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- Street connectivity provides access to adjacent properties and reduces out-of-direction travel. New or expanding development must include the following:
- A. Through streets as required by the City Administrator connecting existing dedicated streets, or at such locations as designated by the City Administrator, must be provided for any development or redevelopment.
- B. Partial-width streets as required by the City Administrator where full-width streets could reasonably be provided in the future with the development or redevelopment of abutting property.
- C. New residential development or development in existing or future mixed-use areas that will require construction of new street(s) must:
- 1. Respond to and expand on the adopted street plans, applicable to the site or area, or in the absence of such plan, as directed by the City Administrator;
- 2. Provide for street connections no further apart than 530 feet, except where prevented by barriers such as topography, railroads, freeways, pre-existing development, or natural features where regulations do not allow construction of or prescribe different standards for streets;
- 3. Provide bicycle and/or pedestrian connections when full street connections are not possible, no further apart than 330 feet except where prevented by barriers as noted above;
- 4. Limit the use of cul-de-sac or closed street systems; and
- 5. Include street cross section(s), as directed by the City Administrator.
- D. Street and pedestrian/bicycle spacing standards may be modified in areas of exceptional habitat quality to the following standards:
- 1. Where streets must cross over protected water features, provide crossings at an average spacing of 800 to 1,200 feet, unless exceptional habitat quality or length of crossing prevents a full street connection.
- 2. Pedestrian and bicycle connections that cross protected water features should have an average spacing of no more than 530 feet, unless exceptional habitat quality or length of crossing prevents a connection.