No building shall be erected or placed upon premises within the following distances from the following parks and parkways: Riverway, from Fenway to Huntington Avenue, twenty (20') feet; Jamaicaway, from Huntington Avenue to Perkins Street, twenty (20') feet; Jamaicaway, from Perkins Street to Prince Street, twenty-five (25') feet; Arborway, from Prince Street to Washington Street, twenty-five (25') feet; Arborway, north side, from Washington Street to Franklin Park, twenty-five (25') feet; Arborway, south side, from Washington Street to Franklin Park, ten (10') feet; Olmsted Park along the northwesterly boundary, from Chestnut Street to Francis Parkman Drive, twenty (20') feet; Park Drive on the Riverway, from Brookline Avenue to Boston and Albany Railroad, twenty (20') feet; Park Drive on the Riverway, from Boston and Albany Railroad to Beacon Street, fifteen (15') feet; Commonwealth Avenue, from Arlington Street to Beacon Street, twenty (20') feet; the Fens, twenty (20') feet (excepting Charlesgate East from Boylston Street to the Charles River, and Charlesgate West from Boston and Albany Railroad to the Charles River, and Boylston Street, south side, from Hemenway Street to Fenway); Charlesgate East from Boylston Street to Ipswich Street, ten (10') feet; and Bolyston Street, south side, from Hemenway Street to Fenway, fifteen (15') feet; provided that steps, windows, porticos, and other usual projections appurtenant to the front wall of a building shall be allowed where there is a reserved space; that no projections in the nature of a bay window, corner bay, circular front, or octagon front, with the foundation wall sustaining the same (such foundation wall being a projection of the front wall), shall be allowed (excepting oriel windows above the first story on a street corner), unless any horizontal sections of such projections would fall within the external lines of trapezoids, the sum of whose bases upon the rear line of the aforesaid space does not exceed seven-tenths (.7) of the whole front of the building, and the base of any one of which trapezoids does not exceed eighteen (18') feet, and whose side lines make an angle of forty-five (45°) degrees with the base; and each house in a block shall be considered a separate building within the meaning of this section; provided, however, that the provisions hereof shall not apply to the lot of land on Ipswich Street bounded by and making the northwest corner of Charlesgate West and Boylston Street.
(Ord. 1949 c. 1; Ord. 1953 c. 6 § 2; Rev. Ord. 1981 c. 19 § 12; CBC 1975 Ord. T7 § 111)