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Lake Como City Zoning Code

§ 17-10.12

Townhouses.

[Ord. No. 90-535]
Within any district allowing town-houses, no townhouse development shall take place unless the following minimum standards are met in addition to the requirements specified in Section 17-9 for multifamily district and until the site plan has been reviewed and approved by the Planning Board.
a. 
Each dwelling unit and combined complex of dwelling units shall have a compatible architectural theme with variations in design to provide attractiveness to the development, which shall include consideration of landscaping techniques, building orientation to the site and to other structures, topography, natural features and individual dwelling unit design such as varying unit widths, staggering unit setbacks, providing different exterior materials, changing roof lines and roof designs, altering building heights and changing types of windows, shutters, doors, porches, colors and vertical or horizontal orientation of the facades, singularly or in combination for each dwelling unit. Any overall structure of attached townhouses shall provide that no more than two adjacent dwelling units have the same setback.
b. 
All dwelling units shall be connected to approved and functioning public water and sanitary sewer systems prior to the issuance of a certificate of occupancy.
c. 
All parking facilities shall be on the same site as the building and located within 150 feet of the nearest entrance of the building they are intended to serve. Parking spaces shall be provided in areas designed specifically for parking, and there shall be no parking along interior streets. The total area devoted to parking shall not exceed 20% of the tract, and the total aggregate area devoted to both parking and interior streets shall not exceed 35% of the tract.
d. 
Building coverage shall not exceed 25% of the tract area.
e. 
No outside area or equipment shall be provided for the handling of laundry or the outside airing of laundry in any manner. Sufficient area and equipment shall be made available within each dwelling unit for the laundering and artificial drying of laundry of occupants of each dwelling unit.
f. 
Each building shall contain a single master TV antenna system which shall serve all dwelling units within the building, and there shall be no additional exterior TV or radio equipment permitted.
g. 
All streets both internal and external (including grading and paving), driveways, parking areas, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, street lighting, shade trees, water mains, water systems, culverts, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, pumping stations, drainage structures and such other improvements as may be found to be necessary in the public interest (including recreational facilities) shall be installed at the expense of the developer and shall be completed to the satisfaction of the Borough Engineer before a certificate of occupancy may be issued. In lieu of total completion of landscaping improvements only, an adequate performance bond properly guaranteeing the completion may be accepted. Such bond value will be set at the time of posting and will be held by the Borough Clerk of the Borough of Lake Como, after approval by the Borough Attorney as to form and surety, for a period of no more than one year, during which time the landscaping improvements shall be completed, or the bond will be forfeited.