4-7.1

Principal buildings per lot. Every building hereafter erected or moved shall be located on a zone lot; and in no case shall there be more than one principal residential building and its accessory buildings on a zone lot except as provided below.

(A)

Nonresidential group development. Two or more principal nonresidential buildings are permitted on a zone lot pursuant to a site plan approved by the town council, provided that an access driveway is maintained to each building in passable condition for service and emergency vehicle.

(B)

Residential group development. Two or more principal buildings are permitted in a multi-family development pursuant to a site plan approved by the town council, provided that an access driveway is maintained to each building in passable condition for service and emergency vehicle.

4-7.2

Street access requirements.

(A)

Access to public street required. Every zone lot shall abut and have direct access to a publicly maintained street or other public right-of-way legally dedicated, except as provided in this section. No building or structure shall be constructed, erected, or placed on a zone lot that does not abut and have direct access to a publicly maintained street or other public right-of-way legally dedicated, except as provided in this section. The zone lot shall have an open and passable access from the street, where the legally assigned address is located, to the principal building or structure. For corner lots, the access may be from the side street if the access is clearly visible from the street where the address is assigned.

(B)

Dead-end streets. For purposes of this section the terminus of a dead-end street does not provide the required access to a publicly maintained street unless that terminus is a circular turnaround or other turnaround approved and constructed in conformance with article V (Subdivisions: Procedures and standards).

(C)

Single family detached cluster development. Private streets may be used to meet access requirements for lots in single family detached cluster developments and for single family or twin home lots in planned unit developments, provided the development as a whole abuts and has direct access to a publicly maintained street.

(D)

Private lanes. Subdivision lots that abut and have access to private lanes platted in accordance with section 5-13.3(H).

(E)

Townhouse developments. Individual parcels shall have right of access through common areas containing private streets and/or private drives at least 24 feet in width leading to a publicly maintained street. Individual parcels may have direct access to a publicly maintained street with town council approval.

(F)

Manufacturing dwelling park. Manufactured dwelling park lots or spaces developed in accordance with section NO TAG.

(G)

Unified development. Individual parcels, whether leased or sold, in a unified development shall have shared rights of access along private streets and/or along private drives at least 24 feet in width leading to a publicly maintained street. Maintenance of all private streets and private drives shall be a mandatory responsibility, running with the land, exercised by a single entity which shall be composed of one landowner, an owners' association, or all owners acting collectively pursuant to a binding agreement.

(H)

Exceptions. Special-purpose lots may provide access via easement in accordance with section 4-6 (Special-purpose lots); and lots served by exclusive access easements in accordance with section 5-13.2(G).

(I)

Access from public street prohibited. Access from an commercial, office, industrial, or institutional zoning district shall be prohibited through an RS or RM district, unless it is the sole access.

(J)

Access through districts permitted. Any use located in a zoning district which is also a permitted use in a neighboring zoning district may have access through the neighboring zoning district without additional requirements.

4-7.3

Unified development.

(A)

Parking and landscaping. A unified development shall be treated as a single zone lot for purposes of providing required off-street parking and required planting yards, even if outparcels for sale are included within the development.

1)

If the entire development meets the total off-street parking requirement, it is not required that each parcel provide all the required parking for the use thereon.

2)

If required planting yards are provided along the development perimeter, including street frontages, and requirements for parking lot planting are met, planting yards are not required along property lines and lease lines between two parcels within the unified development.

(B)

Plat and notice requirements. If the owner of a development elects to organize it in an unified development, a plat shall be recorded displaying a prominent note identifying it as such and explaining that the property must be developed with common driveways and off-street parking and be subject to a common signage plan and a common landscaping plan. The note shall further state that should the property cease function as a unified development, the property will then be in violation of this Ordinance and shall be retrofitted with conventional parking and landscaping, even if doing so requires the removal of previously installed improvements.

(Ord. of 4-9-2007(1))