Collector street definition

Collector street means a street, existing or proposed, of considerable continuity which serves or is intended to serve as the principal traffic way between large and separated areas or districts and which is the main means of access to the major street system.
Collector street means the class of street that serves the internal traffic movement within an area of the County, such as a subdivision, and connects this area with the arterial system. Collectors do not handle long through trips and are not, of necessity, continuous for any great length. This principal difference between collector and arterial streets is the length of the trip they accommodate. Collectors in an industrial area would properly carry truck movements which serve to terminate in that area.
Collector street means a street whose primary function is to carry local traffic to other streets, and which also usually provides direct access to properties;

Examples of Collector street in a sentence

  • Side lot lines are proposed perpendicular to the rights of way and double frontage lots are only proposed along the short block fronting Theater Lane in order to prevent direct access to the Collector street.

  • Those lots double fronting along Theater Lane, a Minor Collector street, will contain access restrictions on the recorded subdivision plat, limiting driveways to the local street frontage.This application does not propose commercial accesses, or access to a State Highway.


More Definitions of Collector street

Collector street means a Street up to three lanes which carries traffic from Minor Streets to the Arterial Street system, including the principal Entrance and circulation Streets within residential Developments.
Collector street means a roadway designed to carry medium volumes of vehicular traffic, provide access to the major street system, and collect the vehicular traffic from the intersecting minor streets.
Collector street means a street located and designed for the primary purpose of carrying through traffic and of connecting major areas of the City. Unless otherwise designated by the Commission, collector street shall be defined on the plan for streets and community facilities in the comprehensive development plan.
Collector street means a street which collects traffic from residential streets and connects with arterials.
Collector street means a street used, or intended to be used, to carry traffic from minor streets to the major system of arterial streets including the principal entrance streets to residential developments.
Collector street means a public street, which provides for expeditious movement of vehicular traffic within a neighborhood, collecting traffic from minor streets and connecting to other major streets. Such a street is typically 2 to 5 miles in length. It shall have a right-of-way width of not less than 50 feet or more than 100 feet and a pavement width of not less than 32 feet or more than 56 feet.
Collector street means a street, existing or proposed, which is supplementary to an arterial street or which connects minor streets with significant traffic generators and which is shown as a collector street on the city's major street plan.