(a) On a street frontage on each side of a street between two successive intersecting or joining streets, excluding the frontage along the side lines of the corner lots, the building line shall be a line parallel with the street curb line and a distance therefrom of thirty percent (30%) of the average or normal depth of the lots having front lines along the street, but not less than seventy-four feet from the street curb line.
(b) On a street frontage on either side of a street between two successive intersecting or joining streets but excluding the frontage along the side lines of the corner lots, where twenty percent (20%) or more of the frontage is improved with buildings, the alignment of the existing buildings along the frontage shall be the building line.
(c) Between the building line and the street line no building or structure, including walls and fences, or portions thereof, extending above the established grade may be erected except as follows:
(1) A one-story unenclosed porch not more than eight feet in width may be constructed between the building line and the street line, but all porches of more than one story in height, enclosed porches, and balconies over porches, must conform to the building line.
(2) Cornices, belt courses, entrance canopies, or similar overhanging roofed spaces covering not more than twenty square feet of horizontal area for each forty feet of frontage; porticos or bays projecting not more than three feet, exclusive of cornices, and aggregating a vertical area in any story of not more than twenty percent (20%) of the area of the front of that story, shall be exempt from the front yard restrictions of this chapter on buildings not nearer the street line than ten feet.
(3) Steps and landings below the level of the first floor, and fences and walls not more than two feet six inches high above the grade level, may be located between the building line and the street line. No fence running parallel with the sidewalk shall be erected or maintained except with specific permission of the Planning and Zoning Commission.
(1973 Code Section 151.17; Ord. 1976-28. Passed 5-19-76.)