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(a) Minimum Yard Requirements. Nonresidential buildings or uses shall not be located nor conducted closer to any lot line of "R-l", "R-2" or "R-3" District than the distance specified in the following schedule, except as provided in subsection (b) hereof.
Minimum Side or Rear Yard Modification Abutting any "R" District (ft.) | Use |
25 | Off-street parking and loading spaces and access drives for nonresidential uses. |
50 | Churches, schools and public or semipublic buildings. |
60 | Recreation facilities, entertainment facilities, motels, trailers and mobile home parks, all commercial uses and billboards. |
100 | Outside sale or storage of building material or construction equipment, all industrial uses, except those listed herein. |
500 | Auto and metal salvage operations; mineral extraction or processing. |
(b) Landscaping or Screening Provisions. For nonresidential uses abutting "R" Districts the minimum yards may be reduced to fifty percent (50%) of the requirements stated in subsection (B) hereof if landscaping or screening, approved by the Zoning Inspector, is provided.
(Ord. 26-99-0. Passed 8-23-99.)
(a) Institutional, industrial and apartment buildings with a height in excess of the maximum height specified in the respective district for such buildings shall be permitted provided the required front, side and rear yards are increased by one foot for each foot of additional building height above the maximum specified in the respective district.
(b) The height regulations prescribed herein shall not apply to television and radio towers, church spires, belfries, monuments, tanks, water and fire towers, stage towers or scenery lofts, cooling towers, ornamental towers and spires, chimneys, silos and similar structures, elevator bulkheads, smokestacks, conveyors and flagpoles, except where the height of such structures will constitute a hazard to a safe landing and take-off of aircraft at an established airport.
(c) No building shall exceed a maximum height of 100 feet without prior approval of the Planning Commission.
(Ord. 26-99-0. Passed 8-23-99.)
The following applies to all lots of record at the effective date of this Zoning Ordinance.
(a) Any existing lot of record forty feet or wider in districts allowing single family residences as permitted uses may be used for the erection of a single-family dwelling even though its area and width are less than the minimum requirements set forth herein.
(b) On lots of record setbacks for new, altered or expanded residences and their accessory structures shall be determined according to the following:
(1) The minimum side yard setback shall be determined by the proportional reduction of the requirements specified in the district up to a maximum of 50% of the minimum setback stated in the district.
(2) The front and rear setbacks shall be established by the corresponding prevailing setbacks for the front and rear yards on the same side of the block on which the structure is located up to a maximum of 50% of the minimum setback stated in the district.
(c) On existing single-family structures and their accessory structures, an existing wall may be extended parallel to the side yard property line if the following conditions are met:
(1) No buildings on the adjacent lot are within 10 feet of the wall extension.
(2) Extension is no longer than 50% of the length of the wall at the time of the adoption of the Ordinance.
(3) Limited to a minimum setback of three (3) feet in all cases.
(Ord. 26-99-0. Passed 8-23-99.)
Certain architectural features may project into required minimum yard setbacks as follows:
(a) Front, side and rear yards. The following architectural features may project into the minimum yard setback of any front, rear or side yard adjoining a side street:
(1) Cornices, canopies, eaves, or other architectural features may project a distance not exceeding two feet, six inches.
(2) Fire escapes may project a distance not exceeding four feet, six inches.
(3) An uncovered stair, including landings, may project a distance not to exceed six (6) feet. Such stair and landing shall not extend above the entrance floor with the exception of handrailings. Handrailings may extend an additional three (3) feet above the floor level.
(4) Bay windows, balconies, uncovered porches or decks, and chimneys may project a distance not to exceed three (3) feet. These features shall not occupy more than one-third (1/3) the width of the building toward the yard in question.
(b) Interior side yards. The structures or features as listed in (a) above, may project into an interior side yard (those side yards not facing a side street) a distance up to one-fifth (l/5) the required setback distance.
However, such projection shall not exceed three (3) feet. Structures or features which extend into more than one minimum side yard setback are subject to all combined limitations.
(Ord. 26-99-0. Passed 8-23-99.)
(a) Lots having frontage on more shall one street shall provide the required front yard on the principal street and the minimum side yard required in that district, but not less than fifteen feet on the side street.
(b) In the case of lots having frontage on more than one street, accessory structures in that side yard shall meet the prevailing front yard setback on the street on which it is located.
(c) Where a building lot is comprised of more than one lot of record, building setbacks for all interior lot lines shall be as for any property line. However, a building may overlap an interior lot line.
(Ord. 26-99-0. Passed 8-23-99.)
(d) Lot width, area, height, land use intensity, front, side and rear yard regulations for new and existing dwellings and their accessory buildings in any zone other than those with an “R” designation shall be those of the R-3 zone.
(Ord. 44-99-0. Passed 1-24-00.)
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