The required minimum area and yard regulations, where indicated, are further defined as follows:
(a) The minimum area requirements of Suburban "5" and "1" Districts may be less under the following circumstances: if a plan for a new subdivision is submitted and adequate open spaces and municipal facilities, utilities and services are made available in a manner satisfactory to the Planning Commission, who may initiate any rezoning of the affected area which in their judgment is necessary or desirable.
(b) The front yard shall be not less than forty feet unless otherwise shown on the Zone Map, except it shall be not less than sixty feet on all lots abutting Lake Shore, Stevens and Lakeland Boulevards, Vine Street and Erie Road, and on all other proposed or existing streets, highways, thoroughfares with right-of-way width of seventy feet or more.
(c) The minimum lot area required for each dwelling unit of a single-family dwelling, two-family dwelling, group house or apartment varies in each residential district in accordance with the schedule.
(d) Side yards for group houses and apartments are established for "small scale development", comprised of one building, and for "large scale development" comprising two or more buildings not subdivided into the usual streets and lots.
For the purpose of determining side yards, the longitudinal wall of the building containing the main entrance, shall be known as the "front wall", the opposite walls shall be known as the "rear wall". Other walls, which do not contain all the windows of a habitable room shall be known as "end walls".
(1) Small scale development. The minimum distance from a side lot line to the front or rear wall shall not be less than twenty-five feet and to an end wall, not less than ten feet, for a one-story multi-family building, and increased five feet for each additional story.
(2) Large scale development. The minimum distance between front walls, between front and rear walls or between rear walls shall not be less than fifty feet for a one-story multi-family building. The minimum distance between end walls shall be not less than twenty feet for a one-story building, the minimum distance between an end wall and front wall or rear wall shall be not less than thirty feet for a one-story building; in each of the above relations the distance shall be increased five feet for each additional story. The minimum distance from building to front, side and rear lot lines shall be not less than required for small scale developments in subsection (d)(1) hereof.
(Ord. 1966-79. Passed 3-22-66; Ord. 1982-130. Passed 7-13-82.)