No public garage, garage repair shop or filling station shall be erected or established which has any part of its proposed building or structure within 100 feet of the building structure of a public or parochial school, church, playground, public library, hospital or children's home now existing or for which a building permit has been issued or is in effect, except as follows:
(a) Nothing in this section shall be construed to permit any such institution now located in any district zoned for business, by acquiring premises therein or erecting additional buildings thereon to shorten the 100-foot limit between such institutional structure heretofore erected and such proposed garage or filling station structure as defined by this Zoning Code.
(b) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the erection or maintenance of automobile sales or display rooms or buildings with automobile service stations connected thereto. Such automobile service stations connected to buildings, or automobile sales or display rooms, shall have no vehicle entrance located upon the same street with and within 300 feet of any part of the building structure of any public or parochial school, playground, public library, church, hospital or children's home heretofore erected. Distance shall be measured by “crow fly” or straight-line measurement.
(c) All entrances and exits of public garages shall have an unobstructed width of not less than twenty feet for a distance of not less than twelve feet from a street.
(d) A public garage or garage repair shop shall not have an opening in a wall or roof facing adjacent property that is located in a residential or apartment district unless such opening is located on a public street or highway.
(Ord. C79-74. Passed 1-20-75.)