Blocks shall be designed to accommodate lots of the size required for the district as set forth in the Zoning Ordinance and provide for convenient access, circulation and safety of traffic on adjacent streets. The lines and boundaries of blocks shall be adjusted to conform to the topography and natural feature such as streams and lakes, and so that rear or side lot lines will coincide with corporation lines.
(a) When a parcel is too small to be laid out economically for the use intended and would result in fractional or odd shaped lots or otherwise not conform to the planning principles, the Municipal Approving Authority may request the developer to include adjoining unsubdivided land so a complete block may be planned and developed as a unit.
(b) Block lengths in a residential development shall be planned to average 1500 feet, and shall not exceed 1800 feet, or be less than 800 feet unless approved by the Municipal Approving Authority (see also dead-end street limitations Chapter 901 (Street Regulations)).
(c) Block widths in a residential development shall be planned to accommodate two tiers of lots. However, a single tier of lots may be required by the Municipal Approving Authority to separate residential development from major streets, adjoining non-residential land uses, or unusual topographic or natural features.
(d) A planting screen acceptable to the Approving Authority, of at least ten feet in width and with no right of access (excepting emergency accessways required by the Street Regulations), may be required along the line of lots abutting a major street or non-residential land use.
(e) The Approving Authority may require a marginal access street to serve lots fronting on a major street (see Street Regulations; Section 901.36(a)).
(f) Blocks for multi-family, business or industrial developments shall be adequate to accommodate the building sites and provide the yards, service drives, off-street parking and other required facilities, and shall be design for unit development and not according to the typical lot and street pattern.
(Ord. 2635. Passed 1-13-11.)