7-2-3: WOODEN STRUCTURES:
   A.   Side Restrictions:
      1.   No wooden structures shall hereafter be built within the fire limits as given herein, or as they may hereafter be established, except temporary one-story buildings for the use of builders during the construction of the fireproof structure, wooden fences not over six feet (6') high, piazzas or balconies not exceeding ten feet (10') in width or extending more than three feet (3') above the second story floor beams, bay windows when covered with incombustible material, small outhouses not exceeding one hundred fifty feet (150') in area nor eight feet (8') in height. (1970 Code §345; 1990 Code)
      2.   No wooden building or structure hereafter erected or altered outside the fire limits shall exceed two and one-half (21/2) stories or thirty feet (30') in height.
   B.   Area Restrictions: No wooden frame building hereafter erected for any occupancy other than grain elevators, coal elevators and pockets, and ice houses, shall cover a ground area exceeding the following:
One story building, seven thousand five hundred feet (7,500').
Two (2) story buildings or two and one-half (21/2) story buildings, five thousand (5,000) square feet.
   C.   Lot Lines: In no case shall a wood frame building be erected within five feet (5') of the side or rear lot line, nor within ten feet (10') of another building, unless the space between the studs on each side be filled solidly with not less than three and one-half inches (31/2") of masonry or plain concrete or other equivalent incombustible material.
   D.   Classifications: Buildings with wood frame work clad with sheet metal, covered with stucco or veneered with brick, shall be classed as wood frame buildings. (1970 Code §345)