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HomeMy WebLinkAbout06912ORDINANCE NO. 6912 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 4 OF TITLE XII AND CHAPTER 2 OF TITLE XVII OF THE PUEBLO MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE PUEBLO AREA TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM PLAN AND MODIFYING DEFINITIONS THERETO WHEREAS, various terms are used in the Pueblo Municipal Code to define major street and transportation plans, and WHEREAS, the City has or will adopt a transportation plan to be identified as the "Pueblo Area Transportation System Plan," and WHEREAS, the Pueblo Code of Ordinances should be amended so that all references to major street and transportation plans should be to the Pueblo Area Transportation System Plan; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF PUEBLO, that: SECTION 1 The following sections of Chapter 4 of Title XII of the Pueblo Municipal Code are amended to read as follows: (a) Sec. 12 -4- 2(11). Assuring that the street rights -of -way are in harmony with the City's official transportation plan known as the [major street plan] Pueblo Area Transportation System Plan (b) Sec. 12- 4 -3(5). [Major street plan] Pueblo Area Transportation System Plan means a master plan for the location of streets [and],street corridors rights -of -way or other transportation facilities as shown in Pueblo [Urban] Area Transportation System Plan adopted by the Planning Commission and by the City Council. The Pueblo Area Transportation System Plan shall specify the functional classification of existing and planned streets which shall be constructed in conformance with the Roadway Classification Design Standards and Policies as approved by the City Council. The Pueblo Area Transportation System Plan shall be applicable to all areas within the City and within three miles adiacent to the City as identified in the Pueblo Area Master Annexation Plan adopted by the City Council. (c) Sec. 12- 4 -3(9). Street means a way for vehicular traffic, whether designated as freeway, expressway, principal arterial, minor arterial, collector, street, highway, thoroughfare, parkway, thruway, road, avenue, boulevard, land, place, or otherwise. (d) Sec. 12- 4- 4(b)(4). All persons including, without limitation, boards, public officers, utilities, telecommunication companies and authorities shall be prohibited from accepting, laying out, improving or authorizing utilities or telecommunication systems or equipment to be laid in any street within the territory for which the Planning Commission and the City Council have adopted [a major street plan] the Pueblo Area Transportation System Plan unless such street shall be designated and approved by the [major street plan] Pueblo Area Transportation System Plan or shall have received a legal status of a public street prior to the adoption of the [major street plan] Pueblo Area Transportation System Plan or unless such street is shown on a.subdivision plat or a street plat which has been approved by and adopted by the City Council. (e) Sec. 12- 4- 4(b)(5). It shall be unlawful for any person to apply for a building permit or erect a building or other improvement upon any land within the territory or jurisdiction of the adopted [major street plan] Pueblo Area Transportation System Plan unless the requirements of this Chapter have been fulfilled and complied with. (f) Sec. 12- 4- 5(b)(7). The Subdivision Review Committee shall review the proposed subdivision to check its compliance with the provisions of this Chapter, with adopted subdivision regulations, with relationship to the comprehensive plan, with the [major street plan] Pueblo Area Transportation System Plan and with pertinent ordinances of the City. (g) Sec. 12- 4 -7(a). Acreage Subdivision. Where the parcel of land is subdivided into larger tracts than ordinarily used for building lots, such parcel shall be divided so as to allow for the opening of major streets and the ultimate extension of adjacent minor streets. The location of all streets in a proposed subdivision shall conform in general alignment to the [major street plan] Pueblo Area Transportation System Plan SECTION 2 Sec. 17 -2- 1(16.1) of the Pueblo Municipal Code is amended to read as follows: Sec. 17 -2- 1(16.1). Expressway, as found in the B -3 Zone District, means those streets designated as expressways on the adopted [Thoroughfare Plan of the Pueblo Area Transportation Study] Pueblo Area Transportation System Study SECTION 3 This Ordinance shall become effective immediately upon adoption by ordinance of the Pueblo Area Transportation System Plan. INTRODUCED November 11, 2002 BY Al Gurule Councilperson APPROVED: resident of City Council ATTEST; City C PASSED AND APPROVED: November 25. 2002