Sec. 98-5.8.1 - 98-5.8.5 (Common Area Requirements)
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
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- Maximum percentage of common area with development challenges50 pct
No more than 50 percent of any area otherwise containing obvious development challenges, including the presence of the regulated 100-year floodplain, open water, jurisdictional wetlands, a slope greater than or equal to 25 percent grade or geological hazards may be considered to comply with the common area requirement.
- Maximum distance from any lot to common area0.25 miles
No lot within the subdivision should be further than a ¼-mile radius from the required common area.
- Minimum access easement width to common area30 ft
Access to the common area shall be provided either by an abutting street or easement. Such easement shall be not less than 30 feet wide.
- Minimum common area width50 ft
The minimum width for any required common area shall be 50 feet.
- Minimum percentage of common area that must be contiguous60 pct
At least 60 percent of the required common area shall be contiguous.
- Minimum percentage of common area that must be improved25 pct
At least 25 percent of the common area shall be improved.
From the ordinance
The minimum width for any required common area shall be 50 feet. ... At least 60 percent of the required common area shall be contiguous. ... At least 25 percent of the common area shall be improved.