1240.23 YARD.
   (a)   "Yard" means an open space on the same lot with a building or group of buildings, lying between the building or group of buildings and the nearest lot line, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except such encroachments of structures permitted herein. A yard shall be measured between a lot line and a line parallel to such lot line drawn through the point of a building or the point of a group of buildings nearest to such lot line, exclusive of the features permitted to extend into the required yard under this Zoning Code. The measurement of the yard shall be taken at right angles from the lot line to the line of the building.
   (b)   "Front yard" means a yard extending across the full width of the lot and lying between the front line of the lot and the nearest line of the building.
   (c)   "Rear yard" means a yard extending across the full width of the lot between the rear line of the lot and the nearest line of the main building.
   (d)   "Side yard" means a yard between the side line of the lot and the nearest line of the building and extending from the front yard to the rear yard or, in the absence of either of such yards, to the front or rear lot line, as the case may be.
   (e)   "Least width of side yard" means the narrower of the two side yards.
(Ord. 56-53. Passed 10-1-1956.)