§ 8-01. Lots.

8-01.1.

Shape. The lot arrangement, design and shape shall be such that lots will provide satisfactory and desirable sites for buildings, and be properly related to topography, and conform to requirements of this ordinance. Lots shall not contain peculiarly shaped elongations solely to provide necessary square footage of area which would be unusable for normal purposes.

8-01.2.

Size. The minimum lot size shall conform to the requirements of the zoning ordinance of the City of Newport News [Appendix A].

8-01.3.

Location. Each lot shall have the required frontage as required by the city zoning ordinance [Appendix A] on a street dedicated by the subdivision plat or on an existing publicly dedicated paved street, or on a paved street which has become public by right of use. Except for proposed, or relocations of, arterial streets when the right-of-way of existing streets are not of the required width, the subdivider shall be required to dedicate that portion of any right-of-way necessary to make said street comply with the minimum width fixed for same, measured from the existing center line.

8-01.4.

Side lines. Side lines of lots shall be approximately at right angles or radial to the street line, to include cul-de-sacs, where practical. In any case, where a side line is not radial, it shall be denoted as such on the plat.

8-01.5.

Remnants. All remnants of lots below minimum size left over after subdividing of a tract must be added to adjacent lots, or otherwise disposed of rather than allowed to remain as unusable parcels.

8-01.6.

Reserved tracts. The owners of a subdivision may designate parcels of land for the common use of the owners of property within the subdivision for recreational use or permanently reserved open spaces, provided:

(1)

The amount designated is sufficient in size, suitably located, has adequate access and is served with adequate facilities necessary to serve the recreational purpose intended;

(2)

That no parcel shall be thus designated unless it contains at least the minimum area for a residential lot as established for the zoning district in which such lot is located; and

(3)

That evidence is given that satisfactory arrangements will be made for the perpetual maintenance of such designated parcels to relieve the city of the future maintenance.

8-01.7.

(Reserved).

8-01.8.

Double frontage lots. Double frontage or reverse frontage lots shall not be permitted except where essential to provide separation of residential development from major thoroughfares or to overcome disadvantages of topography or where access to one (1) of the streets is restricted by fencing, planting or other appropriate screening.

8-01.9.

Usable land area. Not less than eighty (80) percent of the minimum lot area required by the zoning ordinance [Appendix A] shall be usable land by reason of elevation above flood level and not less than fifty (50) percent of such required minimum lot area shall be usable by reason of absence of easements or servitudes; provided, however, that all of the minimum area required for the building itself together with its required front, side and rear yard lines shall be usable land.

8-01.10.

Access to major thoroughfares. Residential lots created so as to abut on existing or proposed major thoroughfares and/or rights-of-way for major thoroughfares as designated in the adopted "Major Thoroughfare Plan" shall be planned to front on marginal access or service drives or otherwise planned so as not to provide direct access to the designated major thoroughfare.