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Connectivity Standards are established to ensure that all of the following are met: (a) Streets are designed to efficiently and safely accommodate emergency fire and medical service vehicles. (b) The layout of a street system does not create excessive travel lengths. (c) The function of a local street is readily apparent to the user through its appearance and design in order to reduce non -local traffic on local residential streets. (d) Streets are interconnected to reduce travel distance, promote the use of alternative modes, provide for efficient provision of utility and emergency services, and provide for more even dispersal of traffic. (e) New streets are designed to meet the needs of pedestrians and cyclists and encourage walking and bicycling as transportation modes. (f) The street circulation pattern provides connections to and from activity centers such as schools, commercial areas, parrs, employment centers, and other major attractors. (g) Street design is responsive to topography and other natural features and avoids or minimi impacts to water - related resources and wildlife corridors. (h) Local circulation systems and land development patterns do not detract from the efficiency of adjacent collector streets or arterial streets which are designed to accommodate heavy traffic. (i) Streets identified as future transit routes should be designed to safely and efficiently accommodate transit vehicles, thus encouraging the use of public transit as a transportation mode. (j) Where appropriate, the street system and its infrastructure should be utilized as an opportunity to convey and treat storm water runoff. (2) Street Connectivity Standards. (a) All streets and alleys shall be public unless the developer demonstrates that a public street or alley is not necessary for compliance with this land use code or the street connectivity standards of subparagraphs (b) to (f) of this subsection. (b) The proposed development shall include street connections in the direction of all existing or planned streets within 114 mile of the development site. The proposed development shall also include street connections to any streets that abut, are adjacent to, or terminate at the development site. Secondary access for fire and emergency medical vehicles is required. (c) The proposed development shall include streets that extend to undeveloped or partially developed land that is adjacent to the development site or that is separated from the development site by a drainage channel, transmission easement, survey gap, or similar property condition. The streets shall be in locations that will not prevent the adjoining property from developing consistent with applicable standards. Ordinance - 275