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Single-Family Residential Lot Split Study Report May 14, 2007 Other Standards and Ordinances The CAG discussed a number of other standards and ordinances as they pertain to lot subdivision regulation. Throughout the study, negative environmental externalities associated with single-family residential subdivisions were a concern for CAG members as well as those who participated in the neighborhood survey and Community Open House. Stormwater management and tree removal were recurrent themes. Although these topics were outside the general parameters of the study due to time constraints, the CAG felt that they were significant issues and warranted further study. Generally, the group discussed how the City could minimize environmental impacts created through not only single-family development but all development, and ultimately recommends that the City Council should consider creating incentives for environmentally friendly development practices. A more specific discussion focused on tree preservation and replacement regulation. Currently, neither the Subdivision Code nor Zoning Code has specific language requiring tree inventories or studies. As such, the CAG recommends that the City Council should consider a tree preservation and replacement ordinance. SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS The following provides a list of the Single-Family Residential Lot Split Study CAG's recommendations to the City Council and are organized by the code in which they seek to change or amend. After significant discussion, all but one of these recommendations are consensus-based recommendations. A. General Sin�le-Family Residential Subdivision Policy The City Council should continue to allow single-family residential lots to be subdivided or split if they meet the standards set forward by the City Code. (Consensus Recommendation) �. Subdivision Code 1. The City Council should not determine lot size using a formula ("sliding scale") based on the relative sizes of surrounding residential lots. (Consensus Recommendation) 2. The City Council should amend the Subdivision Ordinance to include variance language not currently found in this code by reiterating the variance language found in the Zoning Code. (Consensus Recommendation) 3. The City Council should amend the lot line requirement within the Subdivision Ordinance to require that lot lines are perpendicular to the front property line unless a variance is obtained. (Consensus Recommendation) 4. The City Council should amend the Subdivision Ordinance to allow single-family lots to be served by private streets if approval of the private street is conditioned on a legal mechanism (e.g. neighborhood associations) being in place to fund seasonal and ongoing maintenance and that the street cannot be gated or restrict traffic. (Consensus Recommendations) 5. The City Council should amend the Subdivision Code to require that new houses being placed on new streets within a new development access the new street in that subdivision. (Consensus Recommendation) 15