The maximum heights specified for buildings in the appropriate section of this zoning code shall not apply to:
(A) Public and semipublic buildings, churches, and schools, provided that these are located on the first floor of the buildings and may provide that for each three feet by which the height of the 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 one foot over the side and rear yards, required for the highest building otherwise permitted in the district.
(B) Bulkheads, elevator penthouses, water tanks, monitors, scenery lofts, towers, and monuments, provided no linear dimensions of any such structure exceed 50% of the corresponding street lot line frontage. Fire towers, hose towers, cooling towers, gas holders, or other structures, where the manufacturing process requires more than 50% of the street lot line frontage, provided, that all the structures above the heights otherwise permitted in the district shall not occupy more than 25% of the area of the lot and shall be distant not less than 25 feet in all parts from every lot line.
(C) Church spires, belfries, cupolas and domes, monuments, water towers, masts and aerials.
(D) Parapet walls which extend not more than four feet above the limiting height of the building.
HISTORY: (Formerly § 154.180(B); Ord. 2306, passed 2-23-82; Am. Ord. 2397, passed 7-12-83; Am. Ord. 2810, passed 7-23-91)