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ZONING ORDINANCE - Stark County, North Dakota

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other treatment as may be necessary for adequate protection of residential properties<br />

and for separation of through and local traffic.<br />

4) Where a subdivision borders on or contains a railroad right-of-way or limited access<br />

highway right-of-way, the Planning and Zoning Commission may require a street<br />

approximately parallel to and on each side of the right-of-way, at a distance suitable<br />

for the appropriate use of the intervening land. Such distances shall be determined<br />

with due regard for the requirements of approach grades and future grade<br />

separations.<br />

5) Reserve strips in private ownership controlling access to streets are prohibited.<br />

6) Street with centerline offsets of less than one hundred fifty (150) feet shall be<br />

prohibited.<br />

7) A tangent at least one hundred (100) feet long shall be introduced between reverse<br />

curves on major streets.<br />

8) When connecting street lines deflect from each other at any one point by more than<br />

ten (10) degrees, they shall be connected by a curve with a radius adequate to insure<br />

a sight distance of not less than four hundred (400) feet for local and collector<br />

streets, and of such greater radii as the Planning and Zoning Commission shall<br />

determine for special cases.<br />

9) Streets shall be laid out so as to intersect as nearly as possible at right angles, and no<br />

street shall intersect any other street at less than eighty (80) degrees.<br />

10) Curb radii on all block corners shall be twenty (20) feet.<br />

11) Street rights-of-way shall conform to the <strong>County</strong> Road Policies and shall not be less<br />

than the following table:<br />

Rural<br />

Street Type<br />

Minimum<br />

Right-of-Way<br />

Width<br />

(lot line to lot<br />

line)<br />

Section<br />

Minimum<br />

Roadway<br />

Top<br />

Width<br />

Maximum<br />

Gradient<br />

Minimum<br />

Gradient<br />

Arterial Streets 150 feet 36 feet 4% 0.7%<br />

Collector and Industrial Use<br />

Streets<br />

80 feet 32 feet 6% 0.7%<br />

Local Streets 66 feet 28 feet 10% 0.5%<br />

a) Cul-de-sac, if approved, one hundred forty (140) feet in diameter for a<br />

turnaround.<br />

b) Alleys, residential district, twenty (20) feet.<br />

c) Sidewalks, five (5) feet.<br />

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