In a "BC" Business District the following limitations and requirements shall apply:
(a) Height. No building shall exceed forty-five feet or three stories in height, except that churches, hospitals, schools or any other public building permitted may be built to a greater height, provided any such building set back from every street and lot line, one foot for each two feet of height of building in excess of forty-five feet, in addition to the other yard and set-back requirements herein specified.
(b) Rear Yard. There shall be a rear yard on every lot in a “BC” Business and Commercial District which rear yard shall have a minimum depth of 50 feet between the building constructed on said lot and the rear yard boundary line. Every building not used exclusively for residence purposes or as an accessory building thereto and extending back to an alley shall provide on such lot adequate space for the loading and unloading of trucks and commercial vehicles servicing such building, provided however, that the loading space requirements may be modified however, or waived by the Planning Commission in the case of a bank, theater, assembly hall or other building or similar limited loading space requirements. Every building or part of a building used for residence purposes shall have a rear yard, the minimum depth of which shall be not less than twenty feet, which depth shall be increased by three feet for each story above the first story.
Accessory buildings no greater in height than the main building on the same lot nor greater in height than fifteen feet may be located in a rear yard, provided the accessory buildings occupy not more than twenty-five percent (25%) of the rear yard area.
(c) Side Yard. There shall be a side yard on each side of every building, used for Business or Commercial purposes, with at least a length of 15 feet from the side property boundary lines.
Where a building is designed for both commercial and dwelling purposes, outer courts may be substituted in lieu of side yards for that part of the building used for dwelling purposes. At any given level such outer court shall be one foot in width for each two feet of height of the highest wall abutting such court but in no cases shall such width be less than five feet.
Whenever any room in which people live or sleep cannot be lighted and ventilated from a street, rear yard, side yard or outer court, an inner court must be provided. Any any given level such inner court shall be at least nine inches wide for each one foot of height of the highest wall abutting such inner court but in no case shall an inner court be less than ten feet wide.
(d) Set-back Line. No building shall be erected, reconstructed or altered so as to project in any manner beyond a line which is a distance from the street line a length of 50 feet. Where the mutual boundary of a "BC" Business and Commercial District and any Residential District occurs within a city block, the set-back, line requirements for the lots included in the "BC" Business and Commercial District shall be a continuance of the set-back line requirements of the Residential District portion of the block except that with the approval of the Planning Commission, an intersecting alley may be used as a point of transition for a set-back line requirements.
No cornice, eave, balcony or any other part of any building in the "BC" Business and Commercial District shall extend beyond the street line above grade.
A detachment or detached dwelling erected, reconstructed or altered in a "BC" Business and Commercial District, shall conform to the set-back line requirements of Section 1173.05(d).
(e) Lot Area. The minimum lot area requirements for dwellings shall be as required by Section 1173.05(e). Minimum lot areas shall not be required for other types of permitted buildings except such area as is incidental to the requirements specified elsewhere in the Zoning Ordinance.
(f) Gross Area of Buildings. No more than forty percent (40%) of the area of any lot may be covered by a detached dwelling and its accessory buildings.
Other permitted buildings shall not be restricted in gross area except as is incidental to the other requirements of this Section.
(g) Dimensions of Buildings. The minimum horizontal dimension of any detached dwelling shall be not less than twenty-eight feet, and the minimum ground floor area shall be not less than 896 square feet. There shall be no minimum requirements for dimensions and areas for other permitted buildings.
(Ord. 1989-7. Passed 7-27-89; Ord. 1996-3(d). Passed 7-8-96; Ord. 2018-06. Passed 9-10-18.)