A. A courtyard apartment building is a group of dwelling units arranged to share one or more common courtyards, where the individual units are townhouses or rowhouses, flats, or flats located over or under flats or townhouses. A courtyard apartment building shall be placed on a site as set forth in Table 6-18.
Building Placement. |  | |
Front build-to-line: The front façade of the building shall be placed 10 feet from the back of the sidewalk. | A | |
A porch, stoop or dooryard may encroach up to 8 feet into the resulting front setback. | B | |
Side setbacks: 5 feet on each side. | C | |
Rear setback: 5 feet from the alley. | D | |
Building Size and Massing. | ||
Building height: One, two or three stories. | E | |
Parking. | ||
Surface or ground-level garage parking shall be a minimum at 37 feet behind the back of the sidewalk. | F | |
Courtyards. | ||
A central courtyard and/or partial, multiple, separated or interconnected courtyards of a cumulative size of at least 15 percent of the total lot area shall be provided. Where multiple courtyards are provided, at least two of the courtyards shall have a minimum courtyard dimension of 40 feet when the long axis of the courtyard is oriented East-West, and 30 feet for a North-South orientation. | G | |
B. Frontage types shall be porch and fence, stoop, or dooryard. Arcades and galleries are allowed within courtyards, but shall not encroach into the required minimum width of a courtyard.
C. Balconies, bay windows, chimneys, cantilevered rooms, and eaves may encroach into required setbacks as allowed by applicable building code provisions.
D. Stoops up to 3 feet in height and dooryards up to 2 feet in height may be placed above subterranean parking, provided that they are appropriately landscaped and scaled to the street and building.
E. The main entrance to each ground floor dwelling unit shall be directly from a common courtyard or the street. Access to second-story dwellings shall be through an open or roofed stair. Elevator access may be provided between a garage and podium only.
F. On-site parking may be in an underground garage, surface parking, tuck-under parking, or above-ground garage, or a combination of any of the above. Dwellings may have direct or indirect access to their parking stalls, or direct access to stalls enclosed within the garage. Parking entrances to subterranean garages and/or driveways shall be located as close as possible to the side or rear or each lot.
G. In 40-foot wide courtyards, frontages and architectural projections are permitted on two sides of the courtyard. In 30-foot wide courtyards, they are permitted on one side.
H. Private patios may be provided at side yards, rear yards and courtyards.
I. When multiple courtyards are provided, the courtyards shall be connected to each other and to the public way by passages, which may be open or covered by upper floors.
(Ord. 2358 §22)