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File #: 1999-4827    Version: Name: Amend Code revise Appendix C, Subdivision Regulations, require subsurface drainage in New Developments and require 60 foot right-of-way for collector and local streets
Type: Ordinance Status: Removed from Consideration
File created: 8/9/1999 In control: Parish Council
On agenda: 9/7/1999 Final action: 9/7/1999
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: An ordinance of the Parish of St. Charles, providing that the Code of Ordinances, Parish of St. Charles, be amended by revising Appendix C, the St. Charles Parish Subdivision Regulations of 1981, to require subsurface drainage in new developments; to require a sixty (60) foot right-of-way for collector and local streets.
Sponsors: Terry 6 Authement
Indexes: Highway Dept., P and Z (Dept. of), Subdivision Regulations
Code sections: Appendix C. II. - Subdivision procedure, Appendix C. III. - Geometric standards, Appendix C. IV. - Design standards
Related files: 2012-0296, 2003-0150, 2000-0501, 2004-0324, 2014-0197, 2000-0489, 2015-0144, 2001-0069, 2001-0179, 2004-0354, 2009-0219, 2011-0071, 2013-0196, 2015-0344, 2019-0117, 2019-0359
1999-4827
INTRODUCED BY: TERRY AUTHEMENT, COUNCILMAN, DISTRICT IV
ORDINANCE NO.
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An ordinance of the Parish of St. Charles, providing that the Code of Ordinances, Parish of St. Charles, be amended by revising Appendix C, the St. Charles Parish Subdivision Regulations of 1981, to require subsurface drainage in new developments; to require a sixty (60) foot right-of-way for collector and local streets.
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THE ST. CHARLES PARISH COUNCIL HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION I. That Appendix C, the St. Charles Parish Subdivision Regulations of 1981, of the Code of Ordinances of the Parish of St. Charles be amended as follows:
1. Revise II.D.2.c. to read:
c. Storm Drainage System Plan. A layout map shall be prepared showing the proposed and existing subsurface storm drainage system within the subdivision, all outfall drainage systems, and individual drainage areas.
2. Revise II.D.2.h.(3) to read:
(3) Grade of storm sewer and drainage system.
3. Revise III.A.2.a. to read:
a. Arterial. Requirement for curb and gutter subsurface drainage shall be eighty (80) feet for two-lane roadways and one hundred (100) feet for four-lane roadways.
4. Revise III.A.2.b. to read:
b. Collector and Local. Requirement for curb and gutter subsurface drainage shall be sixty (60) feet.
5. Revise III.A.4. to read:
4. Utilities. Space within the street right-of-way shall be designated for the construction of sub-surface drainage, sanitary sewers and public facilities and shall be in accordance with the typical sections.
6. Revise IV.A.1. to read:
1. Pavement Width. Pavement width shall be measured from back to back of curbs. Pavement widths shall conform to the following minimum requirements:
7. Revise IV.A.1.b. to read:
b. Collector and local streets shall be twenty-seven (27) feet in width.
8. Revise IV.A.1.c. to read:
c. Boulevard streets shall be twenty-six (26) feet in width for each set of lanes with a median of not less than sixteen (16) feet in w...

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