Blocks shall be designed to accommodate lots of the sire required for the district as set forth in the Zoning Code and to provide for convenient circulation, service and safety on the bounding streets. The lines and boundaries of blocks shall be adjusted to conform to the topography and natural features, such as streams and lakes, and so that rear lot lines will coincide with drainage courses, railroads, division in land uses and corporation fines.
(A) Block Lengths (One-Family Subdivision). Block lengths shall be planned to average 1,500 feet and shall not exceed 1,800 feet or be less than 800 feet unless approved by the Planning Commission. A cul-de- sac street shall not exceed 500 feet in length. However, the Commission may permit a length not exceeding 1,000 feet if the parcel cannot be subdivided otherwise and if the right-of-way and pavement widths are increased in accordance with the standards set forth in § 1246.03
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(B) Block Widths (One-Family Subdivision). Block widths shall be planned to accommodate two tiers of lots. However, a single tier of lots may be required by the Commission to separate residential development from major streets, adjoining nonresidential land uses or unusual topographic or natural features. A planting screen of at least ten feet with no right of access is required along the lots abutting such a major street or nonresidential land use.
(C) Blocks for Multi-Family, Business or Industrial Subdivisions. These blocks shall be adequate to accommodate the building sites and provide the yards, service drives, off-street parking and other required facilities and shall be designed for group development and not according to the typical lot and street pattern.
(D) Partial Blocks. If the site of a proposed subdivision is of such limited dimensions as not to comprise an element of a neighborhood pattern and would result in a partial block with some fractional or odd-shaped lots, the Commission may plan the neighborhood and request the developer to incorporate the subdivision into the neighborhood plan, and all lots that cannot be conforming as to depth or other regulations shall be retained by the developer in the original parcel and not be approved as a building site or recorded as a separate lot.
(E) Pedestrian Ways. Ways of not less than 25 feet right-of-way and in a straight line may be required across blocks exceeding 1,500 feet in length or at the end of cul-de-sac streets for access to schools, playgrounds, bus stops or other public facilities where convenient pedestrian circulation has not been provided by streets.
(Ord. 16-63, passed 5-20-1963)