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'" lot shall be oriented in a manner consistent with the existing platting pattern in the neighborhood. (b) Where no public sewer is available, the average width shall not be less than 75 feet and the area not less than 10,000 square feet for each dwelling unit. (c) Depth and width of properties reserved or laid out for commercial and industrial purposes shall be adequate to provide for the off-street service and parking facilities required by the type of use and development contemplated. (d) Comer lots for residential use shall be platted 1 0 feet wider than interior lots, if necessary, to permit appropriate building setbacks on both streets. (e) Lots having frontage on two streets (except comer lots), and reverse frontage lots abutting on an arterial or collector street with frontage on a lesser street, shall be avoided. (f) Side lot lines shall be approximately at right angles to the right-of-way line of the street on which the lot faces. (g) The subdividing of the land shall be such as to provide each lot with frontage on a public street. (h) Notwithstanding the provisions of the zoning ordinance, no lot shall be created by subdivision which has a street frontage of less than 16 feet. (i) Minimum average depth of residential lots shall be 75 feet. The Planning Commission may approve lots with less minimum average depth in downtown neighborhoods. (j) Flag lots may be permitted if the proposed flag lot makes it possible to better utilize an irregularly shaped property or if the flag lot is used to eliminate direct access to a collector or an arterial street. In all cases, the following requirements must be met: (1) The flag lot shall not access an arterial street. (2) No part of the flag lot's access to the street (the "flagpole" or "panhandle") shall be less than 16 feet in width for residentially zoned lots and 50 feet in width for non-residentially zoned lots. (3) The front property line of a flag lot shall not abut the side yard of an adjacent lot. (4) The strip of land used for access to the main portion of the flag lot (the "flagpole" or "panhandle") shall not be included in calculating the area of the lot for the purpose of determining compliance with the dimensional requirements of this chapter or chapter 40 ofthis Code, nor shall any part of the "flagpole" or "panhandle" be considered to be the front yard. (5) No more than ten percent of the lots, in subdivisions which create ten or more lots, may be flag lots. (k) Lot size. The minimum lot size shall be in accordance with the zoning ordinance provided, however that whenever there shall be plans in existence, approved by either the transportation department or by the governing body, for the widening, extension, or construction of any street or highway, the commission may require additional setbacks Page 25 of 33