§ 19.26.030. Reduced roadway and lot frontage requirements.

A.

Flag Lots and Reduced Roadway and Lot Frontage Requirements. Public streets serving single-family residential lots may be replaced by private roadways (access lanes) twenty feet wide within a minimum thirty-foot easement used to serve up to eight lots.

B.

Such roadways and access lanes shall be shown in an easement dedicated to the property owners and public agencies that is designated by a note on the recorded plat as a "perpetual reciprocal easement."

C.

Such private access lane may be allowed with designation as an infill development or in other single-family residential zoning districts if the CPC finds:

1.

Physical conditions preclude development of the street, such conditions may include, but are not limited to, topography or likely impact to natural resource areas such as Arroyos, wetlands, ponds, streams, channels, rivers, lakes or upland wildlife habitat area or are source on the National Wetland Inventory or under protection by state or federal law;

2.

Buildings or other existing development on adjacent lands including previously subdivided but vacant lots or parcels physically preclude a public street now or in the future considering the potential for redevelopment;

3.

If the applicant can demonstrate that a future street cannot be made to serve the property, then the application for plat approval shall be processed subject to subdivision standards;

4.

For lots or parcels that do not extend from one street to another, the following diagram indicates how up to four lots may be platted fronting on a twenty foot wide access lane that extends up to two hundred feet in depth. Lanes in excess of two hundred feet must be twenty-four feet wide with an additional four feet of easement and be designated as a fire lane;

5.

For lots or parcels that do extend from one street to another, the following diagram indicates how up to eight lots may be platted fronting on a twenty foot wide access lane that extends up to four hundred feet in depth;

6.

The following diagram indicates how two separately owned adjoining parcels or lots may provide or be sequenced to provide thirty feet of easement and twenty feet of access lane;

7.

The following diagram indicates how lots will front on the access lane and where the front yard and parking setbacks are measured from. (Numbers are for example purposes only. The zoning ordinance has the actual dimension requirements.)

(Ord. 16882 § 2 (part), 2008)