ordinance or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith; and to
provide for publication and the effective date of this ordinance.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
GRAND ISLAND, NEBRASKA:
SECTION 1. Sections 33-12 of the Grand Island City Code are hereby amended
to read as follows:
§33-12. Streets and Alleys
(1) The arrangement of streets shall conform as nearly as possible to the street plan of the General
Development Plan with provisions for the extension of arterial and collector streets. Streets in
the subdivision,normally shall connect with streets already dedicated in adjoining or adjacent subdivisions, and
provisions may be required for future connections to adjoining unsubdivided tracts.
(2) Local streets should be so planned as to discourage through traffic. Cul-de-sacs should normally not
be longer than five hundred feet and shall terminate with right-of-way turn-around having a diameter of not less than
one hundred feet, and an outside curb diameter of not less than eighty feet for residential areas. Cul-de-sacs within
industrial or commercial areas shall have a right-of-way diameter of not less than 120 feet and an outside curb
diameter of not less than 100 feet.
(3) Collector and Arterial streets should be planned with minimal local street and driveway accesses.
Residential subdivisions should be designed with street patterns that provide driveway access from local streets.
(4) Whenever a proposed subdivision is adjacent to or contains a portion of an existing or proposed
federal or state highway, provision in such subdivision shall be made for one of the following methods of
development:
(a) If the highway is either a non-access or controlled access thoroughfare, one of the following two
methods of development shall be required:
(i)A frontage street adjacent and parallel to such thoroughfare shall be provided;or
(ii)Lots shall back or side to such thoroughfare and have access to another street. Lots in
commercial or industrial zoning districts shall have a landscaped area averaging thirty feet in
width, or other approved landscaping, adjacent to such thoroughfare, and outside storage of
unassembled or unfinished materials or products and inoperable equipment or motor vehicles
shall be suitably screened by a sight-obscuring fence, foliage, or other screening material.
Lots in residential zoning districts shall have a sight-obscuring fence, foliage, or other
screening material adjacent to such thoroughfare.The sight-obscuring fence shall not be metal
strips or slats in a chain link fence.
(b) If the highway is not a non-access or controlled access thoroughfare, one of the following
methods of development shall be required:
(i) Either method required for a non-access or controlled access thoroughfare may be
applied;or
(ii) Lots may have frontage directly on such thoroughfare, provided, that the minimum
setback for any new building in any zoning district shall be thirty feet,and shall be landscaped
except for approved driveways.
Approved as to Form
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ORDINANCE NO. 9480 (Cont.)
(5) Half streets shall be prohibited except where essential to the reasonable development of the
subdivision in conformity with the other requirements of these regulations, or where it is found to be practicable to
require the dedication of the other half when adjoining property is subdivided.
(6) Under normal conditions streets shall be laid out as to intersect as nearly as possible at right angles,
except where topography or other conditions justify variations. More than four approaches to any intersection shall
be prohibited. Street jogs at intersections with centerline offsets of less than 75 feet should be avoided.
(7) Alleys may be provided in commercial and industrial districts. Alleys shall be avoided in residential
districts except to extend existing alleys to a street.
(8) The right-of-way widths, improvements, and grades for streets and alleys included in any subdivision
shall not be less than the minimum right-of-way and outside curb dimensions or less than the minimum grade for
each classification as shown on the street cross sections as recommended by the Grand Island Public Works
Department and approved by the Grand Island City Council attached as addendum C-Approved Street Cross
Sections.
Medians
Location:Medians may be located within streets to be dedicated to the public.
Lane width: A minimum unobstructed lane width of twenty(20.0) feet(improved 21'back of curb to back of curb)
is required between the median curb and the street curb.
Landscaping: Medians within the public right-of-way may be landscaped, maintenance of landscaped medians shall
be the responsibility of a property owners association created at or before filing the final plat. The city will maintain
concrete medians or bricked medians within the public right-of-way.
All streets shall be designed and graded to the full right-of-way widths stated.
(9) Drives, streets, or roadways within condominium, townhouse, or planned unit developments shall
have a minimum right-of-way, improvement, and grade as determined by agreement between the subdivider,public
works director,director of Planning,and approved by the city council.
(10) The horizontal alignment on all streets except in unusual cases shall be as follows:
Radii of Horizontal Curves(Center Line)
Arterial Streets 700'minimum
Collector Streets 300'minimum
Local Streets 100'minimum
SECTION 2. Addendum "C" is hereby adopted as part of Chapter 33 of the Grand Island City
Code, and shall read as follows
ADDENDUM "C"
APPROVED STREET CROSS SECTIONS
(As Attached)
SECTION 3. Sections 33-12 as now existing, and any ordinances or parts of
ordinances in conflict herewith be, and hereby are, repealed.
SECTION 4. Sections 33-12 and Addendum "C" are hereby adopted as part of
Chapter 33 of the Grand Island City Code.
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ORDINANCE NO. 9480 (Cont.)
SECTION 5. That this ordinance shall be in force and take effect from and after
its passage and publication, within fifteen days in one issue of the Grand Island Independent as
provided by law.
Enacted: March 25, 2014.
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