§ 155.047 HEIGHT REGULATIONS.
   The following requirements are intended to provide exceptions of quality and supplement, as the case may be, the specific district regulations set forth in §§ 155.020 through 155.031.
   (A)   In measuring heights, a walk-out basement or habitable 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 zoning districts:
      (1)   Agricultural buildings: barns, silos, windmills, but not including dwellings;
      (2)   Chimneys, smokestacks, penthouses, 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, sanatoriums and other public and semi-public buildings may exceed the height limitations of the district if the minimum depth of the front, side and rear yards required in the district is increased one foot for each two feet by which the height of such public and semi-public structure exceeds the prescribed height limit.
(Prior Code, § 27-A-06-03)