§ 1905. Streets and roads.

(a)

Public streets and roads within a development must meet the design and construction requirements for all such public roads established by Bulloch County.

(b)

Private streets and roads may be approved with alternate design and construction standards intended to foster "smart growth" concepts and accepted principles of "new urbanism." Such an alternate design must be approved by the development services staff, and may require curb and gutter to justify reductions from the right-of-way width required for a public street. Alternate designs may include but are not limited to:

(1)

Roundabouts and traffic circles.

(2)

On-street parking refuges with landscaped "bulb-outs."

(3)

Traffic calming strategies such as central landscaped islands, speed tables and undulating lanage created by variations in curb lines.

(4)

Alternate decorative paving materials at entrances and for pedestrian crossings.

(c)

While traffic signs and other traffic control devices must conform to the Federal Highway Administration's Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices, street name signs may be decorative in nature when used throughout a development, subject to approval by the development services staff for readability and ease of identification for emergency vehicles.

(d)

US 301 corridor access. Any new construction or change in the principal use on a property within the IGO district having frontage on US 301 must comply with the following design standards.

(1)

Along those portions of US 301 where a highway median is installed or planned:

a.

Full-service vehicular driveway access directly from US 301 shall be located only at median breaks where left-turning movements are allowed or planned and a left-turning lane in the median is or will be installed.

b.

Between installed or planned median break locations, vehicular driveway access directly from US 301 shall be limited to right-in/right-out movements and shall be located no closer to any other vehicular driveway access on the same side of the highway than 350 feet (measured centerline-to-centerline of each driveway).

(2)

Along those portions of US 301 where a highway median is not installed or planned, vehicular driveway access directly from US 301 shall be located no closer to any other vehicular driveway access on the same side of the highway than 350 feet (measured centerline-to-centerline of each driveway).

(3)

Properties having frontage on US 301 shall provide service road access to all abutting properties in accordance with Section 1906 as a condition of issuance of a building permit or development approval, whether or not such properties have independent access to US 301.

(4)

All driveway connections to US 301 must be approved by and issued permits by the Georgia Department of Transportation prior to construction. County driveway requirements that are more restrictive than those of the Georgia DOT shall prevail.

(Amend. of 9-2-14)