18.18.050 Site Development Standards

A. Minimum site area is five acres. B. Minimum lot width shall be two hundred feet. However, for cul-de-sacs, the minimum width may be measured at a front yard setback of seventy-five feet. C. Minimum yard setbacks: 1. Front, fifty feet from existing or proposed public right of way on streets of less than eighty feet in width, seventy-five feet on all streets and highways of eighty or more feet in width; 2. Side, twenty feet adjacent to a residential boundary and for single-family dwellings; 3. Rear, fifty feet for single-family dwellings and one hundred feet from any street or lot line for any building or structure used for raising, housing, or sale of livestock or poultry; D. Building height: 1. Minimum, one story; 2. Maximum, thirty-five feet; E. Lot coverage: Not over ten percent of the lot area may be covered by materials impervious to water absorption. Lots with existing area coverage of materials impervious to water absorption exceeding ten percent, based on prior city approval, may have impervious surface areas removed, modified or replaced if the changes results in a lower total percentage of impervious surface and is closer to the current allowable standard of ten percent. F. Runoff water generated by developments or improvements such as buildings, driveways, sidewalks, parking areas, soil compaction, tilling, etc. shall be detained in a manner acceptable to the city engineer. (Ord.2021-9, dated 8/24/21; prior codes: Ord 99-17, dated 7/13/99, Ord. 8717.03 (part) and 1987 & §34-6a-4)