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.
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3.
THIS ordinance shall be effective and in full force
and effect upon its adoption. ✓`
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