(a) Unless otherwise specifically provided, no building or structure in the City shall exceed a height of thirty-five feet.
(b) Where the width of a lot at the building line is less than 100 feet, no building or structure shall exceed a height of thirty feet.
(c) Subsections (a) and (b) hereof shall not apply to restrict the height of a high-rise apartment, church spire, belfry, chimney flue or elevator bulkhead.
(d) The Board of Zoning Appeals may, after public notice and hearing and subject to such conditions and safeguards as the Commission may prescribe to protect the appropriate use of neighboring property, permit the erection of a building or portion of a building, covering not more than twenty-five percent of the area of the lot, to a height in excess of the limits prescribed in subsections (a) and (b) hereof, which permission shall be confirmed by resolution of Council before becoming effective.
(e) Nothing in this Zoning Code shall prevent the erection, above the height limit, of a parapet wall or cornice, solely for ornament and without windows, extending above such height limit not more than three feet.
(Ord. 1985-29. Passed 10-14-85.)