(A) Application of regulation to the uses or a more restricted district.
(1) Whenever the specific district regulations pertaining to one district permits the uses of a more restricted district, such uses shall be subject to the conditions as set forth in the regulations of the more restricted district unless otherwise specified.
(2) It is intended that these regulations be interpreted as not permitting a dwelling unit to be located on the same lot with or within a structure used or intended to be used primarily for nonresidential purposes.
(Prior Code, § 18-65)
(1) An open space or lot area required for an existing building or structure shall not be counted as open space for any other building or structure.
(2) Open eaves, cornices, windowsills, and belt courses may project into any required yard a distance not to exceed two feet. Open, uncovered porches or open fire escapes may project into a front or rear yard a distance not to exceed five feet. Fences, walls, or hedges in residential districts may be erected in any required yard or along the edge of any yard provided that no fence, wall, or hedge located in front of the front building line shall exceed four feet in height, and no other wall or fence shall exceed seven feet in height.
(3) Where the dedicated street right-of-way is less than 50 feet, the front yard depth shall be determined by measuring 50 feet back from the center line of the street easement.
(4) No dwelling shall be erected on a lot which does not abut on at least one street at least 50 feet in width for at least 35 feet. A street shall form the direct and primary means of ingress and egress for all dwelling units. Alleys, where they exist, shall form only a secondary means of ingress and egress. A garage apartment may be built to the rear of a main dwelling if there is compliance with all other provisions of this subchapter. Accessory buildings which are not a part of the main building may be built in the rear yard but shall not cover more than 30% of the rear yard.
(5) No minimum lot sizes and open spaces are prescribed for commercial and industrial uses. It is the intent of this subchapter that lots of sufficient size be used by any business or industry to provide adequate parking and loading space required of operation of the enterprise.
(6) On any corner lot on which a front and side yard is required, no wall, fence, sign, structure, or any plant growth which obstructs sight lines at elevations between two feet, six inches and six feet above any portion of the crown of the adjacent roadway shall be maintained in a triangle, formed by measuring from the point of intersection of the front and exterior side lot lines a distance of 25 feet along the front and side lot lines and connecting the points so established to form a right triangle on the area of the lot adjacent to the street intersection.
(7) An attached or detached private garage which faces on a street shall not be located closer than 25 feet to the street easement line.
(8) No accessory building shall be constructed upon a lot until the construction of the main building has been actually commenced, and no accessory building shall be used unless the main building on the lot is also being used.
(9) Whenever one or more residential, institutional, commercial, or industrial buildings are proposed to be located in a cluster or grouping which has a different arrangement, orientation, or other site planning variation from that of other buildings, structures, or uses in the area or on adjacent properties, the architectural design, location, orientation, service, and parking areas of such buildings shall be planned so as not to adversely affect the use of adjacent or other properties in the area as determined by the Planning Commission.
(Prior Code, § 18-66)
(C) Height. The following requirements are intended to provide exceptions or qualify and supplement, as the case may be, the specific district regulations set forth herein.
(1) In measuring heights, a habitable basement or attic shall be counted as a story. A story in a sloping roof, the area of which story (at a height of four feet above the floor) does not exceed two thirds of the floor area of the story immediately below it and which does not contain an independent apartment, shall be conducted as a half story.
(2) Chimneys, elevators, poles, spires, tanks, towers, and other projections not used for human occupancy may extend above the height limit.
(3) Churches, schools, hospitals, sanitariums, and other public and semi-public buildings may exceed the height limitation of the district of the minimum depth of rear yards and the minimum width of the side yards by which the height of such public or semi-public structure exceeds the prescribed height limit.
(Prior Code, § 18-67)
(D) Group housing projects. In the case of a housing project consisting of a group of two or more buildings to be constructed on a plot of ground of at least two acres not subdivided into the customary streets and lots and which will not be so subdivided where the existing or contemplated street and lot layout make it impracticable to apply the requirements of this subchapter to the individual buildings in such housing project, the application of such requirements to such housing project may be changed by the Planning Commission in a manner that will be in harmony with character of the neighborhood and will ensure a density of land use on higher and standard of open space at least as high as required by this subchapter in the district in which the proposed project is to be located. In no case shall a use or building height or density or population be permitted which is less than the requirement of the district in which the housing project is to be located.
(Prior Code, § 18-68)
(E) Storage and parking of trailers and commercial vehicles. Commercial vehicles and trailers of all types (including travel, camping, and hauling and mobile homes) shall not be parked or stored on any lot occupied by a dwelling or on any lot in the residential district except in accordance with the following provisions.
(1) No more than one commercial vehicle, which does not exceed one and one-half tons rated capacity, per family living on the premises shall be permitted; in no case shall a commercial vehicle used for hauling explosives, gasoline, or liquefied petroleum products be permitted.
(2) Not more than one camping or travel trailer or hauling trailer per family living on the premises shall be permitted, and said trailer shall not exceed 24 feet in length or eight feet in width and provided that said trailer shall not be parked or stored for more than 48 hours unless it is located behind the front yard building line. A camping or travel trailer shall not be occupied either temporarily or permanently while it is parked or stored in any area within the incorporated limits except in a trailer court authorized under the ordinances of the town.
(3) A mobile home shall be parked or stored only in a trailer court which is in conformity with the ordinances of the town.
(Prior Code, § 18-69)
(F) Architectural design or accessory buildings and fences. The architectural design and materials used for the construction of accessory buildings and fences shall harmonize with the main building to which said building or fence is accessory.
(Prior Code, § 18-70)
(G) Animals. Animals in any district shall be kept only in accordance with the ordinances of the town.
(Prior Code, § 18-71)
(H) Storage of liquified petroleum gases. The use of land or buildings for the commercial wholesale or retail storage of liquefied petroleum gases shall be in accordance with the ordinances of the town and the regulations of the liquefied petroleum gas administration of the state.
(Prior Code, § 18-72)