5-4-10-10: OPEN SPACE AND AMENITIES:

   A.   For residential developments five acres or larger that do not include parks as shown on the Middleton Transportation, Schools & Recreation Map, developers shall include five percent (5%) open space in a concentrated location(s), agreed to with the City, that is aesthetically pleasing and sufficiently large to accommodate group and/or recreational activities.

   B.   Open Space is defined as areas that are accessible to all residents and used for social gathering and/or passive or active recreation. Such areas may include parks, playgrounds, sport courts, plazas, community center/clubhouse, swimming pool, pocket parks, picnic areas, lakes and/or ponds, water features, pathways that are 8' or wider located within a public access easement or dedicated to the City, and large landscaped common lots, including detention pond areas that are landscaped with sod and over 10,000 sf in size. Open space does not include small landscaped strips, common lots along roadways, or landscape buffers unless the landscape buffer is sized above minimum standards and contains a pathway at least eight (8) feet wide.

   C.   Single family residential developments that include more than seventy five (75) dwelling units and multi-family subdivisions containing more than seventy five (75) dwelling units shall provide one or more amenities in the form of a park with play equipment, picnic area with tables and shade structure, one or more sport courts, community center/club house, swimming pool, recreational pond/lake, or other similar amenity.

(Ord. 609, 7-3-2018; amd. Ord. 659, 1-19-2022)