(A) Height regulations.
(1) All structures in the R-1 Suburban Residential District shall be limited to two stories plus roof or 25 feet in height. Structures in all other districts shall not exceed 35 feet in height above ground level unless approved by the City Commission.
(2) The Commission may authorize a variance to the height regulations in any district if:
(a) All front, side and rear yard depths of buildings are increased one foot for each additional foot of height; or
(b) The structure is among or similar to any of the following: television and radio towers, church spires, belfries, monuments, tanks, water towers, grain elevators, stage towers and scenery lofts, cooling towers, ornamental towers and spires, chimneys, elevator bulkheads, smokestacks, conveyers, flagpoles, silos, air conditioning and heating units and windmills.
(3) There is no maximum height to which the Board is limited in granting the variances.
(B) Solar access. Solar energy systems shall be permitted by the City Commission in all districts provided that three findings have been satisfied:
(1) The proposed collector will be unshaded by existing and/or planned structures or by existing vegetation between the hours of 9:00 a.m. and 3:00 p.m. on December 21.
(2) The solar skyspace needed for efficient operation of the collector will not adversely restrict the reasonable economic use of the neighboring property to the south.
(3) The proposed solar energy system will provide at least 50% of the annual space heating and/or air conditioning needs of the building, or at least 90% of the domestic hot water heating needs of the building when the solar index registers at least 70.
(1988 Code, § 11.13) (Ord. 30, passed 10-11-1994)