XI-1-31.04 and XI-1-31.06
Dimensional standards
Lot
Servicing
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Minimum frontageFrontageThe length of a lot line that touches a public street. on public right of way12.5 ft
Each resulting lot must have frontage on the public right of way of at least 12.5 feet.
- Minimum original lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. for urban lot split2,400 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The lot to be split must contain a minimum of 2,400 square feet.
- Minimum resulting lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built.1,200 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
The resulting lots must each contain a minimum of 1,200 square feet.
- No impact on protected housing
The urban lot split must not require or include the demolition or alteration of income-restricted housing, rent-controlled housing, Ellis Act withdrawn housing, or housing occupied by a tenant in the last three years.
- No prior urban lot split
The lot to be split shall not be a lot that was established through a prior urban lot split, and shall not be adjacent to any lot established through a prior urban lot split by the owner or person acting in concert.
- ProhibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance. locations for urban lot split
The lot to be split shall not be located on a site that is any of the following: prime farmland, wetland, very high fire hazard severity zone, hazardous waste site, earthquake fault zone, 100-year flood hazard area, regulatory floodway, land identified for conservation, habitat for protected species, land under conservation easement.
- Resulting lot areaMinimum lot areaThe smallest parcel on which the district allows anything to be built. as percentage of original
Each of the resulting lots must be between 60 percent and 40 percent of the original lot area.
From the ordinance
The lot to be split shall be located in a single-family residential zone. For the purposes of this section, the R1 Zoning District shall be the only single-family residential zone. Each resulting lot must have frontage on the public right of way of at least 12.5 feet.