(a) Lot Arrangement and Dimensions. Lot arrangement, design, and dimensions shall be such that all lots will provide satisfactory building sites. Driveway access to buildings on the lot shall be from a dedicated public street (existing or proposed or on a private street meeting City standards). Lots shall be properly related to topography and the character of the surrounding development, and shall be in compliance with the City Zoning Code and County health regulations.
(b) Lot Orientation.
(1) Residential lots shall front on a dedicated public street (existing or proposed) or on a private street in a planned unit development. All side lot lines where practicable should be at approximate right angles to street lines or radial to curving street lines, unless a variation from these rules will give a better street or lot plan. Variations are permitted to accommodate barriers such as streams and existing utility easements.
(2) The lot line common to the street right-of-way shall be the front line. All lots shall face the front line and a similar line across the street. Wherever feasible, lots shall be arranged so that the rear line does not abut the sideline of an adjacent lot.
(3) No lot shall have an average depth which is more than three and one-half (3-1/2) times its average width unless otherwise allowed by the Planning Commission.
(c) Double Frontage Lots and Access to Lots.
(1) Double frontage and reversed frontage lots shall be avoided except where necessary to provide separation of residential development from traffic arterials or to overcome specific disadvantages of topography and orientation. Residential lots abutting arterial or collector streets, where marginal access streets are not desirable or possible to attain, shall be designed as reverse lots or with side lot lines parallel to the major traffic streets. These requirements may be waived by the planning commission.
(2) Lots may not be created by dividing land at the end of stub streets in adjacent subdivisions, such stub streets being intended to promote continuity of street systems in adjoining subdivisions.
(3) Fifty (50) feet (minimum) of additional lot depth or a buffer strip in accordance with the landscape standards herein may be required where a residential lot in a subdivision backs up to a railroad right-of-way, a high pressure gasoline or natural gas line, open drainage ditch, an arterial street or interstate highway, an industrial area or other existing land use which may have a detrimental effect on the residential use of the property, and where no local street is provided at the rear of such lot.