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. Flag lots are generally to be considered an
unacceptable design technique except in planned developments, open space subdivisions (see
section 24.1-402), or in the following specific circumstances (See
Figures
I-3 and
Figure
II-2 in Appendix A):
(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 increase 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').
(Ord.
No. O98-18, 10/7/98; Ord. No. 05-34(R), 12/20/05) |