(A) Encroachments permitted into required yard setbacks.
(1) Interior lots. Carports, porches, decks, canopies, stairways, completely open (except for reasonable supports) may encroach into required side and rear yards by 50%.
(2) Corner lots. Carports, porches, decks, canopies, stairways, completely open (except for reasonable supports) may encroach by 75% into any yard other than the right-of-way yard setback.
(3) Handicap ramps. Handicap ramps may encroach into the required front, side and/or rear setbacks by 50%. Where no other practical alternative is available, encroachments greater than 50% may be allowed by the Zoning Administrator when an existing development has insufficient land available, an unsafe condition would be created or other extenuating circumstances exist. Whenever flexibility is granted, the reasons for granting the flexibility shall be documented. In addition, the owner of the property shall provide a written statement agreeing to remove the ramp once the person with disabilities no longer needs the ramp.
(4) Definition. In defining carports, three sides must be left open; decorative walls, planters, shrubbery or other obstructions are permitted as part of the carport or adjacent to the carport as long as it does not exceed three feet in height and a minimum of 50% of the area is unobstructed.
(B) Recreational vehicles. Recreational vehicles may be stored on any lot in any residential zoning district; provided, they are not stored in the required setback for front yards. Recreational vehicles, while being stored in this area, cannot be used for sleeping, utility, office, material storage and the like.
(C) Impeding vision. On a corner lot in any residential district, nothing shall be erected, placed, planted or allowed to grow in such a manner as materially to impede vision between a height of three and ten feet above the centerline grades of the intersection streets; and in the area bounded by the centerlines of intersecting streets and a line joining points along said centerlines 80 feet from the point of the intersection.
(Ord. passed 4-9-2013; Ord. 2021-03, passed 6-8-2021)