2801 Pinetree Blvd Thomasville, GA 31792-4856

(1) Within the A, R-1A, R-1B, R-1, R-2A, and R-2 districts, maximum land coverage shall be the same as the maximum building lot coverage listed within the development standards of the residential district, calculated by dividing the total ground coverage of the several buildings within a cluster housing development by the total lot area of the several lots and the common open space. (2) No more than sixty (60) percent of the gross land area may be covered by impermeable surfaces including, but not limited to, buildings, off-street parking and drives, tennis courts, and the like, nor by swimming pools and drainage facilities. On the remaining forty (40) percent of the gross land area, permeable surfaces may be contained within either individual building lots or common areas or within a combination of the two (2) areas. Detention facilities meeting the following criteria may be used to help achieve the forty (40) percent permeable surface requirement: a. The maximum depth of the detention facility shall not exceed two and one-half (2 1/2) feet below the existing ground elevation measured beneath the rim of the depression. b. The detention facility shall be designed and constructed to drain completely after each rain event. c. The detention facility shall be designed and constructed with a minimum of three to one (3:1) side slopes. d. The detention facility shall be grassed or sodded. e. Any other unique detention facility that is designed to be usable and maintained for recreation or landscaping features or both may be used to meet the thirty (30) percent permeable surface requirement if approved by the city council to meet this intent. In addition, each two (2) square feet of existing or natural water surface or both or periodically flooded (based on the one hundred (100) year flood contour elevation) or inundated land may be credited as one (1) Thomasville Municipal Code Last amended 6-21-17 square foot of land area to meet the thirty (30) percent permeable surface requirement; (e) To preserve the integrity of the surrounding area, the city council may require certain screening buffers as part of the new development, all as provided for elsewhere in this chapter; (f) All cluster housing developments shall be designed so that no separate dwelling unit will be constructed on top of another separate dwelling unit. (Ord. of 12-23-96(3), § IX)