Sec. 654.111. - Design standards: streets.

(a) The character, width, grade and location of streets shall conform to the standards in this Chapter, the Land Development Procedures Manual, and the Review Procedures and Standards for Subdivisions Manual, and shall be considered in their relation to existing and planned streets, to topographical conditions and to public convenience and safety and in their appropriate relation to the proposed uses of the land to be served by the streets. It has been set forth in the Comprehensive Plan that the City shall utilize the following guidelines, where feasible, as minimum requirements for rights-of-way defined by roadway classification. There shall be no development including buildings, parking lots, and other development related structures within the required right-of-way identified below. Measurement shall be from the centerline of the existing roadway. (b) Local streets shall be designed to provide connectivity while discouraging cut-through traffic. (c) Where a subdivision abuts on or contains an existing or proposed arterial street or expressway, the Department may require marginal access streets, reverse frontage with screen planting or fencing contained in a non-access easement along the rear property line, deep lots with rear service alleys or such other treatment as may be necessary for adequate protection of residential properties and to afford separation of through and local traffic. (d) Where a subdivision borders on or contains a railroad right-of-way or limited access highway right-of-way, the Department may require an access street approximately parallel to and on each side of the right-of-way, at a distance suitable for the appropriate use of the intervening land, as for park or shared use/multi-use path purposes in appropriate districts. Distances involving rights-of-way shall also be determined with due regard for the requirements of approach grades and future grade separations. (e) Non-access easements controlling access to streets shall be prohibited except where their control is placed with the City. (f) Street jogs with centerline offsets of less than 150 feet on local streets and 200 feet on collector streets, or arterial streets shall be avoided, except where topographical conditions make this provision impractical. (g) When connecting streets deflect from each other at any one point by more than ten degrees, they shall be connected by a curve with a radius adequate to ensure a horizontal sight distance in accordance with City standard specifications. (h) Streets shall be laid out so as to intersect as nearly as possible at right angles and no street shall intersect another street at less than a 60-degree angle. (i) Property lines at street intersections shall be rounded with a radius of 25 feet or of a greater radius where required by the Department. Comparable cutoffs or chords in place of rounded corners may be permitted. (j) Upon the specific approval of the Department, areas shown on plats for streets, highways and alleys shall not be required to be dedicated to the public if the developer, on the plat, grants a nonexclusive and perpetual right of ingress and egress over and across such streets, highways and alleys to owners of lots shown on the plat and to delivery, pickup and fire protection services, police and other authorities of the law, United States mail carriers, representative of utilities authorized to serve the lands shown on the plat and holders of mortgage liens on the lands shown on the plat. In addition, the Department may waive other requirements herein that parks, parkways, easements, commons or other places included within the plat be dedicated to the public. With respect to private streets so approved the following additional standards and regulations shall apply: (1) At an intersection where the private street intersects or connects with a public street, the Department shall erect, at the developer's expense, a sign showing the private street name and indicating that the street is a private street. The quality of the sign, the size of the lettering and the method of mounting shall conform to the standards being used for marking City streets at the time of erection. Street name signs must also be erected by the developer at the intersection of a private street with another private street. (2) Ownership, and responsibility for maintenance of private streets, shall be vested jointly in the abutting landowners or in the name of an association comprised of all owners or property within the plat, or such other form of ownership approved by the Office of General Counsel and the Department. Retention of ownership of a private street by the developer shall not be permitted unless he is the sole owner of all abutting properties and agrees that any property abutting the private street which may be conveyed to others in the future will include conveyance of a nonexclusive easement for ingress and egress over such private street by deed recorded in the public records. (3) The documentation/instrumentation for homeowners associations shall be submitted to the Department and the Office of General Counsel for review and approval. (4) Private street names shall be submitted to the Director for approval and shall comply with the City's classification system. (5) The requirement for paving, curb and gutters, and sidewalks, may be waived by the Department on private streets which are in an area that is not projected to be urbanized in the Comprehensive Plan, provided the following conditions exist: (i) The street serves not more than six lots, each of which contains not less than 1½ acres; and (ii) Such street has a graded stabilized travel surface not less than 20 feet wide with roadside swales or ditches or provide positive drainage. (6) In all instances, a private street shall connect to a public street directly or by another private street constructed under the provisions of this Chapter or the former Chapter 730 , Ordinance Code. (7) The Director is authorized to disapprove a private street approved pursuant to this Chapter or the provisions of former Chapter 730 , Ordinance Code, and to remove the street from the list of approved private streets when, in the opinion of the Director, the street fails to be properly maintained. When a private street is removed from such list, it may be reinstated on the list of approved private streets upon compliance with all requirements established by the Director and certification by the City Engineer, subsequent to inspection of the private street, or full compliance with all such requirements. (8) No person shall sell land abutting a private street unless the prospective buyer has been given the following notice in writing, which notice shall be recorded in the public records of Duval County, Florida, as part of the deed or other instrument of conveyance which transfers the real property interest in the lands abutting the private street: TO: _____ The property at _______ which is the subject of this conveyance, abuts a private street which is owned and maintained by _______. The construction and maintenance of such private street is the responsibility of the owners. The City of Jacksonville will not maintain this private street under any condition, other than to relieve an unsafe condition as provided in the Ordinance Code. In the event the City of Jacksonville determines the necessity to pave or otherwise improve this private street, all abutting owners will be responsible for a pro-rata share of the total cost of such improvements, according to the amount of front footage of property abutting upon the private street in the proportion that each property bears to the total front footage of all such property abutting them. (k) Dead-end streets, designed to be so permanently, shall be prohibited except when designed as cul-de-sacs. The streets are limited to 1,000 feet in length; however, the Department may approve cul-de-sacs of greater lengths where, due to topographical or environmental conditions, design consideration or the number of lots to be located on the street, a greater length is deemed necessary. They shall be provided at the closed end with a circular dedicated area with a diameter of not less than 90 feet at the property line and not less than 60 feet at the edge of the pavement. There may be provided in the center of the turnaround an unpaved island, surrounded by a curb, improved with grass and landscaping that will not interfere with sight distance, which has a diameter or not less than 20 feet. The Department may permit a "Y" or "T" design of proper size for vehicular turnaround. In those cases where dead-end streets are intended to be extended in the later stages of the subdivision as revealed by the preapplication material, temporary turnarounds shall be provided at the present ends of those streets within the right-of-way areas required for those streets. (l) Street names and house numbers shall conform to the street naming and house numbering plan of the City. New street names shall not duplicate or closely approximate phonetically, in spelling or by use of alternate suffixes such as lane, way, drive, court avenue or street the names of existing streets, except that a new street that is an extension of or in alignment with an existing street shall bear the same name as that borne by an existing street. The Department shall, within ten days of conditional approval of the preliminary plat, assign or cause assignment of house numbers on all lots. (m) Street grades shall be determined in relation to the drainage installations for the subdivision. Plans for these designs (plans and profile) shall be approved by the Director. The plans shall be designed and drawn in accordance with City standards. Elevations shall be based on the North American Vertical Datum - 1988. (n) The City shall require all new or reconstructed streets to include bicycle facilities. Bicycle facilities shall meet the design standards in the City Standard Details, Land Development Procedures Manual, and Policy 4.1.1 of the Transportation Element of the City's 2030 Comprehensive Plan. (o) All new local streets in a residential subdivision that are adjacent and provide access to lots that are of a size allowed in a Residential Low Density - 60 ("RLD-60") zoning district or smaller, including lots of that size or smaller within a Planned Unit Development ("PUD") District, shall have a minimum paving width of 24 feet, not including curb and gutter. The paving width may be reduced to 20 feet if any of the following conditions are met for that section of the road: (1) The land is zoned as a Traditional Neighborhood Development ("TND") District, and an alley is provided relative to the street, then the dimensions for TND roadways shall apply; (2) A minimum of five on-site parking spaces, measured pursuant to Section 656.607 , Ordinance Code, are provided on each lot; (3) A minimum of one off-site parking space for every three lots is provided no further than 300 feet away from the furthest lot; or (4) At least one side of the road shall be designated as "No Parking" with either signs, striping, curb painting, or a combination thereof, as approved by the Department. (p) A two-lift pavement system with regard to application of the second asphalt lift (wearing surface) is required for all new local streets. Tack (prime) coat shall be required between multiple lifts. All infrastructure and the base course shall be constructed in accordance with applicable Subdivision Regulations and the warranty requirements of Section 654.110 . The wearing surface course application shall be delayed in each phase (as shown on an approved development plan) of single and multi-family residential developments until either: (1) Eighty percent of the units in that phase have received a Certificate of Occupancy; or (2) Twenty-four months have passed since the first Certificate of Occupancy was issued in that phase. (Ord. 91-58-147, § 1; Ord. 2002-714-E, § 5; Ord. 2007-308-E, § 1; Ord. 2013-185-E, § 6; Ord. 2018-271-E , § 2; Ord. 2017-805-E , § 1; Ord. 2025-30-E , § 20) Note— Former § 654.110 .