Providing for the Control of Land Subdivision and the Approval od Plat and Replat of Land

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4 2. Minor streets shall be laid out so that their use by through traffic will be discouraged. 3. Where a subdivision borders on or contains an existing or proposed street as shown in the Major Thoroughfares Plan, the Planning Commission may require a marginal access street or reverse front- age with screen planting contained in a nonaccess reservation, which shall have a minimum width of ten (10) feet along the rear property line; or, such other treatment as may be adequate for pro- tection of residential properties and to afford separation of through and local traffic. 4. Where a subdivision borders on or contains a rail- road right -of -way or limited access highway right - of -way, the Planning Commission may require a street approximately parallel to and on each side of such right -of -way at a distance suitable for the appro- priate use of the intervening land, as for park purposes in residential districts. Such distances shall be determined with due regard for the require- ments of approved grades and future grade separa- tion. The Planning Commission may require that control of said intervening land strips be placed in the City under conditions approved by the Com- mission. 5. Street jogs with centerline offsets of less than one hundred and fifty (150) feet shall be pro- hibited. 6. A tangent at least one hundred (100) feet long shall be introduced between reverse curves on major thoroughfares. All minor streets shall have a tangent of at least fifty (50) feet long on reverse curves. 7.. When connecting street lines d other at any one point by more grees in alignment, they shall curve with a minimum radius of feet for major streets and two for minor streets. aflect from each than ten (10) de- be connected by a eight hundred (800) hundred (200) feet 8. On major streets the minimum sight distance for vertical curves shall be six hundred (600) feet measured from a point five (5) feet above the cen- terline of roadway. The minimum sight distance for other streets shall be three hundred (300) feet measured from five (5) feet above the cen- terline of roadway.