Any lot on which a building (or buildings) is to be erected or use is to be established shall abut a public street with the following exceptions:
(A) Any lot for which a residential use has been legally established prior to the effective date of this article in accordance with provisions permitting establishment of use on a lot served by a private and exclusive recorded easement of at least 15 feet in width connecting the lot to a public street, may be used as if it abutted a street; provided that, it is served by a driveway located on the easement;
(B) Any lot for which a non-residential use has been legally established prior to the effective date of this article in accordance with provisions permitting establishment of use on a lot served by a private, exclusive recorded easement of at least 15 feet in width connecting the lot to a public street, may be construed in the same manner as a lot abutting a street; provided that, it is served with a driveway built to appropriate standards located on the permanent, recorded easement;
(C) A site specific development plan may be considered for approval in the TC, NC, NR, OSR and TND-O Districts where residential and/or non-residential structures front upon a private courtyard, carriageway or pedestrian way, where adequate access by emergency vehicles is maintained by way of a rear alley and where the off-street placement of uses does not diminish the orientation of building fronts on the public street;
(D) A site specific development plan may be considered for approval in the Campus Districts to permit interior lot access by private drives so long as business and emergency access is furnished to all interior building sites and proposed buildings at the perimeter of the campus front upon public street(s). See the Campus Districts;
(E) A development site consisting of one or more legal lots of record which is developed under a coordinated, approved site specific plan and which is accessed solely by driveways shall only be required to abut a public street along some portion of the development site the minimum distance of which shall be determined by the town to be adequate for public and emergency vehicle access but which shall not be less than 35 feet; and
(F) A multi-family, townhouse, condominium or industrial development site consisting of one or more legal lots of record which is developed under a coordinated, approved site specific plan may be permitted, on a case by case basis, to be served by a private street network and shall only be required to abut a public street along some portion of the development site the minimum distance of which shall be determined by the town to be adequate for public and emergency vehicle access, but which shall not be less than 35 feet.
(2003 Code, § 8-3.7.2) (Updated 2009)