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Zoning File 11004 <br />February 14, 1986 <br />Page 2 <br />79. "Yard, Rear" - A yard lying between the required rear yard <br />setback line and rear line of the lot, for the full width of the <br />lot. On a lakeshore lot, the rear yard shall be the yard which <br />fronts on the street lying between the street line of the lot and <br />the required rear yard setback line. <br />Section 11.03 Subdivision Definitions <br />28. "Lot, Width" - The shortest dimension between opposite lot <br />lines measured at all of those points as required by the Zoning <br />Chapter of the City Code and this Chapter. <br />55. "Setback" - The shortest distance between a structure and a <br />natural feature, property lint or right-of-way line nearest <br />thereto. <br />65. "Subdivision" - The separation of an area, parcel, or tract <br />of land under single ownership into two or more parcels, tracts, <br />lots, (or long-term leasehold interests where the creation of the <br />leasehold interest necessitates the creation of streets, roads, <br />or alleys), for residential, commercial, industrial, or other use <br />or any combination thereof, except those separations: <br />a) Where all the resulting parcels, tracts, lots, or <br />interests will be 20 acres or larger in size and 500 feet in <br />width for residential uses and five acres or larger in size <br />for commercial and industrial uses; <br />b) Creating cemetery lots; <br />c) Resulting from court orders, or the adjustment of a lot <br />line by the relocation of a common boundary as long as each <br />of the two resulting lots meets the requirements of the <br />Zoning Chapter of the City Code. <br />As requested in staff's last memo, the applicant has submitted a <br />proposed sketch of a lot sr)lit of proposed Parcel B, I,ot 1 riparian <br />and Lot 2 non -riparian. <br />Our subdivision code provides little direction as far as <br />standards for lot design and actually defers to the Zo.-iinq Code. The <br />definition sections of Chapter 10 set the lot standards for the <br />individual zoninq districts establishinq yard requirements, and <br />contains the only direction. These are often conflicting, confusir.q <br />and ambiguous. <br />