37-18 Amending Chapter 21, Article 14 of the South Bend Municipal Code

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SECTION IV. Chapter 21, Zoning,of the South Bend Municipal Code, Article 14 Subdivisions, Section 21-14.03 (e) Blocks; standards, is hereby amended as follows: (1) The width of blocks shall be sufficient to avoid double frontage lots,except where reverse frontage on a major thoroughfare is required. (2) Where effective use of land does not require otherwise, blocks in residential subdivisions shall not exceed sixteen hundred (1,600)one thousand (1,000) feet in length. (3) (1,000) feet whe pedeatrienway, not less than ten (10) feet in width Fna),be fequir-ed n,-.Rr-the d paved to a width ef five (5) feet. The perimeter of any block shall not exceed two thousand eight hundred(2,800)feet in length. SECTION V. Chapter 21,Zoning, of the South Bend Municipal Code, Article 14 Subdivisions, Section 21-14.03 (f) Lots; standards, is hereby amended as follows: (1) Residential l s shall in no ease be less than sixty(6 0T) feet ; .width at t.l..a.. bHilding line,neF eentain less than six thousand (6,000) squaFe feet in area. (2) Gerner-lots shall in ne case be less than sixty Aye(65) fat : width at the area.building line, nor-eantain less than seven theusand (7,009)squafe feet in(3) The depth to width ratie of the useable aFea, • •, the area which is n64 unuseable F 1building,serviGe, national 9F similar-aet:.,;t;es by reason of the existenee of geelegie,WpOgFaphie, drainage, OF other-similar half(2.5) to one (1.0), exceept where a vaFianee becomes neeessary feF the ( 7 ( I (�4 (2) Every lot shall abut on a public street or have dedicated access to a public street as permitted by the Zoning Ordinance. (7) WheFe lar-geF than nermal lots are pfopesed, they shall be of-surah shape and dimensions that ftitare treet. ay r be platted along 1„t lines. (9) (41 hots shall be numbered consecutively throughout the entire subdivision.