(a) Building and setback lines are established as follows:
(1) The building lines set forth on the Zone Map are hereby established.
(2) In cases where no building or setback lines are set forth on the Zone Map, they shall be located as follows:
A. On a street frontage on each side of a street between two successive intersecting or joining 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 (30%) of the average or normal depth of the lots having front lines along such street but not more than fifty feet from such street line.
B. 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 (20%) or more of such is improved with buildings, the alignment of existing buildings along such frontage shall be the building line.
C. On a corner lot the building line along each street shall be a line parallel to the street line and distant therefrom fifteen percent (15%) of the average depth of the next adjoining lot except as follows:
1. The building line shall be in no case more than twenty-five feet nor less than fifteen feet from the street line.
2. In corner lots, one street frontage of which, excluding turn-outs, is less than one-half of the other 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.
(b) Between the building line and the street no building or structure or portions thereof, extending above the established grade, or the natural grade where no established grade exists, may be erected except as otherwise provided in this Zoning Ordinance, and except as follows:
(1) Porches
(2) Cornices
(3) Steps
(4) Shrubs
(1978 Code Sec. 1262.05)
(5) Fences on front of property line to the rear of the house may not exceed thirty-six inches in height. Fences in the rear of house may not exceed forty-eight inches in height if chain link and seventy-two inches in height if constructed of wood and maintained the same as the dwelling. If such fences are not maintained the property owner will be notified that they shall be removed.
(Ord. 23-2001. Passed 10-23-01.)