A. Purpose. Supplementary district regulations are intended to take care of miscellaneous problems related to uses or conditions which occur in more than one zoning district.
B. Exceptions to Height Regulations. The height limitations contained in the district regulations do not apply to spires, belfries, cupolas, antennas, water tanks, ventilators, chimneys, or other appurtenances usually required to be placed above the roof level and not intended for human occupancy.
C. Structures to Have Access. Every principal building hereafter erected or moved shall be on a lot adjacent to a public street, or with access to an approved private street other than an alley, and all structures shall be so located on lots as to provide required off-street parking and safe and convenient access for servicing and fire protection.
D. Parking, Storage, or Use of Major Recreational Equipment. For purposes of these regulations, the term "major recreational equipment" includes snowmobiles and snowmobile trailers, boats and boat trailers, travel trailers, pickup camper tops (designed to be mounted on automotive vehicles), motorized dwellings, tent trailers, and the like, and cases or boxes used for transporting recreational equipment, whether occupied by such equipment or not. No major recreational equipment may be parked or stored in any required front yard, other than the driveway; provided, however, that such equipment may be parked anywhere on residential premises not to exceed seventytwo hours during loading or unloading.
Two currently licensed recreational vehicles, per house, are allowed to be parked in the side yard if the recreational vehicle remains at least five feet from the side lot line.
No such equipment shall be used for living, sleeping or housekeeping purposes when parked or stored on a residential lot for longer than thirty days or in any location not approved for such use.
E. Parking and Storage of Certain Vehicles. No more than one automotive vehicle of any kind or type without current license plates may be parked or stored on any residentially zoned property other than in completed enclosed buildings.
F. Fire Hazards. Any activity involving the use or storage of flammable or explosive materials must be entirely enclosed with protective fencing not less than six feet in height and be protected by adequate firefighting and fire prevention equipment and by such safety devices as are normally used in the handling of any such material. The activities must be set back not less than one hundred feet from all lot lines.
G. Accessory Building. An accessory building is a .subordinate building which is located on the lot of the main building and the use of which is clearly incidental to the use of the main building.
H. Outdoor Lighting. Outdoor lighting of trees, bushes, fountains, swimming pools, or grounds of residences shall not illuminate or be reflected upon any adjacent property.
I. Outside Storage, Enclosure Required. All salvage dealers, or other persons accumulating, depositing or storing material within Chinook when the accumulating, depositing or storing thereof shall be without a building or not within a building, either now stored, deposited or accumulated or hereafter so deposited, stored or accumulated, shall fence surrounding salvage materials with a solid fence at least six feet high, sufficient to enclose the salvaged materials from public view from outside the enclosure.
J. Corner Lots. When a lot faces more than one street and front yard setbacks have been established or in all probability will be established on both streets, corner lot setbacks shall be at least as great as established for each street.
K. Protection of Street Rights-of-Way. No building permit shall be issued or use proposed in any street right-of-way or any proposed street right-of-way in Chinook.
L. Fences, Walls, Hedges and Boulevards.
1. Fences, walls and hedges in Class A residential districts and Class B residential districts shall conform to the following requirements:
a. Corner Lots.
i. All fences, walls and hedges erected and to be located within interior side yards and rear yards may not exceed eight feet in height.
ii. All fences, walls and hedges erected and to be located within front yard or the area between the front yard and sidewalks may not exceed four feet in height. However, all fences, walls and hedges erected and to be located within the triangular area formed by the intersecting street lines and a straight line joining such street lines at points which are thirty feet distant from the point of intersection measured along said street lines shall not exceed two feet in height, subject, however, to the exception that chain link fences with no visual obstructions may be erected in said area, but may not exceed four feet in height.
iii. All fences, walls, and hedges erected and to be located between the exterior side yard and the sidewalk may not exceed four feet in height. However, all fences, walls and hedges erected and to be located within the triangular area formed by the intersection of the street line and the alley line, and a straight line joining said street line and alley line at points which are twelve feet in distance from the point of intersection measured along said street line and alley line shall not exceed two feet in height, subject however, to the exception that chain link fences with no visual obstructions may be erected in said area, but may not exceed four feet in height.
iv. All fences, walls and hedges erected and to be located within the exterior side yard may not exceed six feet in height. However, all fences, walls and hedges erected and to be located within the triangular area formed by the intersecting street lines and a straight line joining such street lines at points which are thirty feet distant from the point of intersection measured along the street lines shall riot exceed two feet in height.
v. All fences, walls and hedges erected and to be located between the exterior side yard and the sidewalk may not exceed four feet in height.
However, all fences, walls and hedges erected and to be located within the triangular area formed by the intersection of the street line and the alley line, and a straight line joining the street line and alley line at points which are twelve feet in distance from the point of intersection measured along the street line and alley line shall not exceed two feet in height.
b. Interior Lots.
i. All fences, walls and hedges to be erected and located within side yards or rear yards may not exceed eight feet in height.
ii. All fences, walls and hedges located in front yards and the area between the front yard and sidewalk may not exceed four feet in height.
2. Fences, walls and hedges in the business district may be located on lot lines provided such fences, walls and hedges do not exceed eight feet in height. However, no fences, walls and hedges shall exceed four feet in any front yard as defined in this title.
3. Fences, walls and hedges obstructing utility easements will be removed and may be replaced at property owner's expense if necessary to allow access.
4. No barbed wire or other sharp fencing material shall be erected and maintained at a height of less than seven feet and no electrically charged fence shall be erected or maintained in any district created by this title.
5. Landscaping of boulevards where there are no sidewalks within Class A residential districts and Class B residential districts, shall conform to the following requirements:
a. In those areas where there are no sidewalks, the following landscaping of boulevards will be allowed on boulevards by the adjoining lot owner:
i. Trees;
ii. Grass;
iii. Shrubs;
iv. Landscaping rocks not to exceed two feet in height.
b. No landscaping shall be allowed on corner lots which do not conform to the height requirements of subsection (L)(1)(a) and subsection Q of this section.
6. All property owners desiring to erect fences, walls or plant hedges on their property, or landscape adjoining city boulevards where there are no sidewalks, shall first obtain a permit from the city building inspector. The cost of the permit shall be fifteen dollars. Failure to obtain a permit prior to erecting a fence, wall or planting a hedge, or landscaping adjoining city boulevards where there are no sidewalks, shall result in a fine of twentyfive dollars.
Each person is guilty of a separate offense for each day and every day during which the party fails to obtain the required permit and such person shall be fined accordingly.
M. Swimming Pools. No public or private swimming pool in any district shall be located in any required front yard; however, if not more than six feet in height, such use may be located in any required side or rear yard. In addition, all swimming pools shall be enclosed in an area with a fence or wall not less than six feet in height and no opening therein, other than doors or gates, larger than four inches in any, direction. A structure of any type may be used as part of such enclosure. All gates and doors opening through such enclosure shall be kept equipped with a self-closing and self-latching device for keeping the gate or door securely closed at all times when not in actual use, except that the door of any dwelling which forms a part of the enclosure for private residential pools need not be so equipped. The city council may make modifications in individual cases, upon a showing of good cause with respect to the height, nature or location of the fence, wall, gates or latches, or the necessity thereof, provided the protection as sought hereunder is not reduced thereby.
N. Landscaping. Not less than seventyfive percent of all yards and side yards on abutting streets or avenues shall be landscaped.
O. Multifamily Dwellings. Each unit in a multifamily dwelling shall have a separate entrance from the ground on which the structure is erected. Any structure of two, three or four dwelling units which does not provide this shall be classified as an apartment house.
P. Stop Order. Whenever any building work is being done contrary to the provision of this title, the building inspector shall order the work stopped by notice in writing served on any person engaged in doing or causing such work to be done and any such person shall forthwith stop such work until authorized by the building inspector or city council.
Q. Obstruction of View. On any corner lot in which a front yard is required by this title, no wall, fence or other structure shall be erected and no hedge, shrub, tree or other growth exceeding two feet above the street grade shall be maintained within the triangular area formed by the intersecting street lines and a straight line joining said street lines at points which are thirty feet distant from the point of intersection measured along said street lines.
(Ord. 481 § 1, 1999; Ord. 454 § 1, 1994; Ord. 441 Art. IV.§ 4, 1992).