Subject: 10086/Classification of Roads, Streets & Highways
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 1990 11:55:00 -0500


        
                             ORDINANCE NO.   10086 
        
        
                   AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND ORDINANCE NO. 6958, AS
                   AMENDED, KNOWN AS THE ZONING ORDINANCE, SO AS
                   TO AMEND ARTICLE II, SECTION 100, RELATIVE TO
                   ESTABLISHING DEFINITIONS AND SETTING CRITERIA
                   FOR THE FUNCTIONAL CLASSIFICATIONS OF ROADS,
                   STREETS AND HIGHWAYS.
                  
                  
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              	   BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
         CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, That Ordinance No. 6958, as amended, 
the
         Zoning Ordinance, be and the same is hereby amended as follows:
        
              	   SECTION 1.	  That Article II, Section 100, be
         amended to add the following new section:
        
                   (32.01)  "Functional Classification of Streets and
                            Roads":  The following shall be the criteria 

                            whereby streets and roads are classified:
                           
                            (1)	Principal Arterials:  Significant
                                intra-area travel; such as between
                                central business districts and outlying
                                residential areas, between major inner
                                city communities, or between major
                                suburban centers should be served by 
this
                                system.  Principal arterials are not
                                restricted to controlled access routes.  

                                For principal arterials, the concept of
                                service to abutting land should be
                                subordinate to the provision of travel
                                service to major traffic movements. 
                           
                            (2)	Minor Arterials:  Should interconnect
                                with and augment the urban principal
                                arterial system and provide service to
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                                trips of moderate length at a somewhat
                                lower level of travel mobility than
                                principal arterials.  These facilities
                                place more emphasis on land access than
                                the higher system.  Minor arterials,
                                ideally, do not penetrate identifiable
                                neighborhoods.
                           
                            (3)	Collector Streets:  Provides both land
                                access and traffic circulation within
                                residential neighborhoods as well as
                                commercial/industrial areas.  It differs 

                                from the arterial system in that
                                facilities on the collector system may
                                penetrate through the area to the
                                ultimate destination.  In the central
                                business district (CBD), and in other
                                areas of like development and traffic
                                density, the collector system may 
include
                                the street grid which forms a logical
                                entity for traffic circulation. 
                           
                            (4)	Local Streets:  Comprises all facilities 

                                not on one of the higher systems.  It
                                serves primarily to provide direct 
access
                                to abutting land and access to the 
higher
                                order systems.  It offers the lowest
                                level of mobility and through traffic
                                movement usually is deliberately
                                discouraged. 
                           
                           
         	   SECTION 2.	  BE IT FURTHER ORDAINED that this
         Ordinance shall take effect two weeks from and after its 
passage
         as required by law.
        
         PASSED on Third and Final
         Reading August 16, 1994.      
s/s_______________________________
         	   	     	       	          CHAIRPERSON
        
         	   	     	       APPROVED: ______ DISAPPROVED:_____
        
         	   	     	       DATE:  August 18, 1994.
        
        
         	   	     	       s/s______________________________
         	   	     	       	    	     MAYOR
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