Street and lot arrangement and other subdivision features shall
meet the following minimum requirements:
A.
The plat shall conform to such plan or plans for the land being subdivided
and its general locality as may have been prepared and adopted by
the Planning Board.
B.
All streets or roads which are so designed or situated as to become
a part of the major thoroughfare system of the municipality, as may
have been indicated by the Planning Board, shall be coterminous with
adjoining links in said system and shall be at the same or greater
widths, and minor streets shall be so arranged as to discourage fast
driving and use by through traffic.
C.
All new traffic streets or roads shown on the Master Plan of the
municipality, if such exists, shall have right-of-way widths of not
less than 50 feet, and greater widths may be required when warranted
by anticipated traffic volumes. All other streets shall have right-of-way
widths of not less than 50 feet, except that in the case of culs-de-sac
and other streets of similar nature, the Board may approve rights-of-way
of lesser widths. When a subdivision fronts on an existing street
or road of insufficient width, the Planning Board may require the
subdivider to cede a sufficient strip along such frontage to enable
the necessary widening of his side of the existing street or road;
and whenever practicable, frontage upon major arterial streets and
highways designed for fast and heavy traffic shall be developed with
a minimum of direct access upon the main-traveled way by introduction
of marginal service roads or by reversing the frontage and providing
a planted buffer strip between the highway and the rear of lots or
by other such means. Land fronting on other main streets and highways
shall be developed generally with the long way of blocks running parallel
to the main thoroughfare.
D.
Ordinarily, blocks, the distance between street intersections, shall not be less than 500 feet nor more than 1,200 feet in length and not less than 200 feet nor more than 350 feet in width and shall otherwise conform to lot requirements as contained in Chapter 280, Zoning.
E.
Street grades shall not exceed 4% on main traffic streets and 10%
on all other streets. All streets shall have sufficient gradient for
proper surface drainage, and in no case shall the grade be less than
1/2 of 1%.
F.
Lots shall have an area, width and depth sufficient to satisfy the minimum requirements of Chapter 280, Zoning, and the Planning Board may urge upon the subdivider greater lot sizes and dimensions when deemed to the mutual advantage of the subdivider and the community. All lots shall be adaptable to the intended purpose without danger to health or peril from flood, erosion or other menace.
G.
For all rectangular lots and for all other lots when practicable,
sidelines shall be at right angles to the streets upon which the lots
face or radial to curved-street lines.
H.
Alleys not less than 20 feet in width or other access facilities
shall be provided at the rear of all lots designed for business uses,
and off-street parking spaces may be required in convenient relation
to lots or areas intended to be developed or sold for such uses.
I.
Other street design standards.
(1)
Street intersections shall be as nearly at right angles as is possible.
(2)
Street jogs with center-line offsets of less than 125 feet shall
not be permissible.
(3)
A tangent of not less than 100 feet shall be introduced between reverse
curves on all main and secondary thoroughfares.
(4)
All changes in grade shall be connected by vertical curves of sufficient
radius to provide smooth transition.
(5)
Cul-de-sac streets of a permanent nature shall not exceed 600 feet
in length and shall be provided with a turnaround at the end having
a radius of not less than 35 feet.
J.
Utility and drainage easements and retention of natural features.
(1)
In large-scale developments, easements along rear or side lot lines
for the installation of utilities may be suggested or required. Such
easements, if provided, shall be not less than 15 feet wide, and their
locations shall be approved by the municipal or private utility agency
or agencies concerned.
(2)
Where a subdivision is traversed by a watercourse or stream to be
kept permanently open, there shall be provided a stormwater or drainage
flow easement at least 10 feet in width sufficient for such purposes.
(3)
Natural features, such as trees, streams and views, shall be preserved
to every practicable extent in all subdivision design and development.
K.
In appropriate cases, the Planning Board may require reservation
of such needed public lands as those for parks, playgrounds and school
grounds for a period of one year following the date of final plat
approval, pending action by the appropriate public agency toward accepting
or acquiring such land or lands for public use. The Board may urge
upon the subdivider the free dedication of such land or lands to public
purposes as of economic advantage to the subdivider. A subdivider
or his agent shall not sell land or lots in relation to a plat showing
land or lands for public use unless it is clearly indicated on the
plat whether such land is permanently dedicated to the indicated public
purpose or is temporarily reserved for such purpose conditional upon
its acquisition by the appropriate public agency.
L.
No plat showing reserve strips controlling the access to public ways
shall be approved unless the control and disposal of such reserve
strips are given to the municipality under conditions meeting the
approval of the Planning Board, and no half-streets at property boundaries
shall be acceptable.
Permanent monuments shall be installed in the manner and in
the locations prescribed by and in additional locations as may be
indicated by the Municipal Engineer or other qualified municipal authority.
A.
Before proceeding to sell lots in any subdivision approved subsequent
to this enactment, the subdivider or his agent shall improve or shall
agree to improve the street or streets upon which such lots front
by grading and surfacing the roadways, placing gutters or equivalent
provisions for surface drainage and installing drains and conduits
where required. Further, in the public interest, the Planning Board
may similarly require the installation of sidewalks, water mains,
storm sewers, sanitary sewers and the planting of trees. All such
installations shall be in locations and in accordance with specifications
approved by the Village of Monticello.
B.
Proposed street names shall not conflict with existing street names
and are subject to approval of the Planning Board.
C.
No final plat shall be finally approved by the Planning Board until
the completion of all such required improvements has been certified
to the Board by the Municipal Engineer or other qualified municipal
authority, unless the subdivision owner or owners shall have filed
with the Board of Trustees a performance bond sufficient in amount
to cover the cost of all such improvements as estimated by the Planning
Board or by such other municipal agency or department as may be indicated
by the Board and assuring the installation of such improvements by
or before an agreed date. Such performance bond shall be issued by
a bonding or surety company and approved by the Municipal Attorney
as to form, sufficiency and execution. Such performance bond shall
run for a period to be fixed by the Planning Board but in no case
for a term of more than two years. However, with the consent of the
owner and the surety, the Board of Trustees may by resolution extend
the term of such performance bond for an additional period not to
exceed three years. The amount of the performance bond may be reduced
by the Board of Trustees by resolution when portions of the required
improvements have been installed.
D.
If the required improvements have not been installed in accordance
with the performance bond, the obligor and surety shall be liable
thereon to the municipality for the reasonable cost of the improvements
not installed, and upon receipt of the proceeds thereof, the municipality
shall install such improvements.
E.
Certification to the Planning Board and to the Board of Trustees
that funds sufficient to cover the cost of all required improvements
have been placed in escrow for that purpose shall serve in lieu of
a performance bond.
