17.16.070 Blocks.

A. Blocks shall be designed to assure traffic safety and ease of traffic control and circulation, to accommodate the special needs of the use contemplated and to take advantage of the limitations and opportunities of the topography.
B. Block lengths shall not be less than three hundred feet nor more than one thousand feet.
C. Blocks shall be wide enough to allow for two tiers of lots except where essential to provide separation of residential development from traffic arteries or to overcome specific disadvantages of topography and orientation or unless the city council approves the design of irregularly shaped blocks indented by culs-de-sac.
D. Right-of-way for pedestrian walk not less than ten feet wide shall be required where deemed essential to provide access to public or common facilities such as park, playground, streams and lakes. (Ord. 588 § 1(part), 1996)