Legal Documents of Dandridge

The location and width of all streets and roads shall conform to the official major street plan of the town or if not shown on such a plan, shall be not less than the minimum width of right-of-way for various street types as follows:

1. Collector streets–fifty feet (50'). Collector streets are those which carry traffic from minor streets to the major street system or arterial streets and highways and include the principal entrance streets of a residential development and streets for major circulation within such a development.
2. Minor residential streets–forty feet (40'). Minor streets are those which are used primarily for access to the abutting residential properties and designed to discourage their use by through traffic.
3. Marginal access streets–forty feet (40'). Marginal access streets are minor streets which are parallel to and adjacent to arterial streets and highways and which provide access to abutting properties and protection from through traffic.
4. Dead-end streets (cul-de-sac)–forty feet (40'). Cul-de-sacs are permanent dead-end streets or courts designed so that they cannot be extended in the future.

5. Alleys–twenty feet (20'). Alleys are minor public ways used primarily for service access to the back or side of properties otherwise abutting on a street.

   In cases where topography or other physical conditions make a street of the required minimum width impracticable, the board of mayor and aldermen may modify the above requirements. Streets through proposed business areas shall be increased ten feet (10') on each side if needed to provide parking without interference to normal passing traffic.

   New streets shall extend existing streets or roads at the same or greater width, but in no case shall the resulting right-of-way be less than the minimum width of the street to be extended, measured from lot line to lot line. (1995 Code, § 16-304)