(a) Except as hereinafter provided, no building or structure shall be erected, altered, enlarged, or reconstructed to exceed the height limit established for the district wherein such building or structure is located, as set forth in Tables 1 and 2.
(b) Exceptions to Height Limitations:
(1) On through lots one hundred fifty feet or less in depth, the height of a building may be measured from the adjoining curb level on either street.
(2) On through lots more than one hundred fifty feet in depth, the height regulations and basis of height measurements for the street permitted the greater height, shall apply to a depth of not more than one hundred fifty feet from the street.
(3) Penthouses or roof structures for the housing of elevators, stairways, tanks, ventilating fans or similar equipment required to operate and maintain the building, fire or parapet walls, skylights, television aerials, electrical transmission and communication poles and towers, theater screens, steeples, roof signs, flagpoles, chimneys, smokestacks, wireless masts, water tanks, grain elevators, silos, gas containers, industrial installation requiring a vertical production procedure such as flour mills, steel mills and refineries, or similar structures may be erected above the height limits herein prescribed, but no such structures or any place above the height limits shall be allowed for the purpose of providing additional floor space for residential, business or industrial use.
(Ord. 411. Passed 12-4-75.)