In a residence district, front yard lines are hereby determined as follows:
(a) General Provisions. On any street frontage on either side of a street between two successive intersecting streets, but excluding the frontage along the side line of a corner lot, a line which is set back of the street line a distance equal to fifteen percent of the average or normal depth of the lots having their front lines along the street frontage, shall be the front yard line, but the distance such front yard line is back of the street line need not be more than thirty feet. Where, in any portion of the street frontage, there are lots of markedly less depth than the normal, the Board of Zoning Appeals in defining and applying this front yard line regulation may, when in its opinion the general purpose and intent of this chapter will be better served thereby, divide the street frontage into sections for the application of the above fifteen percent front yard line requirement.
(b) Existing Alignment. On a street frontage on either side of a street between two successive intersecting streets, but excluding the frontage along the side line of a corner lot, where twenty percent or more of the frontage is improved with buildings built back of the street line, the alignment of the existing buildings along the frontage shall, in the absence of a specific building line, be the front yard line.
(c) To the Street Line. On a street frontage on either side of a street between two successive intersecting streets, but excluding the frontage along the side line of a corner lot, where sixty percent or more of the frontage is improved with buildings that are built to the street line, and where no specific building line is indicated, the street line shall be the front yard line.
(d) Frontage on Public Park or Parkway. Where one or more lots front on a public park or parkway, such park or parkway shall be deemed a street frontage for the purpose of the said lines required by this chapter, and the line between the public park or parkway and the privately owned property fronting thereon shall be deemed a street line. This shall not serve to relieve the privately owned property of any other building line requirement.
(Ord. 42-55. Passed 2-21-55.)