In addition to all yard regulations specified in the official schedule of district regulations and in other sections of this chapter, the following provisions shall be adhered to.
(A) Accessory buildings, detached.
(1) Accessory buildings, including portable car shelters, shall not be located in any required front yard, shall be located ten feet from the principal structure and shall adhere to side yard requirements.
(2) Rear yard setback requirements for detached accessory buildings shall be reduced to five feet from the rear yard lot line.
(B) Architectural projections. Open structures such as porches, canopies, balconies, platforms, carports, covered patios and similar architectural projections shall be considered parts of the building to which attached and shall not project into the required minimum front, side or rear yard. (Also see division (C) below.)
(C) Front yard projections; porches.
(1) Covered but unenclosed porches, when not more than one story high and which do not extend more than six feet beyond the front walls of the building (but in no case shall such projection come closer than ten feet from the setback line), are exempt from the front yard setback provisions and need not be included in determining front yard setback when requesting the addition of a porch to an existing home.
(2) As of this subchapter date, such described porches shall not be subject to a conditional use permit, but the owner shall be required to come before the Planning and Zoning Commission with plans and setback measurements. New structures will be subject to the architectural projections requirement above.
(D) Front yard restrictions. In any required front yard, no fence or wall shall be permitted to exceed four feet in height. There shall be no structure of any kind or open storage of materials.
(E) Multi-family dwelling yard requirements. Multi-family dwellings or complexes with eight or more units must include common areas for playgrounds, recreation or group usage of at least 100 square feet per unit with a minimum of 400 square feet.
(F) Side and rear yard requirements for nonresidential uses abutting residential districts.
(1) Nonresidential buildings or uses shall not be located nor conducted closer than 30 feet to any lot line of a residential district, except that the minimum yard requirements may be reduced to 50% of the requirement if acceptable landscaping or screening approved by the Commission is provided.
(2) Such screening shall be a masonry or solid fence between four and eight feet in height, maintained in good condition and free of all advertising or other signs.
(3) Landscaping provided in lieu of such wall or fence shall consist of a strip of land not less than 15 feet in width planted with an evergreen hedge or dense planting of evergreen shrubs not less than four feet in height at the time of planting.
(G) Visibility at intersections. On a corner lot in any district nothing shall be erected, placed, planted or allowed to grow in such a manner as to materially impede vision between a height of three and ten feet above the centerline grades of the intersecting streets of such corner lots and a line joining points along said street lines 50 feet from the point of centerline intersection.
(Prior Code, § 17.40.020)