§ 155.57 HEIGHT RESTRICTIONS.

   The following requirements are intended to provide exceptions or qualify and supplement, as the case may be, the specific district regulations set forth in §§ 155.30 through 155.39.

   (A)   In measuring heights, a habitable basement or attic shall be counted as a half story.

   (B)   The following structures or parts thereof are hereby exempt from the height limitations set forth in the zone districts:

      (1)   Agricultural buildings: barns, silos, windmills; but not including dwellings;

      (2)   Chimneys, smokestacks, penthouses, spires, flagpoles, ventilators, skylights, derricks, conveyors, and cooling towers;

      (3)   Radio and television antennas and towers, observation towers, and power transmission towers;

      (4)   Water tanks and standpipes; and

      (5)   Other similar and necessary mechanical appurtenances pertaining to and necessary to the permitted uses of the districts in which they are located, provided that they are not used for human occupancy.

   (C)   Churches, schools, hospitals, sanitariums, and other public and semi-public buildings may exceed the height limitations of the zoning district provided the front, side, and rear yards required in the district are increased one foot for each two feet by which the height of such public or semi-public structure exceeds the prescribed height limit.

(Ord. 10.6, passed 3-17-2009)