Accessory buildings and structures are subject to the placement and setback requirements outlined in each zoning district, and residential detached accessory buildings and structures are also subject to the following placement regulations:
(a) Accessory buildings shall not be located in any required or non-required front yard (i.e., not permitted between the house and the street).
(b) Accessory buildings and structures in lakefront yards not exceeding eighteen inches in height above the surrounding grade shall be setback from the water's edge by a minimum of five feet. Accessory buildings and structures in lakefront yards exceeding eighteen inches in height above the surrounding grade shall be setback from the water's edge by a minimum of twenty feet. Notwithstanding the previous setback requirements, the following accessory structures may be located anywhere in a required or non-required lakefront yard: a ground-level deck, a play structure, a pump house, a temporary boat lift and a temporary dock. Accessory buildings and structures in rear (non-lakefront) yards shall be set back from the side or rear property line by a minimum of five feet, unless greater setbacks are required by this code.
(c) Accessory buildings shall be permitted in any required and non-required side and rear yards subject to:
(1) The general regulations of this section and other requirements of this Zoning Code.
(2) The setback regulations of Sections 1250.06 for the Single-Family Detached Residential Districts and the requirement of site plan approval for all other districts.
(3) The total area of all accessory buildings or structures shall not occupy more than twenty-five percent of the area of the required yard in which they are located.
(d) When an accessory building is closer than ten feet to a principal building, additional fire separation construction requirements will be necessary as set forth in the Building and Housing Code.
(e) When the rear lot line of a corner lot is the same as the side lot line of an adjoining lot in a Residential District, no accessory building shall be closer to the rear lot line than the required side yard setback of such adjoining lot nor closer to the side street lot line than the front yard setback of the principal building on the adjoining lot.
(f) When the rear lot line of a corner lot is the same as the rear lot line of any other lot, no accessory building shall be closer to the side street lot line than the setback of the principal building on either of the lots.
(g) When an accessory building is attached to the principal building, the accessory buildings must meet all of the setback requirements of the principal building.
(Ord. 106. Passed 12-9-81; Ord. 106A-21. Passed 12-13-89; Ord. 160A-109. Passed 7-11-18; Ord. 106A-117. Passed 10-13-21.)