(a) Intent. This section is intended as an addition to all yard and building height requirements otherwise specified in this Zoning Code and is intended to be used for the interpretation and clarification thereof.
(b) Setbacks for Corner Buildings. On a corner lot, the principal building and its accessory structures are required to have the same setback distance from all street right- of-way lines as is required for a front yard in the district in which such building and structures are located.
(c) Visibility at Intersections in Residential Districts. On a corner lot in a Residential District, nothing shall be erected, placed, planted or allowed to grow in such a manner as to materially impede vision between a height of two and one-half and ten feet above the centerline grades of the intersecting streets in the area bounded by the street lines of such corner lots and a line joining points along such street lines fifty feet from the point of intersection.
(d) Fences, Walls and Hedges.
(1) A fence, wall, hedge, or other vegetation shall be permitted to a height not exceeding eight feet above the ground level, except no such fence, wall, hedge, or other vegetation which is located within a required front or corner side yard shall exceed a height of two and one-half feet, and shall be subject to traffic visibility requirements of Section 1280.05(c).
(2) All fence posts and structural supports shall be located on the side of the fence facing the interior of the property, with the finished side of the fence facing the adjacent property.
(e) Yards for Multifamily or Group Dwellings. A group or multifamily dwelling shall be considered as one building for the purposes of determining front, side and rear yard requirements. The entire group or dwelling as a unit shall require one front yard, one rear yard and two side yards, as specified for dwellings in the district in which the group or multifamily dwelling is located.
(f) Yards for Nonresidential Uses Abutting Residential Districts. Nonresidential buildings or uses shall not be located or conducted closer than forty feet to a lot line of a Residential District, except that the minimum yard requirements of the District may be reduced to fifty percent thereof if acceptable landscaping or screening approved by the Zoning Inspector is provided. 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. Landscaping provided in lieu of such wall or fence shall consist of a strip of land not less than twenty 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. Either type of screening shall not obscure traffic visibility within fifty feet of an intersection.
(Ord. 10-58. Passed 1-3-11.)
(g) Architectural Projections. Open structures such as porches, canopies, balconies, platforms, carports, covered patios and other similar architectural projections shall be considered parts of the buildings to which they are attached and shall not project into the required minimum front, side or rear yards.
(h) Exceptions to Height Regulations. The height limitations contained in this Zoning Code do not apply to spires, belfries, cupolas, antennas, water tanks, ventilators, chimneys or other appurtenances usually required to be placed above the roof level and not intended for human occupancy, except where the height of such structures will constitute a hazard to the safe landing and take-off of aircraft on or from an established airport.
(Ord. 82-38. Passed 9-20-82.)