1. Blocks shall have sufficient width to provide for two tiers of lots of appropriate depth. Exceptions to this prescribed block width shall be as permitted by the planning commission in blocks adjacent to critical areas, major transportation facilities, and industrial and commercial areas;

2. Whenever practical, blocks along arterials and major collector streets shall not be less than one thousand feet in length. Blocks in other residential areas shall not be more than one thousand or less than three hundred feet in length;

3. Easements may be required to be established through blocks exceeding six hundred feet in length, to accommodate utilities, drainage courses/facilities or pedestrian walkways; and

4. Where blocks are developed along arterial streets and/or highways that are proposed to contain alleys, said alleys shall run parallel to said arterials, and not perpendicular or radial so as to create an intersection between the arterial and alley.

1. The lot arrangements shall be such that there will be no foreseeable difficulties, for reasons of topography or other site conditions, in securing building permits to build on all lots in compliance with the zoning ordinance and other regulations and in providing safe driveway access to buildings on such lots from an approved street;

2. Lot dimensions shall comply with the minimum standards of the zoning code; corner lots shall have extra width sufficient to permit required front and side building lines and yards and buildable width as required by Title 22 or other city regulations;

3. Double frontage and reverse frontage lots shall be discouraged except where necessary to provide separation of development from arterial streets or to overcome specific disadvantages of topography and orientation;

4. Lots shall not generally derive access exclusively from an arterial or major collector street. Where driveway access from an arterial or major collector street may be necessary for several adjoining lots, said lots may be required to be served by a common and combined driveway in order to limit possible traffic hazards on such streets. Lots on street intersections shall have corner radii of not less than fifteen feet from the property line;

5. Lots shall be laid out so as to provide positive drainage away from all buildings, and individual lot drainage shall be coordinated with the general storm drainage pattern for the area and designed pursuant to Chapter 13.46;

6. Each individually owned lot or unit shall obtain direct access from a dedicated public street by a panhandle access, approved private access road or approved alley with direct nonmotorized access;

7. Panhandle access will only be allowed when separated by at least one lot width, and shall serve no more than one lot. Panhandle access shall have a minimum width of twenty feet and a maximum length of two hundred feet;

8. Side lot lines shall be perpendicular to street lines or radial to curved street lines, unless waived by the planning commission in special cases that will give a better lot arrangement;

9. Post-construction soil shall comply with BMP T5.13 as described in Volume V of the Stormwater Manual of Western Washington, as adopted by the city;

10. No cut trees, timber, organic debris, earth, rocks or stones twelve inches in diameter or greater, contaminated or nonstructural surplus soil, junk, rubbish or other waste materials of any kind, including construction debris, shall be buried in any land without prior approval of the city public works director or designee. No cut trees, timber, organic debris, earth, rocks, stones, soil, junk, rubbish or other waste materials of any kind, excluding landscape materials, shall be left deposited on any lot or street at the time the buildings are ready for occupancy; and

11. Building setback lines shall be shown on all lots intended for residential use and industrial lots immediately adjoining nonresidential area. Such building lines shall not be less than required by Title 22. (Ord. 1111-15 § 4; Ord. 1016-08 § 2).