(a) The height of any main or accessory building shall not exceed sixty feet in a General Business District.
In a General Business District stacks, water tanks, elevator penthouses, bulkheads, skylights, ventilators, air conditioning and temperature control equipment, other mechanical appurtenances relating to the operation of the main or accessory building itself and penthouse enclosures for mechanical appurtenances erected upon or constituted as an integral part of the main or accessory building itself and not used for human occupancy may be erected to a height not to exceed fifteen feet above the finished roof line of the building.
Wireless, broadcasting, receiving and transmitting towers, radio and television antennae (except as provided in subsection (b) hereof), chimneys, flag poles and other like structures may be erected above the height limit specified in subsection (a) hereof, subject to the following constraints:
(1) The height from the base of such structure, or the uppermost point at which the structure is attached to the main or accessory building, to the top of the structure shall not be greater than the horizontal distance from the base of such structure to the nearest adjoining property line.
(2) A variance approved by the Board of Zoning and Building Appeals shall be required for any such structure over thirty-five feet in height if detached from or not attached to the main building, or over fifteen feet in height above the uppermost attachment to the main building.
No wireless, broadcasting, receiving and transmitting tower and no radio or television antennae shall be erected in a front yard. Any wireless, broadcasting, receiving and transmitting tower and any radio or television antennae may be erected in a side yard or in a rear yard only in accordance with the provisions of this section.
Wireless, broadcasting, receiving and transmitting towers, radio and television antennae, chimneys, flag poles and other like structures shall be designed and constructed to withstand windloads in accordance with ANSI (American National Standards Institute) A 58.1. Structural calculations and details for the installation shall be furnished to the Division of Building.
Canopies and other similar structures at service stations shall not exceed twenty feet in height above finished grade.
(Ord. 93-7. Passed 5-3-93.)
(b) A direct broadcast satellite receiving station may be placed on the roof of a main or accessory building provided all of the following conditions are satisfied:
(1) The receiving station is not linked or otherwise connected to receivers which are not located within the same premises as the antenna;.
(2) The highest point of the satellite receiving dish shall not exceed three feet greater than the dimension of the dish above the plane upon which it is mounted which shall include the height of any base upon which the dish is mounted;
(3) The satellite receiving dish shall not exceed nine feet in dimension;
(4) The satellite receiving dish shall be constructed and anchored in such a manner as to withstand wind loads in accordance with ANSI (American National Standards Institute) A 58.1. Structural calculations, including calculations certifying to the capability of the roof to support the dish and the base, and details for the installation shall be furnished to the Division of Building;
(5) The satellite receiving dish shall be affixed in a permanent fashion such that it would only be removable for repair or replacement;
(6) The dish shall not be placed closer than twenty feet from any roof edge;
(7) Only one such station shall be permitted at any one time on the same building;
(8) No lettering, numerals, symbols, pictorial signs or designs exceeding one-half inch in any dimension shall be permitted on any surface.
(Ord. 95-71. Passed 10-16-95.)