Sections:
9.12.01 Adoption
9.12.02 Identification of the plan
9.12.03 Responsibility and authority
9.12.04 Functional classification
9.12.05 Design of streets
9.12.06 Right-of-way and geometric design standards
9.12.07 Construction methods and materials
9.12.08 Proposed improvements
9.12.01 Adoption The City Council of the city of Mayflower does hereby adopt, approve, and accept the Mayflower Master Street Plan, consistent with the adoption and acceptance by resolution at the November 27th, 1995 meeting of the City Council. The required public hearing was held on November 25th, 1995, and the Mayflower Planning Commission recommended adoption at the regular meeting on November 27th, 1995, prior to the meeting of the City Council.
(Ord. No. 96-3, Sec. 1.)
9.12.02 Identification of the Plan The Master Street Plan of Mayflower, Arkansas, is composed of two parts–this text material and the plan map entitled, “Master Street Plan, Mayflower, Arkansas.”
9.12.03 Responsibility and Authority Power to Adopt and Enforce Plans. In accord with Act 186 of 1957, as amended: “Cities of the first and second class and incorporated towns shall have the power to adopt and enforce a plan or plans for the coordinated, adjusted and harmonious development of the municipality and its environs.” The Planning Commission. The Mayflower City Council has created a Planning Commission with appointment and terms of members provided by city ordinance number 95-3. The Mayor of Mayflower, consistent with the ordinance, has nominated a chairman and six members, all of which were confirmed by the Mayflower City Council. In accord with State Statutes, the ordinance provides that the general purpose of the Mayflower Planning Commission is to: “(1) Prepare, or have prepared, a plan of the municipality; (2) Receive and make recommendations on public and private proposals for development; (3) Prepare and administer planning regulations; (4) Prepare and transmit to the legislative body recommended ordinances implementing plans; (5) Advise and counsel the city government and other public bodies; and (6) Integrate such ordinances and resolutions of the Mayflower City Council as said Council may deem necessary for the planning efforts of the City. The Mayflower Planning Commission shall have the duty and function of promoting public interest in, and understanding of, long-term coordinated municipal planning.”
Master Street Plan. State Statutes provide that the “Planning Commission may prepare and adopt a master street plan which shall designate the general location, characteristics, and functions of streets and highways. The Plan shall include the general locations of streets and highways to be reserved for future public acquisition; it may provide for the removal, relocation, widening, narrowing, vacating, abandonment, and change of use of extension of any public ways.”
General Objectives of the Master Street Plan are:
A. to provide for the efficient and safe transportation of people and goods;
B. to minimize or eliminate the effect of traffic on residential areas;
C. to minimize the effect of frontage development on through traffic;
D. to provide a smooth transition for traffic from residential areas
E. to traffic arterial and expressways;
F. to provide adequate access to all parcels of land in a manner that will suit their needs and intended use; and
G. to recognize and fulfill the different transportation needs of properties of different uses, residential, commercial, industrial and public.
Implementation of the Plan. Following the adoption and filing of any plan or plans, the Planning Commission may transmit to the legislative body, for enactment, recommended ordinances and regulations which will carry out or protect the various elements of the plan or plans.
Scope of the Plan. The Plan is compiled within the scope of the planning objectives set forth below:
1. To functionally classify the street network, both within the City of Mayflower and within the extra-territorial planning boundary as established by the Planning Commission and the Mayflower City Council. The boundary is depicted on the Planning Area Map and on the Master Street Plan.
2. To functionally classify the street network in accord with the nomenclature and standards as established and enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, Act 308 of 1973.
3. To indicate on the plan map the corridors for proposed new streets and roads.
4. To recommend standards and criteria to guide street and roadway improvement planning and programming.
9.12.04 Functional Classification. As enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Arkansas, Act 308 of 1973, the functional classification is defined as the grouping of public ways by likeness of service or purpose into classes or systems according to the character of service they are intended to provide.
9.12.05 Design of Streets
Thickness Requirements for Flexible Pavements
Thickness for all flexible pavements, Classes III through VI, may be determined by soil tests run by a reputable testing laboratory. The test shall include characteristics for identifying Public Roads Administration (P.R.A.) soil groups and the Hveem Stabilometer Resistance Value of the subgrade materials as determined by a reputable testing laboratory. When such Hveem Stabilometer tests are not available, the developer’s engineer shall be permitted to select resistance value from a diagram showing the correlation between P.R.A. soil groups and the Hveem Stabilometer Value. Soils having an approximate Hveem Stabilometer Resistance Value of twenty (20) as determined above is the basis on which the following standards are established. The Standard Pavement as outlined in these specifications shall be defined as two (2) inches of compacted Asphaltic Concrete Hot Mix Surface Course placed on six (6) inches of Compacted Crushed Stone Base Course (SB-2) or Gravel Base (GB-2) conforming to Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department Standard Specifications (1978), as amended. All types of flexible
pavements, including soil cement stabilization with asphalt surfacing, shall be permitted providing, in the opinion of the Mayflower Planning Commission, the plans and specifications and construction will define and will result in pavement of equal or greater stability. The total thickness shall be determined by the methods outlined in the specifications.
No soil test shall be required except if in the opinion of the Mayflower Planning Commission the Hveem Stabilometer Resistance Value is less than twenty (20). Should the Hveem Stabilometer Resistance Value be less than twenty (20), the above standards shall not govern, and the total pavement thickness shall be determined based on the test results. Should the Hveem Stabilometer Resistance Value be greater than twenty (20), the above standards shall be modified as determined by the test results, but in no case shall the total thickness of the standard flexible pavements be less than eight (8) inches.
General Requirements for Stone Sewers and Drain Facilities
The capacity of all storm sewers and drainage facilities shall be determined by using a rational approach, giving due consideration to rainfall intensity, soil characteristics, proper run-off coefficients, slope, and the hydraulic properties of the pipes and drainage facilities used. Interceptors should be placed at intervals generally not to exceed six hundred (600) linear feet, except under special conditions, as approved by the Mayflower Planning Commission.
Design rainfall intensity shall be based on four inches (4″) per hour, except in new subdivisions, where the rainfall intensity shall be based on a time of concentration of at least once in ten (10) year expectancy, as determined from local rainfall records. The minimum design velocity shall not be less than two and one-half feet (2.5′) per second. The maximum design velocity should not exceed six feet (6′) per second for unpaved road ditch sections. Where design velocities exceed six feet (6′) per second, ditch stabilization measures such as sodding will be required. Where design velocities exceed ten feet (10′) per second, roadway ditches shall be stabilized with impervious materials, such as concrete, asphalt, stone or manufactured rip rap.
Construction Quality Control
A registered professional engineer or an independent testing laboratory must certify, to the Mayflower Planning Commission, that the following minimum standards for quality and quantities of construction have been met.
The base course must be compacted to a 95 percent standard proctor density prior to placement of any surfacing. Core samples for the determination of density and quantities may be required at the developer’s expense. Nuclear testing methods will be allowed for determination of densities. Copies of test results shall be provided to the Mayflower Planning Commission. The developer will repair cuts made in taking samples, at his expense.
Geometric Design
The developer shall provide certification by a registered engineer that dimensions are substantially in compliance with the standards for geometric design, and that no slope or gradient exceeds the maximum standards for slope and grade.
Bridges
All bridges and culverts constructed in the city of Mayflower and Faulkner County, within the planning jurisdiction of Mayflower, shall be in accordance with Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department specifications for “H-15” loading for Class V and VI and “H-20” or greater loading for Classes II, III, and IV (or as recommended by the Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department), before such bridges and culverts can be accepted for dedication to the city of Mayflower or Faulkner County system.
9.12.06 Right-of-Way and Geometric Design Standards. The following charts identify the six (6) functional classifications of streets and roads; the six (6) functional classes by levels of service; and the minimum right-of-way requirements and geometric design standards for Class II through Class VI roads and streets. Design standards are not shown for Class I (Interstate Highways) since these are the responsibility of the state not the city.
9.12.07 Construction Methods and Materials. The Standard Specifications for Highway Construction, Arkansas Highway Commission, current edition, as amended, shall be adopted as the standard specifications for the city of Mayflower.
exceed 200; subject to approval of the City Engineer and the Planning Commission, for curb and
gutter streets, only.
