Ordinance No. 1010 05-03-1993 ORDINANCE NO. 1010
AN ORDINANCE RECODIFYING THE FRIDLEY CITY CODE CHAPTER
205, ENTITLED "ZONING" BY AMENDING SECTION 205.04.04.I
The City Council of the City of Fridley does ordain as follows:
4. BUILDING SITE
A. No lot shall be so reduced or diminished, nor shall any structure
be so enlarged or moved, as to reduce or diminish the yards, lot
area or open space required in the district in which it is located.
No yard or other open space required for any building shall be
considered as providing a yard or open space for any other building,
and no yard or open space on an adjoining lot or parcel of property
shall be considered as providing a yard or open space on a lot where
a building is to be erected.
B. Only one (1) principal building shall be located on a buildable R-1
lot.
C. Every lot, in order to be built on, shall have at least one (1) lot
line which abuts for not less than twenty-five (25) feet along a
street or along a permanent, unobstructed easement of access to the
lot from a public street as approved by the City.
D. Where no curb elevation has been established, the City shall furnish
such elevations. If curb elevations are not available, the City
shall approve the elevation of the building and the drainage plan
before a building permit is issued.
E. Sidewalks or provision for sidewalks will be required on all
arterial and collector streets. The City will furnish the elevation
for a sidewalk shelf, which is to be put at grade at the time a
building is constructed on the property. The sidewalk shelf will
provide the owner with an approximate finish grade for a sidewalk.
F. Easements for bicycle ways shall be provided on those lots
designated along trail corridors as noted in the City's Bicycle Way
Plan. The City will designate the required width of easements and
elevations for grades at the time a building is constructed on the
property. The bicycle way shelf will provide the owner with an
approximate finish grade for a bicycle way.
G. Where the front yard setback of existing buildings is greater than
the minimum front yard setback required and said existing buildings
are within one hundred (100) feet on either side of a structure to
be erected, then the setback for the new structure can be six (6)
feet more or less of this mean depth of the adjacent structures but
in no case shall it be less than the required front yard setback.
In the case where one of the adjacent properties is vacant, an
assumed setback of thirty-five (35) feet will be used.
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H. In computing the depth of a rear yard for any building where the
rear line of the lot adjoins an alley, one half (1/2) of the width
of the alley may be included as rear yard depth, provided that the
actual rear yard depth on the lot shall not be less than twenty (20)
feet in any residential district and not less than twenty-five (25)
feet in any other district.
I. No land shall be altered and no use shall be permitted that results
in water run-off causing flooding, erosion or deposits of minerals
on adjacent properties. The following standards shall be
implemented:
(1) The City hereby adopts by reference the Minnesota Pollution
Control Agency, Division of Water Quality, "Protecting Water
Quality in Urban Areas, Best Management Practices for
Minnesota" within which are the National Urban Runoff
Pollution Standards and Best Management Practices.
(2) A grading and drainage plan shall be submitted in conjunction
with a building or land alteration permit and shall be drawn
at a scale no smaller than one (1) inch equals two hundred
feet, and shall contain, but is not limited to, the following
information:
(a) existing and proposed grades with a minimum of two foot
contour intervals to a known sea level datum;
(b) sufficient spot elevations on all proposed hard surface
areas;
(c) estimated run-off of the area based upon five (5) and
one hundred (100) year 24 hour storm events with a
minimum time of intensity of twenty (20) minutes;
(d) provisions to carry run-off to the nearest adequate
outlet, such as a storm drain, natural drainage way or
street;
(e) location of any proposed ponding areas, indicating the
size and depth of the pond and amount of acre feet of
water to be stored;
(f) finished floor elevations of all buildings;
(g) identification of soil conditions by type and location,
including identification of the water table, and
suitability of the soil for the proposed development,
and
(h) identification of any areas located within a flood
hazard zone as identified by the City's floodplain
overlays.
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(3) A grading and drainage plan is not required for the following
development activities:
(a) minor land disturbance activities such as home gardens
and individual residential landscaping, repairs, and
maintenance work;
(b) construction, installation, maintenance of above ground
electric and telephone utility lines or individual
service connection to the utility lines;
(c) preparation for single-family residences separately
built on lots with slopes less than twelve (12) percent,
unless in conjunction with multiple construction in
subdivision development;
(d) disturbance of land areas less than 9,000 square feet
for commercial or noncommercial uses, except that the
City may reduce this exception to a smaller area of
disturbed land or qualify the conditions under which
this exception applies;
(e) installation of fence, sign, telephone and electric
poles and other kinds of posts or poles;
(f) emergency work and repairs to protect life, limb or
property; and
(g) federal, state, county, and municipal road construction
designed and installed according to standard
specifications.
(4) A conservation plan and time schedule shall be submitted in
accordance with Chapter 208.
(5) Stormwater run-off from a developed site will leave at no
greater rate or lesser quality than the stormwater run-off
from the site in an undeveloped condition. Stormwater run-off
shall not exceed the rate of run-off of the undeveloped land
for a 24 hour storm with a 1 year return frequency. Detention
facilities shall be designed for a 24 hour storm with a 100
year return frequency. All run-off shall be properly
channeled into a storm drain water course, ponding area or
other public facility designed for that purpose. Any change
in grade affecting water run-off onto an adjacent property
must be approved by the City.
(6) In order to ensure the construction was completed in
accordance with the approved design and plans, an "as-built"
survey of detention facilities on the property shall be
prepared and submitted to the City. The plan shall indicate
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the size, location, elevation, and depth of the pond as well
as the location of all structures and any ground opening
elevations on them.
(7) For those detention facilities which are to be maintained by
the property owner, a maintenance agreement shall be executed
by the property owner and recorded against the property title
to ensure proper ongoing maintenance.
J. The standards established herein serve, among the other purposes of
this Chapter, to provide each structure located on any land, a
building site suitable to its particular needs as well as adequate
areas of open space between that structure and any adjacent
building, and as deemed suitable or appropriate to each building or
structure and their respective uses. It is also deemed a purpose
herein to provide standards which encourage uses of land and the
erection of buildings and structures in areas which are open,
unplatted or without any substantial number of buildings located
therein, as are of a type, size, style and design as are deemed by
the City and its inhabitants to meet the needs and the purposes of
residential, commercial or industrial uses; and, to enable an owner
to make a reasonable use of a parcel of land recorded or approved
prior to the enactment of this Chapter and is therefore, smaller or
different in type, size, style or design from that otherwise
required herein.
K. No changes in exterior building dimensions, exterior parking areas
or drainage as established in approved City plans will be made
unless reapproved by the City.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FRIDLEY THIS 3RD DAY OF
MAY, 1993.
(A14:614144- 4"
WILLIAM J. E - MAYOR
ATTEST:
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Public Hearing: April 5, 1993
First Reading: April 19, 1993
Second Reading: May 3, 1993
Publication: May 11, 1993