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ORDINANCE 2012-018 1. Width: Be a minimum of five (5) feet wide, or wider if so specified in the comprehensive bikeway and sidewalk plan, along all thoroughfare plan roads, and a minimum of four (4) feet wide along local roads and internal roads. Within subdivisions and planned developments, a minimum six-foot strip of irrigated and sodded landscape area shall be provided between the curb and the sidewalk. This area may be utilized for street tree plantings, or other landscaping approved by planning and engineering, where non -mountable curbs are provided. The method of irrigation shall be specified on the project's land development permit plans and approved by planning and engineering. 2. Location: Be located outside the roadside recovery area unless protective devices are provided (e.g. non -mountable curbs). 3. Accessibility: Have a curb cut and/or ramp at intersections, where required by federal and/or state accessibility requirements. 4. Culs-de-sac: Be installed along the entire length of internal roadways, except for cul-de-sac circles as specified below and except for cul-de-sac road segments exempted under subsection 913.09(5)(b)2.c. Internal sidewalks are not required around the circumference of roadway cul-de-sac circles. Where sidewalks are required along a roadway which terminates in a cul-de-sac and sidewalks following the circumference of the cul-de-sac circle are not proposed, the sidewalks shall terminate into the cul-de-sac circle pavement utilizing a design approved by the public works director or the director's appointed designee. 5. Function: Be designed to provide pedestrian access from residences to common recreation/community areas and to the public sidewalk system external to the project. Where a project's internal sidewalk system is designed to connect to the external public sidewalk system through an adjacent project, the applicant for the "dependent" project shall coordinate with the applicant/owner of the adjacent project to ensure that the design and construction of the sidewalk system interconnection is properly coordinated and accurately reflected on the project's land development permit drawings. (b) Provision. The developer shall be required to provide for construction of required sidewalk segments as follows: 1. Sidewalk segments along thoroughfare plan roadways. a. Exemptions. i. The developer is exempted from providing a sidewalk segment(s) along an unpaved thoroughfare plan roadway if the roadway is not scheduled for improvement on the county's twenty-year roadway improvements plan schedule. Bold Underline: Additions to Ordinance 7 C'�., i a 'fir Deleted Text from Existing Ordinance C:\Documents and Settings\tlister\Local Settings\Temporary Internet Files\Content.Outlook\QPAZMTU8\2012-018 913 and 914.doc