ARTICLE 8

IMPROVEMENTS

Required Improvements

Exceptions for Existing Improvements

 

 

Required Improvements: The subdivider shall install, or provide for the installation of, the following improvements:

    1. Streets:
      1. Streets in subdivisions comprised of lots smaller than 3 acres shall be hard-surfaced with curb and gutter in conformance with the Engineer's standards and specifications.
      2. Streets in subdivisions comprised of lots larger than 3 acres, but less than 6-2/3 acres in size shall be hard surfaced in conformance with the Engineer's standards and specifications. Curbs and gutters shall not be required.
      3. Streets in subdivisions comprised of lots 6-2/3 acres and larger in size shall have a compacted base and be surfaced with rock and gravel in conformance with the Engineer's standards and specifications.

It shall be the policy of the City of El Dorado to pay the cost of street intersections and the cost of extra width (over 31 feet back to back of curb) and depth (over 9 inches of asphalt or 7 inches of concrete) on street construction.

    1. Water: Where a public water supply is proposed to serve the subdivisions, said water lines shall be installed in proper easements or within the limits of the street and alley right-of-way. The system shall be of equal or better quality and size than the minimum standards of the City and shall meet all K.D.H.E. standards. Where private water supplies are proposed, adequate provision shall be made for easements to allow installation of a public system should the property ever be annexed or required to develop a public supply. No private water systems shall be permitted within the City limits. Private water systems shall meet all requirements of the Butler County Sanitation Code.

It shall be the policy of the City of El Dorado that all public water lines necessary to support new subdivisions shall be paid by the new development within the City limits. Any oversizing of water lines or other infrastructure above and beyond that necessary to serve the new subdivision, the difference shall be at the cost of the city-at-large. 

The City will allow waterlines to be extended outside the City, but will not participate in the cost of those lines.

    1. Sewer: A public sanitary sewer will be used in all subdivisions wherever possible. The sewer shall be designed and constructed to provide service to each lot within the subdivision. The system of lateral sewers shall collect the sewage within the subdivision and discharge it into the City sewer system. All subdivisions which connect to the City sewer systems shall be required to be annexed into the City, excepting that the City will permit the connection of Butler County Sanitary Sewer Systems to its sewer system by specific contract with said district. The developer shall be responsible for all costs associated with the construction of sanitary sewer laterals. The City-At-Large shall be responsible for the cost of constructing sanitary sewer mains in accordance with the provisions of K.S.A. 14-516 and adopted City policy. Upon determination of the City that the City sewer system is not practicably available to the development, the subdivider may submit plans for consideration for disposal of sewage into a central, public treatment facility. The sewer system shall be of equal or better quality and size than the minimum standards of the City as determined by the City Engineer. The sewer system shall meet all K.D.H.E. and Butler County standards.

In subdivisions where individual private wastewater systems are proposed, adequate provision shall be made for easements to allow the installation of a public system should the property ever be annexed or required to develop a public system. All private wastewater systems shall comply with the Butler County Sanitation Code.

    1. Walks: Sidewalks shall not be required within subdivisions. If provided, however, sidewalks shall be designed and constructed to standards specified by the City Engineer. 

In order to facilitate pedestrian access from the roads to schools, parks, playgrounds, or other nearby roads, the Planning Commission may require, perpetual unobstructed easements at least ten (10) feet in width with a sidewalk of five (5) feet in width. To minimize the impact on adjacent property, the walkway shall be adequately landscaped, screened or otherwise buffered as required by the Planning Commission. Pedestrian easements shall be indicated on the plat.

Crosswalks shall be required to provide safe and convenient access across streets along existing and future sidewalk network. Curb cuts meeting the minimum standards of the Americans with Disabilities Act shall be provided where sidewalks meet street curbs or connection to another sidewalk across a street is required. Crosswalks across collector or arterial streets shall be clearly marked with approved paint or other more permanent means such as use of unique paving patterns as approved by the City Engineer.

Installation of sidewalks may be delayed for one side of a block between two intersecting streets until seventy-five (75) percent of the lots on that side of the block have been developed, or within three (3) years of the approval of the final plat, whichever comes first.

    1. Storm Drainage: In development outside the corporate limits of the City, and the subdivider shall install culverts, storm sewers, rip-rap slopes, stabilized ditches. All improvements shall comply with the minimum standards of the governing body and such plans shall be examined by the City Engineer and approved prior to construction.

In development inside the corporate limits of the City, the City shall pay for the installation of all storm sewers required for the development of subdivisions within the City limits. The following items shall be considered as part of the storm sewer systems:

      1. Curb Inlets
      2. Manholes
      3. Pipes

The following items shall not be considered as part of the storm sewer system and shall be installed at the developer's expense:

      1. Detention Basins or Ponds.
      2. Paved Drainage Ditches.
      3. Other items determined by the Planning Commission and City Commission to be an unusual or excessive requirement for development of the property.
    1. Street Signs: The City shall install street signs at all intersections within a subdivision.
    2. Street Trees: Street trees should be planted in accordance with proper landscape design standards.
    3. Permanent Monuments: Permanent monuments shall be placed at all lot and block corners, angle points, point of curve in streets, and at intermediate points as required prior to the final acceptance of the plat by the City. Said permanent monuments shall be 1/2-inch minimum iron bars or pipe, eighteen (18) inches long, shall be set with top of monument flush with existing ground line, and shall include an identification cap on the bar.
    4. Street Lights: The City shall provide for the installation of street lights at street intersections and other locations as it determines necessary. The developer shall be responsible for all costs for providing street lighting equipment other than that determined as necessary by the City.

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Exceptions for Existing Improvements:

    1. Where the proposed subdivision is a resubdivision or concerns an area presently having any or all required improvements as previously set out, and where such improvements meet the requirements of this Article and are in good condition as determined by the governing body upon its consideration of the opinion of the City Engineer, no further provision need be made by the subdivider to duplicate such improvements. However, where such existing improvements do not meet said requirements as determined by the governing body upon its consideration of the opinion of the City Engineer, the subdivider shall provide for the repair, correction, or replacement of such improvements so that all final improvements will then meet said requirements as determined by the governing body upon its consideration of the opinion of the City Engineer.

Said improvements will be made under the same conditions as set out in these regulations except that the City will not participate in the cost of reconstructing or relocating any improvement on which City funds previously have been expended.

Where the proposed subdivision is a resubdivision or concerns an area presently abutting or continuing any existing public street of less than the minimum required right-of-way width or roadway width, land shall be dedicated so as to provide a minimum street right-of-way width established by these regulations and/or by the policy of the governing body, and the subdivider of such proposed subdivision shall provide an additional roadway pavement meeting the minimum standards set by these regulations and the governing body. The governing body shall determine what adjustment to make where the aforesaid widening merges with existing streets which are of smaller width at the boundary of such proposed subdivision. The governing body may reduce the minimum roadway system in the proposed subdivision if the extension of such roadway is already improved at each end of such roadway in the subdivision and the roadway in the proposed subdivision is two (2) blocks or less in length.

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