2025 Ordinances - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

Sec. 33.1-44. Grades and curves and design of streets. (a) Minimum longitudinal street grades shall be 0.30 percent. (b) Unless otherwise approved by the agent, the design of streets and the radii of curvature on the centerline of streets shall be designed in accordance with the Traditional Neighborhood Design provisions contained within the Virginia Department of Transportation's Subdivision Street Design Guide, as last amended, and the City of Portsmouth Master Transportation Plan. (c) A tangent at least 400 feet long shall be provided between reverse curves on arterial streets, 100 feet on collector streets. Sec. 33.1-45. Intersections. For subdivision purposes, the agent may permit chords in the place of rounded corners. Street curbs at intersections shall be designed in accordance with the Traditional Neighborhood Design provisions contained within the Virginia Department of Transportation's Subdivision Street Design Guide, as last amended, and the City of Portsmouth Master Transportation Plan. Sec. 33.1-46. Lots. (a) The size, shape and orientation of lots shall be appropriate for the location and for the type of development contemplated. The width, depth and area of each proposed lot shall be consistent with those in the immediate vicinity of the subdivision. Each proposed 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) Corner lots for residential use shall be platted ten feet wider than interior lots, if necessary, to permit appropriate building setbacks on both streets. (e) Lots having frontage on two streets (except corner 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 agent may approve lots with less minimum average depth in downtown neighborhoods.