8D.3.3 Topography and Arrangement
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The official Bear River City code is at https://www.bearrivercityutah.gov/city-ordinances/.
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(a) Roads shall be related appropriately to the topography. All streets shall be arranged so as to obtain building sites at, or above, the grades of the streets. Grades of streets shall conform as closely as possible to the original topography with all cut and fill sections adequately stabilized and re-vegetated. A combination of steep grades and curves as well as large cut and fill sections shall be avoided. All construction shall comply with the Bear River City Public Works Construction Standards and shall be approved by the City Engineer and Appropriate City Official.
(b) All streets shall be properly integrated with the existing and proposed system of thoroughfares and dedicated rights-of-way as established in the Streets Master Plan or Land Use Maps or Zoning Maps.
(c) All thoroughfares shall be properly related to specific traffic generators such as industries, business districts, schools, churches, and shopping centers; to population densities; and to the pattern of existing, proposed, and future land uses.
(d) Streets shall be laid out to conform as much as possible to the natural topography, to permit efficient drainage and utility systems, and to provide convenient and safe access to property.
(e) The rigid rectangular gridiron street pattern shall be adhered to.
Proposed streets shall be extended to the boundary lines of the tract to be
subdivided, unless prevented by topography or other physical conditions, or
unless in the opinion of the Planning Commission and City Council such an
extension is not necessary or desirable for the coordination of the layout of the
subdivision with the existing layout or the most advantageous future
development of adjacent tracts.
(g) In business and industrial developments, the streets and other access ways shall be planned in connection with the grouping of buildings, location of transportation facilities, and the provision of alleys, truck loading and maneuvering areas, and walks and parking areas so as to minimize conflict of movement between the various types of traffic, including pedestrian.
(h) Subdivisions shall be designed to provide adequate emergency access to and from the development. The Planning Commission may require more than one point of ingress and egress to better facilitate emergency access and escape. The Fire Authority must approve the street design on major subdivisions.