(A) Front yard exceptions. The following special provisions shall apply to all R-1-14.4, R-1-12.0, R-1-9.6, R-1-8.4, R-1-7.2, R-2, R-3 and C-P zones:
(1) Key lots shall have a front yard not less than the front yard for the adjoining interior lot. When the front yard on the adjoining interior lot is less than prescribed by this title, the key lot front yard may be the same, but shall in no case be less than 20 feet;
(2) In partially built up blocks, no front yard need be deeper than the average depth of the front yards next thereto on each side, but shall in no case be less than 20 feet. A vacant lot or a lot occupied by a building with a front yard more than 25 feet deep shall be deemed to have a front yard 25 feet deep;
(3) Where the entire block frontage is designed and developed as a unit, the front yard requirements may be varied in accordance with § 17.98.030.
(B) Other special yard requirements. The following requirements shall apply:
(1) Churches, schools, institutions or other similar uses when permitted in an R zone shall be removed at least 20 feet from every boundary line of the property, and no front yard as required in such zone or side yards as required shall be used for play or parking purposes;
(2) Swimming pools shall not be permitted in any required front yard. Pump or filter installation for such swimming pools shall be made not less than ten feet from an adjoining property line except where a five foot high block wall is maintained extending a distance of two feet on each side of such equipment and situated either between such equipment and said property line or on said property line.
(3) Notwithstanding anything contrary stated in this code, except as provided in Chapter 17.86, all lots, which are zoned residential or agricultural and bear a prefix designation on the city’s official zoning map commencing with the letter "R" or "A" and on which dwellings are constructed so as to front on a major or secondary street and highways, as said streets and highways are defined in the city’s General Plan and report and delineated on the city’s General Plan map, shall have a front yard at least 30 feet in depth.
(`78 Code, § 17.64.040.) (Ord. 2934 § 1, 2008; Ord. 2685 § 1, 2003)