(A) No building shall be erected, converted, enlarged, reconstructed, or structurally altered to exceed the height limit hereinafter established for the district in which the building is located, except that roof structures for the housing of elevators, stairways, tanks, ventilating fans, or similar equipment required to operate and maintain the building, and fire or parapet walls, skylights, towers, steeples, stage lofts and screens, flagpoles, chimneys, smokestacks, individual domestic radio and television aerials and wireless masts, water tanks, solar collectors, or similar structures may be erected above the height limits herein prescribed. No such structure may be erected to exceed by more than 15 feet the height limits of the district in which it is located; nor shall such structure have a total area greater than 25% of the roof area of the building, nor shall such structure be used for any residential purpose or any commercial purpose other than a use incidental to the main use of the building. Freestanding monuments, transmission towers, radio or television antennas or towers, chimneys, flagpoles, water towers, and similar structures may be erected on a lot to a greater height than the limit established for the district in which the lot is located, subject to the following limitations.
(1) The total height of the structure shall be 150 feet or less from the ground.
(2) The use of the exception must be one that is normally incidental to the permitted use of the principal building or use of the lot.
(3) The exception may not cover, at any level, more than 5% of the area of the lot.
(B) In any R-1, R-1A, or R-2 District, public and quasi-public buildings, except hospitals, permitted in such district may be erected to a height not exceeding 75 feet, provided any required front, rear, or side yard shall be increased one foot for each foot by which such building exceeds the height limits established in § 153.440.
(Prior Code, § 153.045) (Ord. D-1418, § 406, passed 11-22-1982, effective 1-21-1983)