(A) Along any district boundary line, an abutting side yard on a lot in the less restricted district shall have at least a width equal to that required in the more restricted district; and in a B-2 or I District, on a lot abutting a lot in any R District, such side yard for a building higher than the limiting height in such R District shall be increased by three feet for each story over such limiting height.
(B) Side yards shall be increased in width by two inches for each foot by which the length of the side wall of the building, adjacent to the side yard, exceeds 40 feet in any R-1 or R-2 District, or 50 feet in any R-3 District.
(C) Side yards may be reduced by three inches from the otherwise required least width or sum of the least widths for each foot by which a lot of record, at the time of enactment of this chapter, is narrower than the lot width specified for the district in which the lot is located in the case of buildings not higher than two and one-half stories, and in case the owner of record does not own any adjoining property; provided, however, that no side yard shall be narrower at any point than three feet.
(D) No part of any accessory building shall be nearer a side street lot line than the least depth of any front yard required along such side street.
(E) Side yards may be varied where the side walls of a building are not parallel with the side lot line or is broken or otherwise irregular, in which case the average width, or narrower than three feet in any case.
(F) (1) Structures or projections into side yards may be permitted as follows:
(a) Fences, plantings, or walls not over six feet above the average natural grade;
(b) Fire escapes three feet from a side lot line; and
(c) Bays and balconies not more than three feet from the building, provided these projections are entirely within planes drawn from either main corner of the side wall, making an interior angle of 22 and one-half degrees in the horizontal plane with the side wall.
(2) The sum of the lengths of such projection shall not exceed one-third of the length of the side yard.
(G) Chimneys, flues, belt courses, leaders, sill, pilasters, lintels, ornamental features, cornices, eaves, gutters, and the like into or over a required side yard not more than one and one-half feet.
(H) Terraces, steps, uncovered porches, stoops or similar features not higher than the elevation of the ground story of the building and distant three feet from a side lot line.
(Ord. passed 5-16-2023)