(A) Front yard. The front yards heretofore established shall be adjusted in the following cases.
(1) Where 40% or more of the frontage on one side of a street between two intersecting streets is developed and the buildings on this side of a block have observed a front yard greater in depth than herein required, new buildings shall not be erected closer to the street than the average front yard so established by the existing buildings, provided that no building shall be required to have a front yard setback of more than 50 feet.
(2) Where 40% or more of the frontage on one side of a street between two intersecting streets is developed with buildings that have a front yard less than the required, new buildings shall not be erected closer to the street than the nearest building on the block.
(B) Side yard. The required side yard shall be maintained on each side of a dwelling, but such side yard may be reduced to 10% of the lot width on lots of less than 60 feet in width; provided however, that no side yard shall be less than five feet.
(C) Rear yard depth. The required rear yard may be reduced to 20% of the depth of the lot. An accessory building may be built within a required rear yard when located at least five feet from the rear lot line and when occupying not more than 30% of the area of such required rear yard. Further, where access to a garage is provided from an alley, such structure shall be no closer than eight feet to said alley.
(D) Structural projections. The ordinary projections of chimneys and flues, buttresses, eaves, overhangs, open-unenclosed steps, or stoops up to five feet in height may extend into required yards for a distance of not more than two feet in the required side yard and not more than five feet in the required front yard.
(Ord. 667, passed 12-3-2014) Penalty, see § 153.999