For the purpose of discouraging the need for new public roadways,
every building shall be constructed or erected upon a lot or parcel
of land which abuts upon a public street. However, for those parcels
which do not abut a public highway, a permanent easement to a public
street shall be required upon which a private road may be located.
The municipality shall not be responsible for assuming any private
road as a municipal road.
When two or more parcels of land, each of which lacks adequate
area and dimension to qualify for a permitted use under the requirements
of the use district in which they are located, are contiguous and
are held in one ownership, they shall be used as one lot for such
use.
Both street sides of a corner lot shall be treated as front
yards in the application of bulk and area requirements.
The minimum area requirements specified for each type of allowed
use shall not prevent the construction of an allowable use on a substandard
sized lot which existed and was officially recorded at the time of
enactment of this chapter if the following conditions are met:
A. The substandard lot is not less than 75% of all of the applicable
standards.
For the purpose of maintaining sight lines and promoting traffic
safety, on a corner lot in any district, no fence, wall, hedge, or
other structure or planting more than three feet in height shall be
erected or placed within the triangular areas formed by the interesting
street edge lines and the imaginary straight line down between the
points 50 feet from the intersecting street edge lines along the street
edge lines.
In an existing neighborhood where structures are not set back
from the edge of the road and the distance specified by this chapter,
it shall be determined by the Code Enforcement Officer what appropriate
setback will be permitted by new construction or by the alterations
to existing structures in order to aesthetically blend with existing
adjacent structures. The varied setback will be based on the average
of the setbacks of the two adjacent structures minus up to five feet.
Any variation requested which is in greater variation than that permitted
by this rule will require an area variance.