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(A) Front yard modifications for existing building alignment. When appropriate, the Zoning Administrator may increase or decrease the depth of the required front yard for any principal residential structure so that such front yard will approximate the average depth of the existing front yards of the existing dwellings on adjoining lots on each side, or if there be no such adjoining dwellings, shall approximate the average depth of the front yards of the nearest dwellings on the same side of the street within 200 feet.
(B) Front yard modifications through lots. In the case of through lots, front yards shall be provided on all frontages, except where one of the front yards of a through lot abuts an expressway or freeway as determined by the Master Highway Plan then the requirement for such front yard shall be 20 feet.
(C) Front yard modifications for corner lots. In the case of corner lots with more than 2 frontages, the Zoning Administrator shall determine the front yard requirements subject to § 1-19-4.610 of this Code and the following additional limitations.
(1) At least 2 front yards shall be provided having the full depth required generally in the district.
(2) No other front yard on such lot shall have less than half the full depth required generally in the district.
(Ord. 77-1-78, § 40-81, 1-24-1977; Ord. 07-07-447, 3-20-2007; Ord. 08-26-502, 10-14-2008; Ord. 14-23-678, 11-13-2014)
(A) Side yard and rear yard width may be varied where the wall of a building is not parallel with the side or rear lot line or is broken or otherwise irregular. In such case the average width of the yard will be no less than the generally required minimum width; provided, that such yard will not be narrower at any point than one-half the normally required setback.
(B) When the side lines of a lot coverage so as to form a rear lot line of less than 10 feet or a point in the rear, the rear lot line is that line parallel to the front lot line and measuring 10 feet in length between the 2 side lot lines. The depth of the rear yard is measured from such 10 foot line to the nearest part of the principal building.
(C) In the case of corner lots, there shall be no required rear yard.
(Ord. 77-1-78, § 40-82, 1-24-1977; Ord. 08-26-502, 10-14-2008; Ord. 14-23-678, 11-13-2014)
(A) Bay windows, chimneys, stoops, balconies, eaves and leaders will not project more than 4 feet into any required yard.
(B) Open/unenclosed porches or uncovered decks will not project more than 4 feet into any front or side yard and may project into the rear yard up to one-half the distance of the rear yard requirement. Decks may not be constructed in such a manner so that one deck is directly above another deck.
(C) Fences are exempt from yard requirements.
(Ord. 77-1-78, § 40-83, 1-24-1977; Ord. 85-44-376, 12-3-1985; Ord. 08-26-502, 10-14-2008; Ord. 14-23-678, 11-13-2014)
The building height limitations of this chapter do not apply to:
(A) Penthouses or roof structures for housing stairways, tanks, elevators, ventilating fans or similar equipment required to operate and maintain the building, fire or parapet walls, steeples, flag poles, and silos;
(B) Smoke stacks, masts, water tanks, monuments. Bulkheads, monitors and scenery lofts, fire towers, hose towers, cooling towers, grain elevators, gas holders or other structures where the manufacturing process requires a greater height, radio or television towers and essential services. Any such structure which exceeds the maximum height limit otherwise permitted in the district, the distance from its front, side and rear lot lines shall be no less than the maximum vertical height of such structures;
(C) Churches, schools, institutional buildings, public utility buildings and structures provided that for each 3 feet by which the height of such structure exceeds the maximum height generally permitted for structures in the district, the required side and rear yards measurements will be increased by an additional foot.
(Ord. 77-1-78, § 40-84, 1-24-1977; Ord. 08-26-502, 10-14-2008; Ord. 14-23-678, 11-13-2014)
Sites to be used for the preservation of historic structures may be less than the minimum lot size for the district, provided:
(A) The site is eligible for or has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places;
(B) It is owned and operated by a private not- for-profit corporation;
(C) The site will not be used for human habitation nor generate sewage effluent unless said site is served by community sewerage facilities or contains at least 40,000 square feet and said facilities meet the approval of the Health Department;
(D) The owner of the site grant an easement in perpetuity to the county or the Maryland Historic Trust, or other governmental body empowered to accept such easement restricting further development of the site for nonhistoric preservation purposes.
(Ord. 77-1-78, § 40-85, 1-24-1978; Ord. 08-26-502, 10-14-2008; Ord. 14-23-678, 11-13-2014)
DIVISION 2. PARKING AND LOADING
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