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Sidewalks not less than four feet wide shall be required to provide adequate circulation, or access to schools, playgrounds, shopping centers, transportation and other community facilities. Sidewalks not less than five feet wide shall be required adjacent to arterial streets as required by Section 1107.03.
(Ord. 90-1312. Passed 5-1-90.)
(a) Easements for utilities and drainage shall be provided, as required by the agency or utility that may be involved, across lots or overlapping or adjoining rear or side lot lines, and shall be of whatever width is necessary to provide for installation of such utilities or drainage and of whatever width and slope is necessary for access for maintenance, provided however that no such easement shall be less than twenty feet wide. There shall be no buildings, structures, improvements or appurtenances of any kind erected or placed upon any easement area.
(b) Where a subdivision is traversed by a watercourse, drainage way or stream, there shall be provided a storm water easement or drainage right-of-way conforming substantially with the lines thereof, and such further width or further construction, or both, as shall be required for the purpose of handling drainage.
(Ord. 90-1312. Passed 5-1-90.)
(a) Block lengths shall not exceed 1,800 feet except where alternate designs are approved by the Planning Commission.
(b) Blocks shall normally be designed with sufficient width to provide two tiers of lots. However, the Planning Commission may approve a more flexible block width design where due to heavy traffic ways, railroads, bordering streams, drainage courses, multi-family housing, commercial or industrial areas, schools, churches or other land uses a two tier block design is not appropriate.
(Ord. 90-1312. Passed 5-1-90.)
(a) Lot size, width, depth, shape and orientation and minimum building setback lines shall be appropriate for the location of the subdivision and the type of development and use contemplated.
(b) Lot dimensions in residential districts or for residential uses in other districts shall be as required by the Zoning Ordinance. Depth and width of properties subdivided for nonresidential purposes shall be adequate for off-street parking and service facilities required by the type of use and development anticipated.
(c) Double frontage and reversed frontage residential lots shall in general be avoided except where essential to provide residential separation from traffic arteries or to overcome other disadvantages of orientation or topography.
(d) Where utility or other easements are involved, lot lines shall be so arranged with respect to such easements as to permit efficient installation of the utilities without unnecessary irregularities in alignment.
(e) No lot shall be divided by a municipal boundary line without the approval of Council.
(f) Where there is a resubdivision of any lot, tract or other parcel of land, the resubdivided lots shall have the same character with respect to street frontage, alignment, size, shape, width, area and suitability for residential use as other lots within the existing block, neighborhood or subdivision.
(g) The panhandle of a panhandle lot as defined in Section 1103.02 shall have a minimum width of twenty feet and shall not exceed 300 feet in length unless an alternate design is approved by the Planning Commission. The panhandle shall not be used in the calculation of minimum lot size.
(Ord. 90-1312. Passed 5-1-90.)