(A) Location. All lots must abut for their full frontage on a publicly dedicated street.
(B) Size. The lot dimensions must be such as to comply with the minimum lot areas specified in the zoning ordinance. Lot square footages must be designated on the preliminary plat. A letter must accompany the final plat, certified by an engineer or surveyor, stating that all lot sizes meet plat requirements.
(C) Transition lots. When platting is adjacent to incompatible land uses, except parks, depth of lots must be increased to allow for space, berming or other landscaping techniques to buffer each land use.
(D) Side lot lines. Side lines of lots must be substantially at right angles to straight street lines or radial to curved street lines.
(E) Water courses. Lots abutting upon a water course, drainageways, channel, or stream must have sufficient depth and width to provide a minimum area of land not subject to flooding equal to the minimum lot dimensions specified in the zoning ordinance for the district in which the lots are located.
(F) Drainage. Lots must be graded so as to provide drainage away from building locations. All landscaping features, such as retaining walls, and filling or grading, within drainage and utility easements must be reviewed and approved by the City Engineer and the City Manager.
(G) Natural features. In the subdividing of land, due regard must be shown for all natural features, such as tree growth, water courses, historic spots, or similar conditions, and plans must be adjusted to preserve those which will add attractiveness and stability to the proposed development.
(H) Lot remnants. All remnants of lots below minimum size left over after subdividing of a larger tract must be added to adjacent lots rather than allowed to remain as unusable or non-conforming parcels.
(I) Adequate setbacks. All plats with lots or tracts abutting on collector or arterial streets must have adequate width and depth to provide for the minimum setbacks to build in accordance with all city codes.
(J) Minimum rear lot line. Where practical, all lots should have a minimum of 30 feet in width at the rear lot line.
(K) Double frontage lots. Double frontage (lots with frontage on two parallel streets) or reverse frontage lots are not permitted except where lots back against a collector or arterial street. Such lots must have additional depth to allow for screening and/or planting along the back lot line in accordance with the Zoning Code, Environmental Quality. Vehicular access may be restricted as a condition of the plat.
(L) Cul-de-sac lots. If the front line of any lot is a curve or partly a curve with a radius of 175 feet, the frontage for purposes of minimum requirements, will be measured at the building line. In addition thereto, the front footage of the front lot line will be 60 feet or as modified under special procedure provisions as established by the zoning ordinance.
('72 Code, § 345:58) (Am. Ord. 1978-266(A), passed 6-12-78; Am. Ord. 1984-447(A), passed 4-9-84; Am. Ord. 1996-801, passed 3-25-96; Am. Ord. 2024-1304, passed 7-29-24) Penalty, see § 10.99