Chapter 17.29
SINGLE-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL – RS 12,500

Sections:

17.29.010    Dimensional standards.

17.29.010 Dimensional standards.

A. Minimum lot area: twelve thousand five hundred square feet.

B. Minimum width: eighty feet at building line with a minimum of forty-five feet of frontage at street.

C. Minimum setbacks:

1. Front yard as defined in BMC 17.04.040: thirty-five feet from the lot line abutting the public right-of-way.

If the right-of-way is designated to be widened, the front yard setback may be required to be up to sixty-five feet from the center of the street right-of-way and the setback for a side yard abutting a street may be required to be up to fifty-five feet from the center of the street right-of-way, depending on the designated width of the new right-of-way.

Lots not abutting a public street shall have a thirty-five-foot front yard setback. The location of the front yard shall be designated as part of the platting process or by the director for existing legal lots.

For flag lots, the property line that most closely parallels the street from which the lot gains its access shall be deemed the front lot line and front yard setbacks shall be measured from that line.

A minimum seven-foot setback from the edge of the pavement within any private ingress or egress easement to any existing or proposed structure on the property being subdivided; and fourteen feet from the edge of the pavement within the private ingress or egress easement to any existing structure on neighboring properties shall be required for any new subdivision of property where the private ingress or egress easement serves more than two lots.

2. Side yard: seven feet. The combined total of the two side yards shall be a minimum of twenty feet.

3. Rear yard: twenty-five feet.

4. Corner lots: Buildings abutting more than one public street (corner lots) are required to have a thirty-five-foot setback for the designated front yard and a twenty-five-foot setback for the other side abutting a public street. For such corner lots, all other setbacks will be side yard setbacks. The larger of the two side yard setbacks shall be located opposite the designated front yard setback (thirty-five-foot setback).

5. Minimum setbacks from private ingress or egress: There shall be a minimum seven-foot setback from the edge of the pavement within any private ingress or egress easement to any existing or proposed structure on the property being subdivided; and a fourteen-foot setback from the edge of the pavement within the private ingress or egress easement to any existing structures on neighboring properties shall be required for any new subdivision of property where the private ingress or egress easement serves more than two lots.

D. Maximum lot coverage: forty-five percent.

E. Maximum building height: thirty feet.

F. Parking requirements: see Chapter 17.48 BMC.

G. Landscaping requirements: see Chapter 17.50 BMC. (Ord. 482 § 6 (Exh. A), 2022; Ord. 443 § 1 (Exh. A), 2016: Ord. 442 § 2 (Exh. B), 2016: Ord. 430 § 2(Exh. B)(part), 2016: Ord. 20.W § 13, 2001; Ord. 20.O §§ 4, 5, 6, 1996; Ord. 20.N § 1(part), 1992; Ord. 20.M § 11.3, 1991)