In order to permit the arrangement and establishment of dwellings in group developments, when located on private roads for efficiency of accessibility, service, design and arrangement, while preserving commonly owned open spaces for recreation and privacy, land in an R-MF-L District may be developed as an Envelope Lot group development in accordance with the following standards and regulations:
(a) The arrangement and spacing of multi-family dwellings or one-family and two-family dwellings utilizing an Envelope Lot group development shall be accomplished in accordance with the formulas and regulations set forth in Chapter 1135, including without limitation the Site Development Regulations set forth in Section 1135.06, except that such dwellings may be placed on an Envelope Lot along with
(b) Envelope Lot group development may be used for detached one-family dwellings, two-family dwellings and multi-family dwellings and accessory uses permitted in Chapter 1135, provided, however, that any two-family or multi-family dwellings so utilized shall in each instance have one Envelope Lot, as defined by Section 1103.03 for each separate dwelling. For clarity, the term "zoning lot" as used generally in Chapter 1135 shall not be the same as or interpreted to be the same as an Envelope Lot.
(c) All dwellings, decks and attachments to the dwelling shall be located entirely within a recorded tract of land known as an Envelope Lot, and the Envelope Lot shall be owned in fee simple by the owner of the dwelling, and may be developed and owned in such a manner that each one-family dwelling and each dwelling unit of a two-family dwelling and any dwelling unit within a multifamily building shall be separately located entirely within a recorded tract of land or combined tract of land and rights above the surface, owned in fee simple, whose dimensions, locations, size and layout, including its location above the ground surface shall be subject to Planning Commission approval through a development plan review as if each Envelope Lot constituted an individual lot.
(d) There shall be no minimum area or minimum frontage requirement for a particular Envelope Lot. The boundaries of each Envelope Lot shall be clearly marked at each angle point by the developer with iron pins or other permanent monuments in accordance with the design standards of the City. Angle points on the back of an Envelope Lot which abut the common areas shall be marked with iron pins or other permanent monuments prior to issuance of any building permit for the construction of dwellings within an Envelope Lot. An Envelope Lot shall be arranged such that dwellings eventually built thereon will be able to meet the requirements of Chapter 1135.
(e) Driveways serving an Envelope Lot may be wholly or partially located on an Envelope Lot and wholly or partially located in a common area granting a right of access across such common area to private roads serving the group development.
(f) All commonly owned spaces for recreation and privacy shall be clearly shown and described on the Development Plan.
(g) The developer shall provide for the formation of a homeowners association in which each Envelope Lot owner shall be required to be a member and which shall be reviewed and approved by the Planning Commission at the time the development plan is approved by the Commission for use of Envelope Lots.
(h) The developer of the group development shall provide permanent easements in favor of each Envelope Lot owner to permit the construction, maintenance, repair, replacement and use of individual driveways and parking areas from the road serving the group development across common areas to a dwelling located on each Envelope Lot. The group development shall further provide for easements of access for common use to all common land areas within the group development for the benefit of each Envelope Lot owner. (Ord. 2020-21. Passed 2-18-20.)