(A) Platting requirement. For the purposes of providing a proper arrangement of streets and assuring the adequacy of open spaces for traffic, utilities, and access of emergency vehicles, commensurate with the intensification of land use customarily incidental to a change of zoning, a platting requirement is established as follows:
(1) For any land which has been rezoned upon application of a private party, no certificate of occupancy permit shall be issued until that portion of the tract on which the permit is sought has been included within a subdivision plat or re-plat, as the case may be. This plat shall be submitted to the Planning Commission for their review, recommendation, and approval. Upon final approval, the plat shall be filed in the office of the Posey County Recorder.
(2) The Planning Commission, pursuant to their exclusive jurisdiction over subdivision plats, may remove the platting requirement upon a determination that the above stated purposes have been achieved by previous platting or could not be achieved by a plat or re-plat.
(B) Prerecorded lots. Any lot in a recorded subdivision may be considered a lot suitable for building purposes. A lot of record which existed in its present configuration and size prior to 1957 may be considered suitable for building purposes.
(C) Division of lots. A lot shall not hereafter be divided into two or more lots, unless all lots resulting from such division conform to all the applicable regulations of the zoning district in which the lots are to be located, and also comply with the Posey County Subdivision Ordinance.
(D) Street frontage required. No lot shall contain any building used in whole or in part for residential purposes unless such lot has a minimum of 70 feet of frontage on a public street or dedicated right-of-way, except a substandard lot of record, a lot within an approved planned unit development (PUD) or a lot within an approved townhouse development in the Residential Townhouse (RT) District or a lot within an approved mobile home park in the Residential Mobile Home Park (RMH) District.
(E) One single-family dwelling per lot of record. Not more than one single-family detached dwelling may be located on a lot.
(F) Lot area width and exceptions. The lot area and width requirements of the zoning districts shall not apply to the uses included within Use Unit 3, Public Protection and Utility Facilities, other than fire protection and ambulance services.
(Ord. 12-16, passed 8-8-12)