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VOL 11893 PAGE198 . approved by the City Council and right-of-way for any such street or highway indicated on said Easter Plan shall be dedicated. 5.12 The street and highway design shall conform to any pro- ceedings affecting the subdivision, which may have been initated by the City Council or approved by said Council upon initiation by other legally constituted bodies of the City, County or State. If a parcel of land to be subdivided includes a portion of the right-ofeway to be acquired for a freeway or parkway, the City Council shall determine the boundaries of the right-of-way to be acquired, the subdivider shall either dedicate or withhold from subdivision all the area included in said right-of-way. 5.13 The following general conditions. shalll apply to street and highway design. (a) All streets shall., as far as practicable, be in alignment with existing adjacent streets by continuations of the center lines thereof or by adjustments by curves and shall be in general conformity with the plans made for the most advantageous development of the area in which the subdivision lies. (b) Streets shall be required to intersect one another at an angle as near to a right angle as is practicable in each epecifie case. (c) Whore necessary to give access to or permit a satisfactory future subdivision of adjoining land, streets shall extend to the boundary of the property and the resulting dead*end streets may be ap- proved without a turn-around, however temporary turn-arounds shall be provided unless specifically exempted by the Planning Commission for exceptional conditions. In all other cases a turnaround having a minimum radius of fifty (50) feet, shall be required. L axixnuri length of cul-d©esac street 250 feet, unless exceptional topographical con- ditions prevail, then the Planning Commission mane recommend an exception to this provision. (d) Intersection Corner Rounding. Whenever a major street or state highway intersects any other street or highway the property lines at each block corner shall be rounded with a curve having a radius of not loss than twenty (20) feet. On all other street intersections the property line at each b3.00k corner shall be rounded with a curve having a radius of not less than ten (10) feet. In either case, a greater curve radius may be required if streets intersect other than at right angles, and a greater curve radius may be required where deemed necessary. (e) Curve Radius. The center line curve radius on all streets and highways shall conform to accepted engineering standards of design and shall be subject to approval by the City Engineer. (f) Grades of Streets and Highways. no street or highway shall have a grade of more than seven percent ( 751, no major streets or high- ways shall have a grade of more than six (6 5) percent, urlees, because of topographical conditions or other exceptional conditions, the City Engineer determines that a grade in excess of the above percentages is necessary. (g) Deserved strips controlling the access to public ways or which will not prove taxable for special improvements, will not be approved unless such strips are necessary for the protection of the public wel- fare or of substantial property rights, or both, and in no case except in which the control and disposal of the land comprising such strips is placed definitely within the juuiediction of the City under conditions approved by the Planning Commis lion. 5.1te Streets and highways not shown on any Laster Streets and Highway Plan or affected by proceedings initiated by the City Council or approved by the City Council upon initiation by other legally constituted governmental bodies shall not be of lass width than those set forth here- under, except where it can be shown by the subdivider, to the satifaction of the planning Cor.mission, that the topography or the email/number of - a -