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Home My WebLink About2004-01 PAGE 2 OF 6 P.K 4952 PG 75!) FEET2UO403U431 MOHAVE COUNTY ORDINANCE 2004-01 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 32, PORTIONS OF ARTICLES 32.7, APPLICATION INFORMATION, AND 32.8.D, ROAD AND STREET NAMES, REGARDING THE PUBLIC HEARING PROCESS FOR ROAD NAME CHANGES. The Mohave County Zoning Ordinance is amended as follows: added language is bolded. MOHAVE COUNTY ORDINANCE NO. 2001-08, SECTIONS 32.7 AND 32.8 32.7 Application Information Any person or entity requesting a new address, or to correct an address on the official addressing list, or requesting to name a public or private road, easement, or right-of-way, shall file an application through the Planning and Zoning Department. A. Fees Fees shall be adopted by the Board of Supervisors in a fee schedule to cover the administration and enforcement of these standards. A fee will not be charged for address changes that are a result of an error or omission by the county. When approved by the Board of Supervisors, addressing fees may be found in Chapter 8 of these regulations. 32.8 Addressing, Road Names, and Grid Development A. Address Numbering Concept - The address numbering concept used herein is point-of- origin on an axis. North-south and east-west baseline/axis lines shall be established for each address system. The intersection of the north-south and east-west baseline/axis line shall be the point-of-origin. Numbering shall increase in the north, south, east, and west directions from the point of origin. B. Grid Numbering Areas - Discrete areas of the county shall be given their own baseline axes, points of origin, numbering grids radiating from the points of origin, and street numbers. 1. Grid Numbering Areas shall be established only in areas which will not overlap other address systems. Portions of Grid Numbering Areas may be split off to create new Grid Numbering Areas if no addressing assignments exist in the new portion and the new Grid Numbering Area would be a logical division for 911 purposes. 2. If one existing Grid Numbering Area expands to overlap another address system where no addresses have been assigned, a dominant system shall be selected, or a new Grid shall be created. Otherwise: PAGE 3 OF 6 • BK 4952 PG 751 FEET2OO4O3OO431 MOHAVE COUNTY ORDINANCE 2004-01 PAGE 2 a. The non-dominant system shall be abandoned and re-addressed to conform to the dominant system, or b. The dominant system shall have limits established to restrict further expansion. 3. A Grid shall be based upon the standard land surveying construct of section, township, and range. 4. The section (one square mile) shall be the primary Grid division, with: a. Each section line divided into increments of one even and one odd number every 21 feet, for a total of 250 pairs of odd and even numbers. b. Existing sections with nonconforming hundred blocks shall remain unchanged. c. Existing, unimproved sections with hundred block designations shall comply with these standards, upon any residential or commercial development. C. The following Address Systems (Grid Numbering Areas) are established in the unincorporated areas of the county, and not including any area within a municipality: 1. Kingman area 2. Mohave Valley-Bullhead City area 3. Lake Havasu City area 4. Virgin River Communities area 5. Colorado City area D. Road and Street Names. 1. Any governmental agency utility, or property owner whose permanent documented access may be affected, may request establishment of a road or street name for any unnamed existing or proposed road, or the renaming of any road. The requesting person or agency shall submit proposed names and follow the standards for road naming, detailed in the Addressing Policies for road naming procedures. a. Requests to name a new public or private roadway shall be made during the planning stages, the preliminary plat, parcel plat, development plan phases, and/or rights-of-way dedications, and may be made by any governmental agency, utility, or property owner whose permanent documented access may be affected by the new road. b. Requests to name or rename an existing public or private roadway may be made by any governmental agency, utility, or property owner in Mohave County whose permanent documented access may be affected by the name change. PAGE 4 OF 6 BK 4952 PG 752 FEEY2004030431 MOHAVE COUNTY ORDINANCE 2004-01 PAGE 3 c. All requests for naming or renaming any public or private roadway shall be according to the Application Procedures for Naming or Renaming a Public or Private Roadway,which may be obtained from the Department. d. Road names found in conformance with these standards by the Addressing Official shall be submitted to the Commission and Board of Supervisors for approval and then recorded at the county recorder's office. e. Mohave County may correct road names when necessary, without consent of the property owners along the road alignment, if it involves correcting a 911 emergency response problem. The new name or rename for the road will be taken to the Commission and Board by the Planning and Zoning Department for affirmation at a regularly-scheduled public hearing. f. All records of survey containing new road names for public or private rights-of-way or easements shall be checked and approved by the Addressing Coordinator in accordance with the 911 emergency response addressing and road naming system for duplication and appropriateness. 2. Public Hearing Processing a. All applications to name public or private roads, easements, or rights- of-way in the unincorporated area of Mohave County for any given Commission or Board agenda may be combined as a single agenda item for public hearing. Individual road names on the agenda public hearing list may be rejected and the remainder approved by majority vote. 3. Road names shall be composed of at least the following: a. A primary name: The primary name may be composed of one or two words and each primary shall be considered unique. Foreign language names are included as long as they are appropriate to the locale and community road name patterns. b. A directional prefix: That which denotes the predominant direction of the road. c. A suffix: An identifier that denotes the road type. The following are common suffixes, and the abbreviations shall be used on road signs when full spelling of the road name limits sign space. English Spanish[usually with 'de' or `del'] Alley = Al Avenida = Ave Avenue = Ave Calle = Ca Bay = Bay Camino = Cam Beltway = Bwy Circulo = Crc Bend = Bnd Corte = Crt • PAGE 5 OF 6 BK 4952 PG 753 FEET200041030431 MOHAVE COUNTY ORDINANCE 2004-01 PAGE 4 Boulevard = Blvd Paseo = Pa Circle = Cir Placita = Pta Corral = Cor Vuelta = Vta Court = Ct Cove = Cv Drive = Dr Gulch = Gul Highway = Hwy Hill = Hl Hollow = Hlw Lane = Ln Loop = Lp Parkway = Pkwy Pass = Ps Path = Pt Place = P1 Plaza = Plz Point = Pt Ridge = Rdg Road = Rd Square = Sq Street = St Terrace = Tr Trail = Trl Way = Way 3. Review criteria for acceptance of street and road names: a. Non-duplication b. Alignment c. Correct Spelling d. Reasonableness e. Phonetics f. Length of name g. Same language used h. Foreign language compliance 4. Foreign language usage: a. Any person submitting a request to name a road where the name is a foreign word or the meaning of the road name is unclear shall provide a verification of the meaning, or a translation from a reputable dictionary of the language of the name, or another source fluent in the foreign language, before a road name application shall be processed. b. Meanings of Indian names requested for road names shall be verified by a member of the relevant tribe or other authority. c. Foreign language name review shall include: PAGE 6 OF 6 BK 4952 PG 754. FEET2004o30431 MOHAVE COUNTY ORDINANCE 2004-01 PAGE 5 1) Proper gender and number (generally used version; avoid exceptions). 2) Appropriate definite article, if any. 3) Commonly used meanings. 4) Proper use and placement of diacritical marks, if any. 5) English translation (or as close as possible). 6) Language type. d. Subdivision and development plan names shall also conform to the foreign language format. 5. General restrictions on street and road names (unless otherwise permitted by these standards): a. A new road falling on the alignment of an existing named road shall not assume a different name than the existing aligned road, regardless of distance or jurisdiction. b. A new road falling on an alignment with multiple names shall assume the predominate or closest proximity road name. c. Perpendicular directions for the same road name shall not be permitted. d. Existing names shall not be assigned to any other alignment. e. Each name shall not have more than one version of spelling. 6. Phonetically unsuitable or potentially confusing names shall be avoided in the same Grid Numbering Area; examples: a. Homonyms or homophones (e.g.: Nixon,Nickson). ° INDEXED NraRLMED 1 2004030431 BK 4952 PG 749 OFFICIAL RECORDS OF MOHAVE COUNTY rti < JOAN MC CALL r MOHAVE COUNTY RECORDER p MOHAVE�COUNTY 004 . PAGE41P BOARD OF SUPERVISORS RECORDING FEE 0.00 RESOLUTION NO. 2004-136 A RESOLUTION SETTING FORTH AN AMENDMENT TO SECTION 32, PORTIONS OF ARTICLES 32.7, APPLICATION INFORMATION, AND 32.8.D, ROAD AND STREET NAMES OF THE MOHAVE COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCE, AMENDING THE PROCESS FOR NAMING ROADS AT PUBLIC HEARINGS. WHEREAS, at the regular meeting of the Mohave County Board of Supervisors held on April 5, 2004, a public hearing was conducted to consider whether an amendment to Section 32 of the Mohave County Zoning Ordinance amending the road naming process at public hearings should be approved, and, WHEREAS, this amendment authorizes the Mohave County Board of Supervisors and the Mohave County Planning and Zoning Commission to agendize all road naming applications under a single agenda item for consideration, and allows the Board or Commission the ability to reject any or all proposed road names and approve the remainder, WHEREAS, at the public hearing before the Mohave County Planning and Zoning Commission on March 10, 2004, the Commission recommended APPROVAL of the amendment to Section 32 of the Mohave County Zoning Ordinance, amending Sections 32.7 and 32.8, the process for naming roads at public hearings. WHEREAS, the notice of hearing was published in The Standard, a newspaper of general circulation in Kingman, Mohave County, Arizona, March 17, 2004, and posted on March 19, 2004, as required by Arizona Revised Statutes and the Mohave County Zoning Regulations. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the Board of Supervisors, at their regular meeting on Monday, April 5, 2004, APPROVED the attached Mohave County Ordinance No. 2004-01, an amendment to Section 32.7 and 32.8 of the Mohave County Zoning Ordinance, amending the process for naming roads at public hearings, as recommended by the Mohave County Planning and Zoning Commission and outlined herein. 40,1*Ilm3 F43, ti,, MOHAVE COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVISORS ATTEST: �ti `� � 5ORS' , ® ',-��: `� 775 £ 4 1-(12 (..1C =�= '- Cyt ,riffle Byers, Chairmdn av A Ai4/ /7 r Barbara Bracken, Cle ti! P�_