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Sussex City Zoning Code

§ 19-8.4

Bulk and Other Requirements.

[Ord. 9/5/78, S8.4]
a. 
For single family and duplex dwellings: same as required in subsections 19-6.4 and 19-7.4.
b. 
For garden apartments:
1. 
Minimum lot area: Three acres.
2. 
Minimum street frontage: 50 feet if on a public street. If not, there shall be a satisfactory access to public streets, as determined by the planning board, at two separate points.
3. 
Maximum height: Two stories, not including garages; no apartments below ground level.
4. 
Maximum density: 12 units per acre of site area excluding public streets.
5. 
Setbacks from public streets: 50 feet; no parking permitted in this setback area.
6. 
Setbacks from lot lines: 50 feet.
7. 
Setbacks from driveways and parking areas: 20 feet, except for garages under buildings.
8. 
Maximum coverage of land by buildings: 20 percent.
9. 
Minimum distance between buildings: 50 feet between front and rear elevations of buildings; 50 feet between ends of buildings; front facade of a building not to overlap the sidewalk of an opposite building by more than eight feet.
10. 
Maximum length of buildings: 180 feet; length of an unbroken building facade not over 60 feet, with a setback of not less than five feet considered a satisfactory break in the building line.
11. 
Minimum floor space: one bedroom apartment, 750 square feet; two bedroom apartments, 950 square feet.
12. 
Minimum off-street parking: two spaces per dwelling unit.
13. 
Access drives: minimum 20 feet where no parking is permitted on either side. Parallel curb parking on access drives is not to be counted toward required off-street parking.
14. 
Minimum area of common recreation space: 20 percent of site area excluding public streets, developed for active or passive recreation for the residents of the apartment development.
15. 
Electric and telephone utility lines: shall all be installed underground.
16. 
Buffer strip adjoining a one-family residential zone: minimum ten feet.
17. 
Minimum distance from parking area to garden apartment building: 25 feet.