(a) For every building erected there shall be a side yard along each lot line other than a street line or rear line.
(b) The side yards shall be grassy or landscaped areas covering at least twenty percent (20%) of the average width of the lot. The least dimension of a nonresidential side yard shall be not less than five feet: residential lots shall have at least fifteen foot side yards on each side of the dwelling unit.
Side yards shall be landscaped. Such landscaping shall include shrubs or flowers for maximum heights of two feet six inches above the grade level from the right of way line to a distance of fifty feet therefrom. From the fifty foot line to the building line there is no maximum height limit to landscaping.
(c) The side yards provided for herein shall be open for their full required dimensions from the ground to the sky, unobstructed except for the ordinary projections of window sills, belt courses, cornices, and other ornamental features, to the extent of not over six inches, except that within five feet of the street wall a cornice may project not over three feet into the yard, and provided that if the building is not more than two and one-half stories in height the cornice may project not over two and one-half feet in the yard.
(d) A building and any accessory building erected on the same lot shall for the purpose of side yard requirements, be treated as a single building.
(Ord. 1997-20. Passed 2-19-97.)