No building shall be erected or placed upon premises within twenty (20') feet from the exterior line of parks and parkways, on the Dorchesterway and Strandway, except from Preble Street to Old Harbor Street and except from P Street to Farragut Road; provided, that steps, windows, porticos and other usual projections appurtenant to the front wall of a building are to be allowed in this reserved space of twenty (20') feet, subject to the following limitations, viz.: First, that no projections of any kind (other than doorsteps and balustrades connected therewith, and also piazzas projecting not more than eight (8') feet) shall extend more than five (5') feet from the rear line of the aforesaid space; second, 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), will 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 limitation.
(Ord. 1939 c. 3; Ord. 1949 c. 2; Rev. Ord. 1961 c. 19 § 13; CBC 1975 Ord. T7 § 112)
Cross-reference:
St. 1938 c. 479 (Boston Building Code)
St. 1938 c. 479 (Boston Building Code)