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PRIMARY STREETS: Streets serving commercial, industrial and /or manufacturing areas and /or connection points of major traffic interest within the City. RESIDENTIAL ACCESS STREETS: Streets providing access to residents only and not serving business, commercial, industrial or manufacturing areas and not connecting points of major traffic interest. SPECIFICATIONS: The directions, provisions and requirements that are prepared for the project under consideration and made a part of the contract. SUB -BASE: The portion of the street lying between the base and the subgrade. SUBGRADE: That portion of the street which is the foundation for sub -base, base and surface. 501.030. BUILDING PERMIT ISSUANCE. No building permits will be issued for any construction with the City unless the building site is located adjacent to an existing street which is dedicated and maintained as a City street, or unless provision for street construction has been made in full compliance with this Code and in no case until grading work as provided herein has been completed and certified to the Clerk by the City Engineer; except that in isolated instances the Council may enter an agreement with a property owner for special handling of an unusual situation which agreement shall be recorded so as to run with the land affected. 501.040. REQUIREMENT OF BUILDING PERMIT. Before any improvement, construction or alteration of any kind whatsoever is undertaken within the limits of a right -of -way, the person proposing such improvement, construction or alteration shall procure a permit therefore from the City. 501.050. STREET IMPROVEMENT PETITION FORM. All requests for street construction, improvement or re- construction shall be initiated by a request to the Council upon a street improvement petition form. The form of petition shall be available to the public at all times at the office of the City Clerk or the City Engineer. Such petition, when properly executed, shall be filed with the City Clerk. 501.060. PRELIMINARY REPORT BY ENGINEER. Upon receipt of a street improvement petition, the Clerk shall present same to the Council. All such petitions, before being acted upon by the Council, shall be referred to the City Engineer for preliminary report as to feasibility of the improvement, as to whether it should be made as proposed or in connection with some other improvement, and as to the estimated cost. When the Engineer's report has been received, the Council shall determine whether such improvement is to be made and how it shall be financed. If the Council determines that the improvement shall be financed by assessment against benefited property, all further proceedings Page 20