(a) The height limitations as defined and stipulated elsewhere in this Zoning Code are subject to the following modifications and exceptions:
(1) Structure Heights. In an R district, public, semipublic or public service buildings, hospitals (except as otherwise provided) and places of worship may be erected to a height not exceeding three stories or forty five feet including all construction mechanicals, and spires and steeples may be erected to a height not exceeding seventy five feet from ground level; provided, however, that the building is set back from each required yard at least one foot for each one foot of additional height above the height limit otherwise provided in the district where the building is built.
(2) Height limitations shall not apply to spires, belfries, cupolas, domes, false mansards, parapet walls, monuments; water towers, fire and hose towers, observation towers, transmission towers; windmills, chimneys, smoke stacks, flag poles, radio and television towers and antennas, masts and aerials, provided that the foregoing are not extended more than four feet above the limiting height of the building.
(3) Within fifty (50) feet of any residential zoning district, the maximum height in a GBD, CBD, M-1, or M-2 zone shall be sixty (60) feet.
(Ord. 8-2013. Passed 2-26-13.)