Virginia Administrative Code › Title 24 - TRANSPORTATION AND MOTOR VEHICLES › Agency 30 - DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION › Chapter 91 - SUBDIVISION STREET REQUIREMENTS › Part I - General Provisions › Section 24VAC30-91-50 - Service requirements

Current through Register Vol. 40, No. 24, July 15, 2024
A.
				  Service consideration. A street may only be accepted by the department for
				  maintenance as part of the secondary system of state highways if it renders
				  sufficient public service to justify expending public funds for its subsequent
				  maintenance.
In the event the governing body requests the addition of a
					 street before it meets these public service provisions, the resident engineer
					 will review each request on an individual case basis and determine if the
					 acceptance of a street prior to normal service requirements is justified.
					 However, prior to deferring acceptance based solely on service requirements,
					 the resident engineer shall confer with the appropriate Central Office Division
					 Administrator or other designee appointed by the commissioner.
The public service requirements of this subsection may be
					 waived for cul-de-sac streets less than 0.25 miles in length when the
					 acceptance of the street or streets will complete the acceptance of all streets
					 within the subject section of the subdivision.
B. Criteria. For the purpose of these
				  requirements, public service may include, but is not necessarily limited to,
				  streets meeting one or more of the following situations:
1. Serves three or more occupied units of
				  varied proprietorship with a unit being a single-family residence,
				  owner-occupied apartment, owner-occupied residence in a qualifying manufactured
				  home park, a stand-alone business, or single business entity occupying an
				  individual building, or other similar facility. However, streets providing
				  service in settings similar to an apartment building setting will only be
				  considered for acceptance if the street is well defined and appears to be a
				  street rather than a travel way through a parking lot.
2. Constitutes a connecting link between
				  other streets that qualify from the point of public service.
3. Provides an extension of a street to the
				  subdivision boundary to facilitate the continuity of possible adjacent
				  development, if required by local ordinance. Such streets shall normally
				  incorporate an adequate means for vehicles to turn around and reverse
				  direction.
4. Serves as access to
				  schools, churches, public sanitary landfills, transfer stations, public
				  recreational facilities, or similar facilities open to public use.
5. Serves at least 100 vehicles per day
				  generated by an office building, industrial site, or other similar
				  nonresidential land use in advance of the occupancy of three or more such units
				  of varied proprietorship. Any addition under this provision shall be limited to
				  the segment of a subdivision street that serves this minimum projected traffic
				  and has been developed in compliance with these requirements.
6. Constitutes a part of the network of
				  streets envisioned in the transportation plan or element of a county's
				  comprehensive plan that, at the time of acceptance, serves an active traffic
				  volume not less than 100 vehicles per day.