(a) The subsequent widening of a street shall not serve to change the location of an established building line, except where it would lie within the new street.
(b) Whenever the plat of a land subdivision approved by the City Planning Commission and on record in the office of the County Recorder shows a setback building line along any frontage for the purpose of creating a front or side street yard, the building line thus shown shall, along the frontage, apply in place of any other yard line herein provided, except the specific building lines provided in Section 1189.06.
(c) Whenever any parcel of land now separately owned and which was so owned prior to the passage of Ordinance 1384 (May 4, 1931) or at the time of any amendment thereto requiring a deeper front or side yard line as to such parcel, is of such restricted dimensions that it cannot be appropriately improved without building beyond the front or the side street yard line established by this Zoning Code, the Board of Zoning Appeals may, on application in a specific case, authorize the construction of a building beyond the yard line to an extent necessary to secure an appropriate improvement of the parcel of land when not unreasonably injurious to other affected property or to the general interest of the City.
(d) Entrance canopies or similar overhanging roofed spaces covering not more than twenty square feet of horizontal area for each forty feet of lot frontage, porticos or bays projecting not more than three feet, exclusive of cornices, and aggregating a vertical area in any story of not more than twenty percent of the area of the face of that story, are exempt from the front or side street yard restrictions of this Zoning Code on buildings not nearer the street line than ten feet. Also, exempt are steps and landings below the level of the first floor and hedges, ornamental fences and walls not more than three feet, six inches high above the grade level.
(Ord. 42-55. Passed 2-21-55.)