(a) Along any district boundary line, any abutting side yard on a lot in the less restricted district shall have a least width equal to that required in the more restricted district. Where a lot in any industrial or business district abuts a lot in a residential district, the side yard shall be increased by three feet (3 ft.) for each story that the building proposed on such lot exceeds the height limit of such residential district.
(b) Side yards shall be increased in width by two inches (2 in.) for each foot by which the length of the side wall of the building, adjacent to the side yard, exceeds forty feet (40 ft.) in any residential district, or fifty feet (50 ft.) in any R-2 District.
(c) Side yards may be reduced by three inches (3 in.) from the otherwise required least width of each side yard for each foot by which a lot of record at the time of enactment of this Code is narrower than the lot width specified for the district in which the lot is located, in the case of buildings not higher than two and one-half (2-1/2) stories, and in case the owner of record does not own any adjoining property. However, and irrespective of the provisions of subsection (f)(1) hereof, no side yard shall be narrower at any point than three feet (3 ft.) on one side and seven feet (7 ft.) on the other side except where an attached garage is provided each side yard may be three feet (3 ft.).
(d) Side yards may be measured to the center line of adjoining alleys, but in no case shall a building or structure for which a side yard is required be erected within five feet (5 ft.) of such alley.
(e) On a corner lot the least width of a side yard along the side street lot line shall be equal to ten percent (10%) of the average width of the lot or five feet (5 ft.), whichever is greater.
No part of any accessory building shall be nearer a side street lot line than the least depth of any front yard required along such side street.
(f) Structures or projections into side yards may be permitted as follows: fences, planting or walls not over five feet (5 ft.) above the average natural grade; fire escapes, three feet (3 ft.) from the side lot line; bays and balconies not more than three feet (3 ft.) from the building provided these projections are entirely within planes drawn from either main corner of the side wall, making an interior angle of twenty-two and one-half (22-1/2) degrees in the horizontal plane with the side wall. The sum of the lengths of such projection shall not exceed one-third (1/3) of the length of the wall of the main building.
(l) Chimneys, flues, belt courses, leaders, sills, pilasters and lintels, ornamental features, cornices, eaves, gutters and the like into or over a required side yard not more than one and one-half feet (l-l/2 ft.).
(2) Terraces, steps, uncovered porches, stoops or similar features, not higher than the elevation of the ground story of the building and three feet (3 ft.) distant from a side lot line.
(Ord. 7139-99. Passed 7-6-99.)