(A) Rear yards may be reduced by three inches from the required least depth for each foot by which a lot at the time of enactment of this chapter is less than 100 feet deep, in the case of a building not higher than two and one-half stories, and in the case the owner of record does not own adjoining property to the rear, provided, however, that no required rear yard shall be less than ten feet deep.
(B) (1) Structures or projections into rear yards may be permitted as follows:
(a) Fences, plantings, or walls not over six feet above the average natural grade;
(b) Fire escapes six feet from the building; and
(c) Bays and balconies not more than three feet from the building, provided these projections are entirely within the planes drawn from either main corner of the rear wall, making an interior angle of 22 and one-half degrees in the horizontal plane with the rear wall.
(2) The sum of the lengths of such projections shall not exceed one-half of the width of the rear wall.
(C) Chimneys, flues, belt courses, leaders, sills, pilaster lintels, ornamental features, cornices, eaves, gutters and the like, into or over a required rear yard not more than one and one-half feet.
(D) Terraces, steps, uncovered porches, or similar features not more than ten feet into a required rear yard, nor:
(1) Closer than six feet of an alley;
(2) Within ten feet of a rear lot line nor an alley lot line; or
(3) Within six feet of an accessory building.
(Ord. passed 5-16-2023)