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HomeMy WebLinkAbout82 08-10-1957 ORDINANCE N0. 82 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 79, SECTION 5, SUB - SECTIONS 5 and 7; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EULESS, TEXAS.: 1. THAT, Ordinance No. 79, Section 5, Sub-section 5 (street grades) be amended to read as follows: Street Grades: Major Streets may have a maximum grade of five percent unless the natural topography is such as to require steeper grades, in which case a seven and one --half percent grade may be used for a maximum continuous distance of 200 feet. Minor streets may have a maximum grade of seven and one -half percent. Local Residential Streets may have a maximum grade of ten percent. All streets must have a minimum grade of at least 3/10 of one percent. Center --line grade changes with an algebraic difference of more than two .percent shall be connected with vertical curves of sufficient length to iDrovide a minimum of 600 feet sight distance on Major Streets; 400 feet sight distance on Minor Streets and Local Residential Streets. No vertical curve shall be less than 200 feet in length. Wherever a cross slope is necessary or d-7)sirable from one curb to the opposite curb, such cross slopes shall not be less than three inches in thirty feet nor more than twelve inches in thirty feet. 2. THAT, Section 5, Sub - section 7, (street widths), be amended to read as follows: Street Widths: Major Streets shall have a minimum dedicated width of 60 feet with a minimum pavement width of 40 feet. Local Residential Streets shall have a minimum dedicated width of 50 feet with a minimum pavement width of 27 feet from back of curb to back of curb, except that in the case of curvilinear streets such width shall be increased to a width of 33 feet from back of curb to back of curb, if required by City Engineer and /or Director of Public Works in order to provide easy and safe travel on such streets. Where the curve is not too sharp it shall be the policy not to require the additional width in such curvilinear streets. y I b 3. THIS ordinance shall be effective and in full force and effect upon its adoption. ✓` PROVEP': A Y 4 R AT l CITY SECRETARY - 2