Sec. 21-20. - Streets and highways.

(a)

Relation to General Plan. The street and highway arrangement of every subdivision shall not conflict with the circulation element of the county's comprehensive plan with respect to the placement of such streets, highways, or ways as may be shown thereon.

(b)

Relation to Topography. Topographic conditions shall determine the general pattern of blocks, and natural contours shall control the placement and alignment of streets, highways, and ways.

(c)

Relation to Adjoining and Adjacent Street System. Streets may be required to be laid out so as to directly continue the center lines of the principal existing streets or highways in adjacent or adjoining subdivided areas. In general, such streets shall have a width at least as great as the existing streets.

(d)

Waterfront Streets. In the subdivision of land abutting the Pacific Ocean or tidewater thereof, where conditions warrant, a street, walk, or roadway may be required parallel to the line of mean high tide, and no private development shall be permitted between such street, walk, or roadway and the Pacific Ocean.

(e)

Street Names. The names of new streets shall be subject to the approval of the decision-maker after review by the county surveyor and shall not duplicate existing street names where confusion is likely to result.

(f)

Dead-end Streets. Where necessary to give access to or permit a satisfactory subdivision of adjoining land, streets shall run through to the boundary of the property and the resulting dead-end streets may be approved without a turn-around.

(g)

Road Standards. In addition to the foregoing, road standards and principles shall be as prescribed by resolution of the board of supervisors. In cases where the director of public works deems that

circumstances warrant, minor deviations may be permitted from any of the foregoing requirements or any other requirements adopted by the board of supervisors pursuant to the terms of this division relating to roads, road standards and specifications.

(Ord. No. 1722, pt. 5, § 2: Ord. No. 4436, § 19)