(a) Rear yards may be reduced by three inches (3 in.) from the required least depth for each foot by which a lot at the time of enactment of this Code is less than one hundred feet (100 ft.) deep, in the case of a building not higher than two and one-half (2-1/2) stories, and in case the owner of record does not own adjoining property to the rear. However, no required rear yard shall be less than ten feet (10 ft.) deep.
(b) Rear yards may be measured to the center line of adjoining alleys but in no case shall a building or structure be erected within ten feet ( 10 ft.) of such an alley.
(c) Structures or projections into rear yards may be permitted as follows: fences, planting or walls not over six feet (6 ft.) above the average natural grade; fire escapes, six feet (6 ft.); bays and balconies, not more than three feet (3 ft.) provided these projections are entirely within planes drawn from either main corner of the rear wall, making an interior angle of twenty-two and one half (22-1/2) degrees in the horizontal plane with the rear wall. The sum of the lengths of such projections shall not exceed one-half ( 1/2) of the width of the rear wall; also, chimneys, flues, belt courses, leaders, sills, pilasters, lintels, ornamental features, cornices, eaves, gutters and the like into or over a required rear yard not more than one and one-half feet (1-1/2 ft.).
(Ord. 7139-99. Passed 7-6-99.)