102-1242. Minimum lot size and lot frontage requirements – Additional standards to dimensional standards identified for the respective zoning districts.

The minimum lot size of one acre for a nonresidential lot, and minimum lot frontage requirement of 150 feet for a lot with frontage on a public road, shall increase in accordance with the following table to support a use or uses located on a lot that generates volumes of vehicular traffic per peak hour (vtpph), that meet or exceed the following standards. The volume of traffic shall be determined by the Institute of Transportation Engineers, Transportation and Traffic Engineering Handbook, Volume "_____" and as may be revised from time to time, or by a site specific traffic survey that is conducted by the applicant and reviewed and accepted by the code enforcement officer or planning board.

The code enforcement officer or the planning board may allow a reduction in the minimum lot size requirement identified in subsection (a) (above) for a lot that has frontage on a public road, provided that all uses on this lot use a joint access drive onto the respective road on which the lot fronts as the main means of two-way access to the lot. The joint access drive may be for uses that occur on this lot, or uses that occur on adjacent lots. The maximum amount of reduction the code enforcement officer or planning board may allow is 0.75 acres. In no case, however, may the resultant lot be less than the minimum lot size requirement of one acre.

The code enforcement officer or planning board may allow a reduction in the minimum lot frontage requirement identified in subsection (a) (above) for a lot that has frontage on a public road, provided that all uses on this lot use a joint access drive onto the respective road on which that lot fronts as the main means of two-way access to the lot. The joint access drive may be for uses that occur on this lot, or uses that occur on adjacent lots. The maximum amount of reduction that the code enforcement officer or the planning board may allow is 75 feet. In no case, however, may the resultant amount of frontage be less than 150 feet.

Any lot created on or before August 19, 2001, that does not meet the subsection (a)-(c) minimum lot size and minimum lot frontage requirements, on which a use was located on or before August 19, 2001, that generates traffic volumes greater than 101 vtpph, may continue to be used for the existing use. An expansion of the existing use is permitted, provided that the vtpph traffic volume that exists on the date of the requested expansion, does not increase by greater than 25%. This is a maximum lifetime expansion.

Any lot created prior to August 19, 2001, that does not meet the required dimensional standards, on which a use is located on or before August 19, 2001, that generates traffic volumes greater than 101 vtpph, and for which a change of use is requested, the requested change of use may be approved, provided it does not involve an increase in traffic volume that is greater than 25% of the traffic volume of the former use based on vtpph.