A. Factors Governing Dimensions: Block length and width or acreage within bounding roads shall be such as to accommodate the size of lot required in the area by this title and to provide for convenient access, circulating control and safety of street traffic.
B. Lengths: Block lengths shall not exceed one thousand four hundred feet (1,400'), or be less than five hundred feet (500').
C. Arrangement: A block shall be so designed as to provide two (2) tiers of lots.
D. Crosswalks: In blocks over six hundred feet (600') long, pedestrian crosswalks may be required by the planning and zoning commission in locations deemed necessary to public health, convenience and necessity. Such crosswalk shall be eight feet (8') wide and be straight from street to street. Sidewalk easements may be required through the blocks to permit foot traffic.
E. Dimensions: Lot dimensions and area shall not be less than the requirements of this title.
F. Future Arrangements: Where parcels of land are subdivided into unusually large lots (such as when large lots are approved for septic tanks), the parcels shall be divided, where feasible, so as to allow for future resubdividing into smaller parcels. Lot arrangements shall allow for the ultimate extension of adjacent streets through the middle of wide blocks. Whenever such future subdividing or lot splitting is contemplated, the plan thereof shall be approved by the planning and zoning commission prior to the taking of such action.
G. Side Lot Lines: Side lot lines shall be substantially at right angles to straight lines or radical to curved street lines.
H. Corner Lots: Corner lots for residential use shall have extra width to permit appropriate building setback from and orientation to both streets. Lots abutting on a pedestrian walkway shall be treated as a corner lot.
I. Uninhabitable Lots: Lots subject to flooding and lots deemed by the mayor and city council to be uninhabitable shall not be platted for residential occupancy, nor for such other uses as may increase danger to health, life or property or aggravate the flood hazard, but such land within the plat be set aside for such uses as shall not be endangered by periodic or occasional inundation or shall not produce unsatisfactory living conditions.
J. Lot Remnants: All remnants of lots below minimum size leftover after subdividing of a larger tract must be added to adjacent lots, rather than allowed to remain unusable parcels. (2003 Code § 12-07-27)