All streets shall be properly integrated with the existing and proposed street system indicated in the municipal Comprehensive Plan, and shall meet the specifications set forth in Table of Street Design Specifications
included as an attachment to this chapter.
Grades of street shall conform as closely as possible to the natural topography, but shall not exceed the maximum grade nor be less than the minimum grade indicated in the Table of Street Design Specifications
included as an attachment to this chapter. All streets shall be arranged so that as many as possible of the building sites are at or above street grade.
Marginal access and local streets shall be laid out so as to
discourage use by through traffic. The rigid rectangular gridiron
street pattern shall be avoided, and the use of curvilinear streets,
culs-de-sac, or U-shaped streets shall be encouraged to effect a more
desirable street layout.
Where a development abuts or contains an existing or proposed
arterial street, the Plan Commission may recommend to the Village
Board that access to said arterial street be limited by one of the
following means:
A. By subdividing lots so they back onto the arterial street and front
onto a parallel local street (double-frontage lots), coupled with
the installation of screening in a reserve (access-restricting) strip
along the rear lot lines of such lots;
B. A series of culs-de-sac, U-shaped streets, or short loops entered
from and generally at right angles to the arterial street, with the
rear lot lines of the lots at the termini of such streets backing
onto the arterial street; or
C. A frontage road separated from the arterial street by a planting
strip, but having access thereto at suitable points.
Whenever any development abuts an existing street that is narrower
than the standards indicated in the Table of Street Design Specifications, the subdivider shall dedicate sufficient right-of-way on the side abutting the development to permit compliance with those standards. The developer shall improve said street to the standards imposed in §
300-60 et seq., and pay 1/2 the cost of said improvements.
Right-of-way width in excess of the standards set forth in the
Table of Street Design Specifications shall be required where:
A. Due to topography, additional width is necessary to provide adequate
earth slopes; or
B. Due to the location of railroad tracks, additional width is needed
to construct overpasses, underpasses, and approaches thereto.
Street jogs with center-line offsets of less than 125 feet shall
not be permitted if the same can be reasonably avoided.