In addition to all yard regulations specified in other sections of this Ordinance, the provisions included in subsections (a) to (e) hereof, inclusive, shall be used for interpretation and clarification.
(a) Setback Requirements for Corner Buildings. On a corner lot in any district, the main building and any accessory structures shall be required to have the same setback distance from all street right-of-way lines, as required, for the front yard in the district in which such structures are located.
(b) Visibility at Intersections. On a corner lot in any district, nothing shall be erected, placed, planted, or allowed to grow in such a manner as to materially impede vision between a height of two and one-half (2½) and ten (10) feet above the center line grades of the intersecting streets, in the area bounded by the right-of-way of such corner lots, and a line joining points along the right-of-way twenty-five (25) feet from the point of intersection.
(c) Yard Requirements for Multi-family or Group Dwellings. Group or multi-family dwellings shall be considered as one building for the purpose of determining front, side, and rear yard requirements. The entire group as a unit, shall require one front, one rear, and two side yards as specified for dwellings in the appropriate district.
(d) Additional Yard Requirements for Buffering Purposes. To secure a desirable transition between land zoned for residential purposes and other zoning districts (C- 1 through M-2), it is required that greater yard setbacks be provided on the property that is not zoned for residential purposes along the lot line(s) that abut land zoned for residential purposes. When property that is zoned C-1 through M-2 abuts property that is zoned to permit single, two- or multiple-family residential dwellings, the yard requirements for that yard adjacent to the residential zoned property, shall be increased two times over the normally required yard setback (including any overlay district requirements), up to a maximum of seventy-five (75) feet, and a landscaped bufferyard shall be provided in this area in accordance with Chapter 1189
with special exception to additional requirements of corner lots discussed in Section 1175.03.
(e) Accessory Structures. Accessory structures may not be located closer to a public right-of-way than the principal structure, unless the accessory structure is attached to the principal structure. Accessory structures shall not be located closer than a distance equal to one-half of the height of the accessory structure or three feet, whichever is greater.
(Ord. 05-08. Passed 4-10-08.)