(a) Certain architectural features may project into required setbacks or courts as follows:
(1) Front yards, side street, side yards and rear yards. Into any required front, corner side or rear setback, cornices, canopies, eaves or other architectural features may project a distance not exceeding two (2) feet, six (6) inches. Fire escapes may project a distance not exceeding four (4) feet, six (6) inches. An uncovered stair or ramp and a necessary landing may project a distance not to exceed six (6) feet, provided that such stair or ramp and landing shall not extend above the entrance floor of the building, except for a railing not exceeding three (3) feet in height. Bay windows, balconies and chimneys may project a distance not exceeding three (3) feet, provided that such features do not occupy, in the aggregate, more than one-third (1/3) of the length of the building wall on which they are located.
(2) Interior side yards. The features referred to in subparagraph (1) hereof may project into any required side setback adjoining any interior side lot line as specified therein, but shall be at least five (5) feet from the side lot line in any case.
(b) Fences. Fences, walls and various types of landscaping may be located in required setbacks as follows:
(1) Three (3) feet high. If not exceeding at any point three (3) feet in height above the elevation of the surface of the ground at such point, fences, walls and other types of landscaping may be located in any yard.
(2) Six (6) feet high (or less). If fences, walls or hedges exceed three (3) feet but do not exceed at any point six (6) feet in height above the elevation of the surface of the ground at such point, they may be located in any required rear or side setback, provided that on a corner lot, abutting in the rear the side lot line of another lot in an “R” District, no such fence, wall or hedge shall be constructed or placed along the common lot closer to the side lot line than the depth of the front yard of the lot fronting the side street.
(3) Maximum height. No fence shall exceed six (6) feet in any “R” District.
(4) Wooden or solid fence orientation. All wooden or solid-type fences shall be erected so that any posts and supports thereof face inward toward the residence of the property upon which the fence is constructed, that is, that the solid wood surface or other solid surface shall face outward away from the premises upon which the fence is erected.
(Ord. 2010-059. Passed 3-7-11.)