(A) The requirements and regulations specified herein before this chapter shall be subject to the additional requirements, exceptions, modifications, and interpretations in division (B) below.
(B) Height limitations stipulated elsewhere in this chapter shall not apply:
(1) To barns, silos, or other farm buildings, provided these are not less than 50 feet from every lot line; to church spires, belfries, cupolas, and domes; monuments; water towers; fire and hose towers; on private but not commercial communication towers and facilities to parapet walls extending not more than four feet above the limiting height of the building. However if, in the opinion of the appropriate official, such structures would adversely affect adjoining or adjacent properties, such greater height shall not be authorized except by the Zoning Board of Appeals;
(2) To places of public assembly such as churches, schools, and other permitted public and semi-public buildings not to exceed six stories or 75 feet, provided that for each foot by which the height of such building exceeds the maximum height otherwise permitted in the district, its side and rear yards shall be increased in width or depth by an additional foot over the side and rear yards required for the highest building otherwise permitted in the district;
(3) To bulkheads, conveyors, derricks, elevators, penthouses, water tanks, monitors, and scenery lofts; and to monuments, fire towers, hose towers, cooling towers, grain elevators, gas holders, or other structures where the manufacturing process requires a greater height. Where a permitted use requires greater heights than specified, it may be authorized by the Zoning Board of Appeals; and
(4) To hospitals, provided that for each foot by which the height of such building exceeds the maximum height otherwise permitted in the district, its side and rear yards shall be increased in width and depth by an additional one-half foot over the side and rear yards required for the highest building otherwise permitted in the district.
(Ord. passed 5-16-2023)