Hawthorne Municipal Code Ch. 16.12 Streets and Highways

A. Freeways, limited-access and unlimited-access state highways shall conform to the standards of the Division of Highways, Department of Public Works, state of California, and where same are involved in any subdivision, they shall be subject to individual determination by the city. Said standards of the Division of Highways shall be deemed to be the minimum standards that will be acceptable.

B. Major streets shall be not less than one hundred feet in right-of-way and shall be designed to provide an eighty-four foot width curb to curb.

C. Secondary streets shall be not less than eighty feet in right-of-way and shall be designed to provide a sixty-four foot width curb to curb.

D. Local collector streets shall be not less than sixty feet in right-of-way and shall be designed to provide a forty foot width curb to curb.

E. Minor and cul-de-sac streets shall be not less than fifty-four feet in right-of-way, nor more than five hundred feet in length except where special conditions might justify a lesser width or greater length. The radius at the terminus of the cul-de-sac should be not less than fifty feet. Cul-de-sac and minor streets shall be subject to individual determination by the city. Stub end streets or rights-of-way may be required to the edge the subdivision.

F. Special local streets, where railroads, parkways, grade separations, freeways and hills or other dominant factors are involved, shall be subject to individual determination by the city.

G. Along major street, limited-access highways or freeways a service roadway separated from the traffic roadway by an acceptable separation strip, when indicated by the comprehensive general plan or precise plans of the city, or plans of the State Division of Highways, will be required for access to abutting private property and local streets. All dimensions on such multiple roadway streets shall be as defined on the city's precise plan or State Division of Highway plan, or in the absence of the above-mentioned sources, dimensions shall be prescribed by the city engineer.

H. Curved major streets shall normally have a centerline radius of not less than one thousand feet. Lesser radii may be used if evidence satisfactory to the city engineer indicates the above requirements are not practicable.

I. Curves on other streets shall normally have a centerline radius of not less than two hundred feet. Lesser radii may be used if evidence satisfactory to the city engineer indicates the above requirements are not practicable.

J. Curved secondary streets shall normally have a centerline radius of not less than five hundred feet. Lesser radii may be used if evidence satisfactory to the city engineer indicates the above requirements are not practicable.

K. Street corners at the property line shall have a radius of not less than fifteen feet or an equivalent angle.

L. Street intersections shall be as near right angles as practicable. In no case shall the angle be less than eighty degrees.

M. Streets which are a continuation of streets in contiguous territory shall be so aligned as to assure that their centerline shall coincide. In cases where straight continuations are not physically possible, such centerline shall be continued by curves.

N. In areas where no precise plans exist, the layout of all improvements including roadways, curbs parkways, dividing strips, sidewalks, sewer lines and water mains within the rights-of-way of all highways, streets, alleys and utility easements shall be in accordance with standards established by the city engineer and approved by the city council, and where no such standards have been adopted the arrangements shall be individually established by the city engineer and approved by the city council.

(Prior code § 12-2612)