§ 47-23.10. Modification of waterway lot width requirements.

A.

The department may authorize a reduction in the minimum lot width of a lot which is contiguous to or separated from a waterway by a street within the following residential zoning districts, subject to site plan level I review, in accordance with Section 47-24.2.

1.

RS-4.4: From a minimum lot width of one hundred (100) feet to a minimum lot width of seventy-five (75) feet when it is found that: At least eighty percent (80%) of the single family residences lying adjacent to the subject building site have been developed on parcels less than one hundred (100) feet in width.

2.

RS-8: From a minimum lot width of less than seventy-five (75) feet to a minimum lot width of fifty (50) feet when it is found that:

a.

At least eighty percent (80%) of the single family residences lying adjacent to the subject building site have been developed on parcels less than seventy-five (75) feet in width. For purposes of determining this percentage, adjacent residential properties shall be those properties located on a waterway along each side of the same street for a distance of three hundred (300) feet; or

b.

A multifamily use is located on the same street within three hundred (300) feet of the subject building site and all intervening single family residences have been constructed on building sites less than one hundred (100) feet in width; or

c.

That at the time this ordinance is adopted (March 6, 1990), a single family dwelling is located on a building site consisting of at least two (2) fifty-foot lots of record; and:

i.

The subject building site is located on a street not used exclusively for single family homes. For purposes of this subsection A.2, a street shall be defined as a public thoroughfare between two (2) cross streets or between a cross street and cul-de-sac or dead end; and

ii.

There are at least three (3) single family homes on fifty-foot building sites located within a one hundred-foot radius of the applicant's building site, which single family homes were constructed after the applicant acquired the building site.

(Ord. No. C-97-19, § 1(47-23.10), 6-18-97)