ARTICLE II. GENERAL
REGULATIONS
DIVISION 1. GENERAL LOT
REGULATIONS
Sec. 24.1-202. Lot frontage required.
Unless specifically exempted
by this section or other terms of this chapter or the subdivision ordinance, each lot or
parcel hereafter created shall have frontage on a public street, which frontage shall not
be less than the minimum lot width required for the district in which located.
(a) Where lot lines are established radially
from a curved street so as to increase the width of the lot with the distance from the
street line, the frontage of such lots may be reduced to not less than seventy percent
(70%) of the minimum required lot width or fifty feet (50') [15m], whichever is greater.
In such cases, frontage shall be measured along the chord of such curve and lot width
shall be measured at the minimum building setback line prescribed for the district in
which located. (See
Figure II-1 in Appendix A)
(b) In the case of lots fronting on a
cul-de-sac, the frontage of such lots may be reduced to not less than fifty percent (50%)
of the minimum required lot width or fifty feet (50') [15m] whichever is greater. In such
cases, frontage shall be measured along the chord of such curve and lot width shall be
measured at the minimum building setback line prescribed for the district in which
located. (See
Figure II-1 in Appendix A)
(c) Other provisions of
this chapter notwithstanding, flag lots may be permitted but only in
accordance with the following requirements and all applicable
requirements of the subdivision ordinance. Nothing in this section
shall be construed to recognize flag lots as a generally available
design technique to be used as a matter of right by any person
subdividing land:
(1) Flag
lots may be utilized to prevent unnecessary or undesirable accesses
to collector or arterial roads; or
(2) Flag
lots may be utilized to recognize unique physical or environmental
characteristics of a parent tract which preclude efficient and
logical subdivision in accordance with normally applicable frontage
requirements.
(3) The
following limitations shall apply to flag lots:
a. One lot, or a maximum of five
percent (5%) of the total lots in a subdivision, whichever is
greater, may be flag lots. This limitation shall be
cumulative for subdivisions consisting of
more than one (1) section. The zoning administrator may waive
this limitation upon
finding that authorizing the use of additional flag lots
would preserve environmentally
sensitive land or have a direct positive impact on designated
environmental management
or Chesapeake Bay Preservation areas.
b. Flag lots shall not be permitted whenever the effect would
be to in-crease the number of
lots with direct access to a major collector or arterial
street.
c. That portion of a flag lot comprising the "staff" shall
not be counted for the purpose of
determining minimum lot area compliance.
d. The minimum width of the "staff" portion of a flag lot
shall be twenty feet (20’).
e. Unless otherwise specified by the zoning administrator,
the front lot line of a flag lot shall
be the lot line which is closest and most nearly parallel to
the street to which the “staff”
portion of the flag lot connects.
(Ord.
No. O98-18, 10/7/98; Ord. No. 05-34(R), 12/20/05;
Ord. NO. 08-17(R), 3/17/09) |