Article V — GENERAL DESIGN AND IMPROVEMENT STANDARDS

those specified in any zoning regulations which apply to the land proposed for subdivision. However, for parcels which the zoning regulations require five (5) acres or more, the area required for road dedication may be included for area requirements if the area of the dedication does not exceed fifteen (15) percent of the minimum lot size requirement.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.1, 1971; Ord. No. 1279, § 1, 11-9-82)

In using

said table, interpolation shall be permitted.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.2, 1971)

(a)

The subdivider shall submit a "Slope Map" with the tentative map, showing by color or shading the areas of the tract lying within each slope category. No such map need be submitted if the average slope of the entire tract is ten percent (10%) or less.

(b)

No corner lot shall have less than 65 feet average width.

(c)

Lot sizes may be reduced if the subdivision is part of a Planned Community Development, or is approved under the Optional Design Standards of this Chapter.

(d)

Front property line may be reduced by one-third, but in no case to less than thirty-five (35) feet, where frontage abuts a cul-de-sac turnaround, or the outside of any curve having a centerline radius of less than one hundred and fifty (150) feet. Further reduction in front lot line width may be allowed for "panhandle" or "flag" lots, under the condition specified in the following Section.

(e)

"Panhandle" or "flag" lots, of required width and area will be allowed where terrain makes standard design or frontage impossible or impractical. Where such lots are allowed, the street frontage of each panhandle access shall be not less than twenty (20) feet wide, and the panhandle access shall be not more than three hundred (300) feet long. Not more than two such panhandle access points shall abut each other, and if so combined the width of each panhandle may be reduced to not less than fifteen (15) feet. All such access points or combinations thereof shall be separated from each other by the frontage of a standard lot required under the other provisions of this Chapter.

The Planning

Commission or the Director of Public Works may require, as a condition precedent to the approval of a final map, that satisfactory access can be provided to the undisturbed grade of each lot.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.3, 1971; Ord. No. 791, § 1, 3-19-74)

subdivision, is not served by any existing water supply system or sewerage system, and is to be developed with an individual water well and an individual septic tank or other approved method of sewage disposal on the same lot or parcel, shall have a minimum average width of one hundred fifty (150) feet and shall contain not less than forty thousand (40,000) square feet. The average depth of said lot or parcel in relation to depth shall be as stipulated by the Planning Commission.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.4, 1971)

(a)

Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Chapter, any lot which, at the time it is created by subdivision, is not served by any existing sewerage system, and is to be developed with an individual septic tank or other approved method of sewage disposal on the lot or parcel, shall have a minimum width of sixty (60) feet at the front lot line and shall contain not less than seven thousand five hundred (7,500) square feet.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.4, 1971)

feet, except where the physical condition of the land makes a lesser depth necessary.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.5, 1971)

streets where longer blocks may be required. Lots with frontage on more than one street will not be permitted, except corner lots, unless justified because of topographic conditions and then only upon approval of the Planning Commission and when access rights are released on one street.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.6, 1971)

length, and through other blocks where necessary to provide access to schools, parks, recreation areas and scenic easements. Such easements shall be not less than ten (10) feet wide and shall have a grade of

not more than twenty-five (25) per cent. Steeper grades may be allowed where permanent concrete steps are provided.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.7, 1971)

for poles, wires, conduits, drainage, sanitary sewers, gas and water mains, or other utilities. Easements of greater width may be required along lot lines, or across lots, where necessary for the expansion of main sewers and similar utilities. Such easements may be eliminated, or easements of a lesser width may be allowed by the Director of Public Works when in his opinion, after review with the public utilities involved, a lesser width is justified or no easement is required.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.8, 1971; Ord. No. 791, § 1, 3-19-74)

(a)

In areas where, in the opinion of the agency responsible for local fire protection, there will be a fire hazard to the watershed or to any other properties, unobstructed fire protection equipment access easements, not less than fifteen (15) feet wide, shall be dedicated from the public road to the subdivision boundary. The agency responsible for local fire protection shall recommend to the Planning Commission regarding the location, design and grading of such easements. The location, design and grading shall be as found necessary by the Planning Commission.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.8, 1971)

(b)

Water courses shall be shown as easements, and storm drains shall be placed in easements when public right- of-way is not available or adequate. The Planning Commission, on the recommendation of the Director of Public Works, may require water courses to be placed entirely in underground conduits or adequately fenced, or otherwise improved.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.8, 1971; Ord. No. 791, § 1, 3-19-74)

(c)

Easements required by this Chapter shall be shown along lot lines. Lots shall be designed to conform to existing easements on any land to be subdivided, unless said easements are relocated to conform to this Chapter. In case the width of any easement is greater than ten (10) feet on any one lot, the area taken up by such width in excess of ten (10) feet may be required by the Planning Commission to be deducted from the gross area of said lot when computing the minimum area required by this Chapter.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.8, 1971)

under policies adopted by said Planning Commission.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.9, 1971)

building setback line (B.S.B.L.) of not less than twenty (20) feet from the front lot line, and of not less than ten (10) feet from the side lot line adjacent to any street or road, provided that the Planning Commission may require a greater setback on unusually shaped lots.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.10, 1971)

Commission, they are necessary. A satisfactory temporary turnaround may be required.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.12, 1971)

"T" or three-way intersections are

preferable to four-way intersections, but the centerlines of any two streets intersecting a common street shall be separated by not less than two hundred (200) feet.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.13, 1971)

shall be dedicated to the County.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.14, 1971)

(20) feet in multiple family areas where necessary to control access to arterials and major streets.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.15, 1971)

Each such street shall terminate

in a turning area having a radius of not less than forty (40) feet to property lines. Turning areas having a similar radius shall be required at intermediate points on any cul-de-sac or dead-end street having a length in excess of five hundred (500) feet. The Director of Public Works may approve alternate turnaround designs. No cul-de-sac or dead-end street, or combination thereof, shall serve or provide access to more than thirty (30) lots.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.16, 1971; Ord. No. 791, § 1, 3-19-74)

tentative map.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.17, 1971)

of the County.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.18, 1971)

county road, or to a public road or right-of-way which meets the standards of this chapter as to design and improvement.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.19, 1971)

The County may, at its option, accept or reject any such offer.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.20, 1971)

intended for public use through the establishment of Zones of Benefit within the Countywide County Service Area, Permanent Road Division or other means acceptable to the Department of Public Works.

(Ord. No. 2725, § 2, 2-1-2005)

tenants and servants, may be shown as private streets, provided:

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.21, 1971; Ord. No. 2725, § 1, 2-1-2005)

(a)

Provision is made for continuing maintenance of said streets;

(b)

Said streets are designed and improved according to the standards of this chapter;

(c)

Intent of private use shall be shown by provisions for keeping said streets physically closed to travel by the public at all times, or by adequate posting as a private street;

(d)

The final map shall contain a conditional offer of dedication which may be accepted by the County at such time as the street shall have ceased to remain physically closed or posted and shall have been open to public travel for a period of not less than three months.

transport of pollutants shall be incorporated into the street design.

(Ord. No. 2813, § 10, 2-13-2007)

BMP structural source and treatment controls constructed as an appurtenance to streets and other parcels designed and intended for public use through the establishment of a Zone of Benefit or when constructed on private property through the execution of a Maintenance Agreement acceptable to the County.

(Ord. No. 2813, § 10, 2-13-2007)

Supervisors and on file in the office of the Department of Public Works and to the requirements set forth in the following article.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.22, 1971; Ord. No. 791, § 1, 3-19-74; Ord. No. 2730, § 4, 4-26-2005)

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.23, 1971)

(Ord. No. 2730, § 5, 4-26-2005)

during the construction of such roads, additional right-of-way shall be dedicated which shall contain said cuts or fills, together with an additional ten (10) feet of natural ground for sloughage, erosion control and maintenance access.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.24, 1971)

improvements, will not be approved unless such strips are necessary for the protection of the public welfare or of substantial property rights. Control and disposal of land comprising such strips shall be placed within the jurisdiction of the County, under conditions approved by the Planning Commission.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.25, 1971)

street, the subdivider shall dedicate and improve a service road to provide access to such lots, unless such service road already exists as part of the freeway or parkway.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.26, 1971)

abuts an existing County-maintained road, he shall dedicate by map or separate instruments the right-of- way and shall widen such road under the following conditions:

(a)

When such a road is an Arterial Road as designated in the Lake County General Plan, the dedication of right-of-way shall be thirty (30) feet from centerline of the existing road on the lots or parcels which abut said road, the widening shall consist of grading, draining, basing and paving to a width of eighteen (18) feet from the centerline of the existing road.

(b)

When such road is designated as a Collector Road in the Lake County General Plan, the dedicated width shall be twenty-five (25) feet from the centerline of the existing road and the road widening shall be sixteen (16) feet unless the road is listed as a proposed Class II Bikeway in the most recently adopted Lake County Regional Bikeway Plan, in which case the road widening shall be eighteen (18) feet wide and meet all of the conditions in subsection (a) of this section.

(c)

When such road is designated as a Minor Road in the Lake County General Plan and such road right-of- way width is less than required for a Minor Road under this chapter, then the subdivider or developer shall widen such road, when it abuts any lots or parcels to be subdivided, to conform to the requirements of Minor Roads.

(d)

The Planning Commission or Board of Supervisors or the Director of Public Works may grant a variation from the required widening provided they find that physical conditions make it impractical to construct said widening.

(e)

The Planning Commission (or on appeal the Board of Supervisors) may grant a deferral from the widening required by this section on properties designated as Rural Residential, Rural Lands, Agriculture or Resource Conservation in the Land Use Element of the Lake County General Plan when said widening is not currently needed for health and safety purposes or for the orderly development of the surrounding area. As a condition of the deferral, the subdivider shall be required to enter into an Improvement Deferral Agreement with the County. A deferral from the required widening will not be approved under any one of the following conditions:

(1)

Where the occupancy of the adjoining parcels that abut the road for a distance of a quarter mile exceeds six (6) residences upon one side of the road or eight (8) residences upon both sides of the road;

(2)

Where more than fifty percent (50%) of the road's respective classification improvements exist within one (1) quarter mile in each direction;

(3)

Where the County Road Commissioner determines that deferral of improvements would be contrary to public safety and welfare.

(Ord. No. 664, § 7.26, 1971; Ord. No. 791, § 1, 3-19-74; Ord. No. 2701, § 1, 10-5-2004; Ord. No. 2730, § 6, 4-26-2005)