Within any residential district, chimneys, domes, elevator penthouses, skylights, spires, stacks, towers, ventilators or other necessary appurtenant features usually carried above roofs of structures permitted in each respective district, when erected upon and as an integral part of a building, and if such structures are not used for human occupancy, may be erected above the height limit specified in the Schedule, Section 1211.09, but in no case, shall any such feature extend more than twenty feet above the finished roof line.
Water towers, wireless or broadcasting towers, radio or television antennae and other like structures may be erected above the height limit specified in the Schedule, Section 1211.09, subject to the following constraints: (Ord. 1997-76. Passed 5-15-97.)
(a) The height from the base of such structure or the uppermost point at which such structure is attached to a building, to the top of such structure shall not be greater than the horizontal distance from the base of the structure to the nearest adjoining property line.
(b) A variance by the Board of Building and Zoning Appeals shall be required for any such structure over thirty-five feet in height if detached from the main building, or over twenty feet in height above the upper point of attachment to a main building.
(Ord. 1969-169. Passed 7-16-70; Ord. 2020-149. Passed 2-18-21.)