(a) Private Garages.
(1) Garages permitted as an accessory use to a single-family dwelling in a Class I Residential, Class II Residential or Class III Residential District shall not provide storage for more than three motor vehicles. Garages permitted as an accessory use to a residence having provision for more than one family in a Class I Residential, Class II Residential or Class III Residential District shall not provide storage for more than two motor vehicles for each family for which such dwelling is arranged or designed.
(2) If built in a terrace or retaining wall on the front or side of the lot, such garage shall not project in front of the terrace or retaining wall, shall not extend above the top of the terrace or retaining wall more than three feet and shall in no case extend above the level of the ground floor of a building on an adjacent lot.
(3) In a Class I Residential, Class II Residential or Class III Residential District no separate garage building shall be erected, except in a terrace or a retaining wall, less than sixty feet from a bordering street line. However, on lots of less than the usual depth or on corner lots, a separate garage building may be erected if it is located five feet from the lot line opposite the street line, provided it extends toward the street line from this location not more than twenty-five feet or is not less than twenty feet from the street line.
(b) Public Garages and Filling Stations.
(1) No public garage, garage repair shop or filling station shall be erected or established which has any part of its proposed building structure located within 200 feet of the building structure of a public library, public school, church, playground, hospital, orphanage or children's home which existed on June 6, 1949, or for which a building permit has been issued or was in effect on such date.
(2) Nothing contained in this division shall be construed to permit any such institution now located in any district zoned for business, by acquiring premises therein or erecting an additional building thereon, to shorten the 200-foot limit between such institutional structure heretofore erected and such proposed garage or filling station structure, as defined in this Zoning Code.
(3) However, in the event that the governing body of any such public school, church, library, playground, hospital, orphanage or children's home files its consent in writing with the Zoning Administrator, a public garage, garage repair shop or filling station may be erected or established less than 200 feet but not less than fifty feet from the building structure of any such institution.
(c) Stables. No building or structure for housing more than one bovine or equine animal shall be erected or established which has any part thereof located within 200 feet of a residence, the distance to be measured as provided in this section.
(1956 Code Sec. 1337.01; Ord. 242-18. Passed 10-8-18.)