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Lander City Zoning Code

4-9-9 Design

And Engineering Standards

  1. General Standards
    1. Subdivisions should comply with the general policy and land use recommendations of the Lander Master Plan.
    2. No subdivision shall be approved which includes features not in conformance with the zoning regulations of the City of Lander or which would obviously generate requests for variances from the provisions of the Zoning Ordinance.
    3. In designing the subdivision, the developer shall consider the topography and its influence on street patterns and drainage, the preservation of natural areas, and the separation of pedestrian activities from vehicular activities.
    4. A drainage report, over lot grading plan, and design drawings of drainage facilities must be submitted for review by the City Engineer/Public Works Director.
    5. Land subject to flooding shall be reserved for uses which do not increase the danger of flooding or are not endangered by flooding which might occur, or they shall be set aside in a designated drainage easement. Subdivisions which include flood plains or designated drainage easements within their boundaries, shall be platted in such a way that the proposed buildable area for habitable structures is outside of the easement or area subject to flooding.
    6. Lands subject to other natural hazards shall be identified and shall not be subdivided until the hazards have been eliminated or until adequate plans have been submitted and approved for eliminating or ameliorating the hazard.
    7. Where permanent easements are needed for utility service, they shall be provided ten (10) feet in width of each side of the appropriate rear or side lot lines for a total minimum easement width of twenty (20) feet. Easements for water and sewer mains shall be no less than 30’ wide. If any block of the proposed subdivision does not provide for alleys, then a front yard utility easement of ten (10) feet in width shall be provided.
    8. Drainage easements shall be provided where required by the City Engineer/Public Works Director. No drainage easement shall be allowed on residential side lot lines unless drainage improvements are placed underground.
    9. Utility easements for streetlights and other electrical services shall be provided where required by the City Engineer/Public Works Director.
    10. All utilities including water lines, gas lines, electrical lines, telephone lines and cable television lines shall be placed underground, except in cases where the City Engineer/Public Works Director determines that topography, bedrock or underground water conditions would prevent the developer from doing so.
  2. Roads, Streets and Alleys
    1. The arrangement of arterial roads and streets shall conform to the duly adopted Transportation Plan as it shall from time to time be determined.
    2. The arrangement of streets in a new subdivision shall make provisions for the continuation of important streets from adjoining areas.
    3. Streets that are obviously in alignment with already existing platted and named streets shall bear the name of the existing street. Other street names shall be subject to the approval of City Administration and Fremont County Planning and Rural Addressing.
    4. Provide for convenient circulation and means of entry for emergency vehicles from a public street.
    5. Whenever a dedicated or platted half street or alley exists adjacent to the tract to be subdivided, the other half of the street or alley shall be dedicated as a public way.
    6. Under normal conditions, streets shall be laid out to intersect, as nearly as possible, at right angles. Where topography or other conditions justify a variation, the variation from a right angle shall be no more than thirty (30) degrees.
    7. Cul-de-sacs shall conform to standards and specifications adopted by the City Council and contained in the City of Lander Engineering Standards and Specifications Manual - Most Recent Addition.
    8. If a street jogs at an intersection street and does not continue in a straight alignment, the centerline offset of the two parts of the street approaching the intersection street shall be not less than one hundred fifty (150) feet.
    9. Platting shall be accomplished in such a way that private drives and driveways access directly onto arterial streets as little as possible.
    10. No more than two (2) streets shall intersect at one point
    11. Alleys shall be provided in commercial and industrial districts unless definite provisions are made for service access. Alleys may be provided in residential districts.
    12. Alleys shall be permitted only between the rear yards of lots within the same block.
    13. Where a residential subdivision abuts a major highway, a railroad right-of-way, or a limited access freeway, a state highway, a frontage road shall be required.
    14. Dead end streets are prohibited except where they may be necessary to provide future access to adjacent undeveloped property. In that event, temporary turnarounds may be required on the dead-end street until the adjacent property is developed and the street is extended.
    15. If the developer encourages the use of solar energy within the subdivision, streets should be designed with a predominant east-west configuration.
  3. Tracts, Blocks and Lots
    1. Subdivisions shall consist of, in addition to public ways, an integrated and logical arrangement of tracts, blocks and lots. All blocks and all lots within each block shall be consequently numbered. Numbering of blocks and lots in later phases of a phased subdivision shall continue the sequence established in earlier phases.
    2. A tract is a land area, usually larger in size than a typical lot, set aside for a special use or not otherwise included within the normal subdivision pattern of blocks and lots. Tracts shall bear a letter designation, such as Tract A. Letter designations of tracts shall be sequential and shall not duplicate designations of tracts in earlier phases of a phased subdivision.
    3. Blocks in residential subdivisions shall be not less than five hundred (500) feet long and not more than twelve hundred (1200) feet long, except as expressly allowed by the Planning Commission and approved by the City Council.
    4. In a residential development, the block width shall normally be sufficient to allow two (2) tiers of lots. Blocks for business or industrial use shall be of suitable width and depth.
    5. The lot size, width, depth, shape and orientation shall be appropriate for the type of development contemplated. Developers encouraging the use of solar energy within the subdivision should consider orienting the length of each lot on an east-west axis.
    6. Corner lots and lots with streets on three sides for residential use shall have extra width to allow for a proper setback from both streets.
    7. Double frontage lots (blocks with one lot in width and streets bordering both sides) shall be avoided, except where these lots back upon a major street. Where this is the case, access to those lots from the major street shall be prohibited.
    8. Every lot shall abut and have access to an officially approved street or road.
    9. Side lot lines shall be approximately at right angles to straight street lines or radial to curved street lines.
    10. Whenever a plat is re-subdivided, the newly created lots shall be numbered to avoid duplication of any original lot numbers. A letter may be used in conjunction with a number, for example lot 2A.
  4. Manufactured Home Parks
    1. Manufactured home parks and manufactured home subdivisions shall be established only in accordance with all of the provisions of these regulations and the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Lander.
    2. Manufactured home parks may be served by private streets or dedicated streets. Dedicated streets shall be constructed to the standards required by the standards and specifications established by the City Engineer/Public Works Director. Private streets shall have an asphalt or concrete surface of at least twenty-four (24) feet in an access easement of at least forty (40) feet. All such private streets shall have unobstructed access to a public street or highway.
    3. Each Manufactured home unit shall have direct access to the public or private street system which serves the Manufactured home park.
    4. Each Manufactured home space shall be conspicuously numbered pursuant to Section 4-11-12.
    5. Adequate sidewalks shall be provided to serve each Manufactured home unit in the Manufactured home park.
    6. Manufactured home park areas shall be graded and well-drained and with adequate ground cover in open areas to prevent wind and water erosion of soil.
    7. Provision shall be made for adequate night lighting for the entire Manufactured home park area.
    8. Manufactured home parks shall provide on-site fire hydrants as directed by the Fire Department and as provided by the adopted City of Lander Engineering Standards and Specifications Manual - Most Recent Addition.
    9. Manufactured home lots may allow for an east-west placement of Manufactured homes to maximize solar exposure for each lot.
HISTORY
Amended by Ord. 1234 on 3/10/2020
Amended by Ord. 2022-1 on 7/12/2022

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