§ 8A. Streets and easements.

8A-100 As used in this section, the following definitions will apply:

Major street: A principal traffic artery, more or less continuous across the city, which is intended to connect remote parts of the city or areas adjacent thereto and to act as a principal connecting street with state and federal highways and shall include each street designated as a thoroughfare street on any master plan which may now be in effect or which may be adopted at a later date.

Minor street: A street which is intended primarily to serve traffic within a neighborhood or limited residential district, and which is not necessarily continuous through several residential districts.

Secondary street: A street collecting traffic from other streets and serving as the most direct route to a major street.

8A-200. Under the constitution and laws of the state of Texas and the provisions of this ordinance, the zoning power of the city is hereby exercised for the purpose of promoting the health, safety, morals and general welfare of the general public under a comprehensive plan designed to lessen congestion in the streets, to secure safety from fire, panic, and other dangers, to promote the health and general welfare of the general public, to provide adequate light and air, to prevent the over-crowding of land, to avoid undue concentration of population and to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage, schools, parks and other public improvements, and the city council finds that transportation, water, sewerage, drainage and public utility facilities are not adequate to lessen congestion in the streets, to secure safety from fire and panic, to prevent unsanitary conditions, to provide adequate light and air, to prevent the over-crowding of land, to avoid undue concentration of population, to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, drainage, sewerage, and other public requirements in the area zoned herein should any portion of said area be developed for residential or professional or commercial or industrial or agricultural or amusement or airport purposes and uses or a combination of any of said purposes and uses and the City of Grapevine shall regulate the use of all of the property rezoned herein in order to lessen congestion in the streets, to secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers, to promote the health and general welfare of the general public, to provide adequate light and air, to prevent the over-crowding of land, to avoid undue concentration of population, and to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, drainage, sewerage, and other public requirements and in so regulating the use of said property does hereby require that prior to the issuance of a building permit and certificate of occupancy that the primary means of access have a minimum right-of-way-width along the entire frontage of the property as follows, and further, if property should be corner lot, said property shall have access to both streets having a minimum right-of-way width prior to issuance of a building permit and certificate of occupancy as follows (corner lots shall be considered to front on each street for purposes of determining minimum right-of-way):

	Minimum Right of Way—Centerline to Front Property Line
RESIDENTIAL
Minor street	25—30 feet
Secondary street	30—35 feet
Major street	35—60 feet
MULTI-FAMILY
Minor street	30 feet
Secondary street	35—40 feet
Major street	35—40 feet
COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
Minor street	35 feet
Secondary street	40 feet
Major street	35—50 feet

 

And that before the issuance of a building permit and certificate of occupancy, the owner shall cause to exist right-of-way for drainage, sewerage, water and utility as the city manager shall determine to be reasonable and necessary to facilitate adequate provision for water, sewerage, drainage, and utilities.

8A-300. Nothing in the above provision shall be interpreted as requiring the dedication of property.

8A-400. In order to secure safety from fire, panic and other dangers, and to facilitate the adequate provision of transportation, water, sewerage, drainage, public utilities and prevent unsanitary conditions, prior to the issuance of a building permit, the city manager shall determine whether or not the owner of land zoned herein must file a plat showing existing and proposed water courses, drainage, drainage ditches, widths and dimensions of proposed street or streets, alleys, easements, drainage facilities, lot lines, building setback lines, topographical information with contours at an interval of one foot referred to city data with reference to bench marks where available, which contours shall fall within one-third of a contour interval of their true location although contour intervals of five feet may be allowed if the terrain is steep enough to warrant these intervals as well as other information reasonably required by the city manager to determine the safety and effect of the proposed development and construction on the citizens of the City of Grapevine. No building permit shall be issued until the city manager has either approved said plat or determined a plat is not required.

(Ord. No. 73-24, § 1, 6-19-73)