(a) Building and setback lines are hereby established as follows:
(1) The building lines set forth on the Zone Map accompanying this Zoning Code and made a part thereof are hereby established.
(2) In cases where no setback or building lines are set forth on the Zone Map, they shall be located as follows:
A. On a street frontage on each side of the street between two successive intersecting or adjoining streets, but excluding the frontage along the side lines of the corner lots, the building line shall be a line parallel with the street line and distant therefrom thirty percent of the average or normal depth of the lots having their front lines along such street, but not more than fifty feet from the street line.
B. For properties fronting upon Cedar Road, Fairmount Boulevard, Shaker Boulevard, South Woodland Road, Chagrin Boulevard, Brainard Road, Lander Road, S.O.M. Center Road, or Gates Mills Boulevard, the building setback line shall be parallel to the street line and distant seventy-five feet therefrom.
C. The setback line on the south side of Pinetree Road, formerly Kinsman Road, between Lander Circle and Lewis Road, within the City, shall be a line parallel with the south line of Pinetree Road, formerly Kinsman Road, and seventy-five feet distant therefrom.
D. The building setback line on Shaker Boulevard shall be seventy-five feet, except as provided in subsections (a)(2)E. and (a)(2)F. hereof.
E. The building line on the north side of Shaker Boulevard between Edgedale Road and Lander Road shall be parallel to the tree line and 200 feet therefrom with respect to Parcels 111, 112, 29, 157, 156, 155, 154, 153, 152 and 151 only, as shown on the Zone Map of the City, and the building line on the south side of Shaker Boulevard, between Bolingbrook Road and Lander Road, shall be parallel to the street line and 100 feet distant therefrom.
F. The building line on the north side of Shaker Boulevard, west of Lander Road, with respect to Sublots 136 to 141, inclusive, and 149 to 150, inclusive, shall be parallel to the street line and 100 feet distant therefrom.
G. On a street frontage on either side of a street between two successive intersecting or joining streets, but excluding the frontage along the side lines of the corner lots. Where twenty percent or more of such frontage is improved with buildings, the alignment of the existing buildings along such frontage shall be the building line.
H. On a corner lot in a U-1 District, the building line along each street shall be a line parallel to the street line and distant therefrom fifteen percent of the average depth of the next adjoining lot except as follows:
1. The building line shall in no case be more than seventy-five feet nor less than fifty feet from the street line.
2. On corner lots, one street frontage of which (excluding turnouts) is less than one-half of the street frontage, the building line along the shorter frontage shall be a prolongation of the building line of the next adjoining lot and parallel to the street line.
I. In a U-3 District, the building line shall in no case be less than seventy-five feet from the street line.
(b) Between the building line and the street line no building or structure, including walls and fences, or portion thereof, extending above the established grade, may be erected except as otherwise provided in these Codified Ordinances and as follows:
(1) In a U-1 District, a one-story unenclosed porch may be constructed between the building line and the street line, but all porches of more than one story in height, enclosed porches, and balconies over porches, must conform to the building line.
(2) Cornices, belt courses, entrance canopies or similar overhanging roofed spaces covering not more than twenty square feet of horizontal area for each forty feet of lot of frontage, porticoes 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 front of that story, shall be exempt from the front yard restrictions of this section on buildings not nearer the street line than ten feet.
(c) No shrubs or foliage shall be maintained between the building line and the street line which will obstruct the view of a driver of a vehicle approaching an intersection or junction and within seventy-five feet of the center of the intersection or junction of approaching traffic on the intersecting or joining street.
(d) For lots in any district not otherwise subject to a street setback described above, the Planning Commission shall determine the setback based upon building massing, scale, level and hours of activity, noise and light generation, and similar factors.
(Ord. 2020-25. Passed 12-23-20.)