(A) Permitted height. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter all principal structures shall meet the height requirements of this chapter.
(B) General requirements. The height of public buildings, churches, hospitals, and schools may exceed the height allowed in the applicable district, provided that the building be set back from all lot lines not less than one foot in addition to the required yard dimensions for each foot the buildings exceed the height allowed in the district concerned, and that the buildings not exceed 55 feet in height in any event.
(C) Exceptions to height restrictions. Chimneys, church steeples, elevator bulkheads, water towers, grain elevators, silos, penthouses, stacks, stage towers, tanks, pumping towers, monuments, cupolas, and other mechanical appurtenances pertaining to and necessary to the permitted uses of the district in which they are located shall not be included in calculating the height of the principal structure. However, none of this type of structure may be erected to be more than 15 feet above the height limits of the district in which it is located; nor shall the structure have a total area greater than 10% of the roof area of the building, nor shall the structure be used for any residential, commercial, or industrial purpose other than a use incidental to the main use of the building.
(D) Additional exceptions to height restrictions. Accessory structures in AG districts not referenced in division (C) of this section shall not exceed 35 feet in height.
(Ord. 23, § 2.10.20, passed 3-19-1997; Am. Ord. 45, passed 4-15-1998; Am. Ord. 145-B, passed 12-8-2020) Penalty, see § 156.999