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Flex Lots: Diverse Design for Changing Families
Below is a draft building code called Flex Lot Design. This code would take the standard subdivision language and modify it to allow diversity of building lot size while retaining the number of lots within the residential low density zoning area of the City. Advantages of this codes are obvious: give the development community the latitude to design subdivisions while retaining a minimum lot size, nominal increases in density and great flexibility of design. This code could be used to achieve affordable housing within our neighborhoods; large lots and small lots all mixed together to encourage the mixture of incomes of the residents. Family homes next to homes for the elderly. Single parents with large families, all mixed together with a variety of house sizes and styles.

18.16.040 Lot requirements.  (This is the way the code is now…I propose to add an additional section see below)

 

The following minimum lot requirements shall be met:  

A.Lot area: seven thousand five hundred square feet. There shall be a maximum density of five dwelling units per acre. There shall be a minimum net density of four dwelling units per acre.  

B.Lot width: sixty feet at the midpoint of the lot or forty-five feet from the front yard line. Each lot shall have a minimum of twenty feet of frontage on a dedicated street or approved access way.  

C.Lot depth: ninety feet.  

D.Front yard: twenty feet from main building facade; twenty-five feet from garage facade if front loaded (i.e., garage door facing street) and protrudes streetward from main building facade.  

E.Side yard: five feet with a combined total of fifteen feet (unless abutting units are attached). 

F.Rear yard: ten feet.  

G.Lot Coverage. Maximum lot coverage shall not exceed fifty percent of the lot area. (Ord. 2003-10 § 1 (Exh. A, II(A)(4)), 2003)

 

18.16.080 Alternative Lot requirements

 

In order to preserve  natural features of the site (trees or critical areas) or due to  irregular  site shape, the following alternative lot requirements shall be met when a standard subdivision is proposed (greater than 4 units to be developed).

 

A.      Lot area: shall average six thousand nine hundred square feet (6,900). Each lot can be as large as ten thousand eight hundred square feet (10,800) or as small as three thousand seven hundred fifty feet (3,750).

B.      All lot areas totaled together and then divided by the number of lots proposed must be equal to or be greater than six thousand nine hundred square feet (6,900). There shall be a maximum density of five (5) dwelling units per acre. There shall be a minimum net density of four (4) dwelling units per acre.  

C.      Each lot shall have a minimum of twenty (20) feet of frontage on a dedicated street or approved access way.

  

D.     Front yard: twenty feet (25) from main building facade; twenty-five (25) feet from garage facade if front loaded (i.e., garage door facing street) and protrudes street ward from main building facade. 

 

E.      Side yard: five (5) feet with a combined total of fifteen(15) feet (unless abutting units are attached). 

F.      .Rear yard: ten feet (10).  

G.     .Lot Coverage. Maximum lot coverage shall not exceed fifty percent of the lot area. (Ord. 2003-10 § 1 (Exh. A, II(A)(4)), 2003)

 

 

 



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