No accessory building shall exceed ten percent (10%) of total lot area except where otherwise provided in this ordinance.

In shopping areas in the Commercial and Central Business Districts, the maximum number of kiosks and/or vendors’ carts shall be one per 20,000 square feet of gross useable floor area of shopping area.

No accessory building shall be constructed or placed upon a lot until construction of the principal building has commenced and no accessory building shall be used or occupied until the principal building is completed and is being used or occupied.

Exception. On properties greater than 5 acres an accessory building related to an agriculture activity may be constructed without a principal building.

No accessory building shall exceed the height of the principal building.

No accessory building shall be located forward of the principal building on the lot. Accessory buildings may be located in the required side or rear yard provided they are no closer than five (5) feet to any property line and ten (10) feet to the principal building.

Mechanical equipment such as air conditioning compressors, swimming pool pumps and filters, and similar devices may be installed in the side yard at a maximum height of sixty (60) inches above the ground level of the graded lot.

A detached garage is excluded from any accessory building maximum area restrictions, but shall be subject to the maximum lot coverage restrictions of the zoning district in which it is situated.

When a building line has been established by an approved plat and such line requires a greater or lesser front yard setback than is prescribed by this ordinance for the zoning district in which the building line is located, the required front yard shall comply with the building line so established by such plat. The Zoning Board of Adjustment may grant a variance to the required front yard as in other cases.

On through lots, a required front yard shall be provided on both streets. On through lots that are bounded on three (3) sides by streets, all yards between the main building and a street shall be regulated as front yards unless a front, side, and rear building line have been established by plat.

Garages, carports, and similar structures shall meet the required front yard setback applicable to the principal building.

Unobstructed line of sight provisions for safety shall be promoted and established by constructing or erecting fences, walls, screens, billboards, signs, structures, or maintaining growth of foliage in a manner to maintain a clear sight line for drivers of vehicles at elevations between thirty (30) inches and ten (10) feet above the average grade of the street. A triangular area of clear sight shall be developed by extending the side and front property lines at a corner lot for twenty-five (25) feet in each direction from their point of intersection and connecting these points with an imaginary line, thereby creating a triangle. In instances where streets do not intersect at approximate right angles, the Zoning Administrator shall have the authority to vary these requirements to provide safety for both vehicular and pedestrian traffic.

On corner lots platted after the effective date of this ordinance a required front yard shall be provided on one street and the required side yard on the other street.

When the side property line of any residential lot abuts the rear of another lot the side building line adjacent to the street shall be platted at the same depth as the adjacent front building line, unless an alley is constructed between the two (2) lots so as to provide a minimum fifteen (15) foot separation between the building lines.

Water standpipes and tanks, antennas, satellite dishes, church steeples, domes and spires may be erected in excess of the maximum height of the zoning district, provided each required yard shall be increased by one (1) additional foot for each foot that such structures exceed thirty-five (35) feet in height.

Utility poles and towers, sports lighting, antennas, satellite dishes, and water tanks which exceed thirty-five (35) feet in height, require approval by specific use permit.

Flagpoles and their structures shall be limited to a maximum height of thirty-five (35) feet except in the CBD, C, HC and I zoning districts where the maximum permitted height is fifty (50) feet.

The owner of such nonresidential property shall be responsible for, and shall build and maintain the required wall or fence on the property line dividing the property from the residential zoning district.

In instances where the Planning and Zoning Commission and the City Council finds this requirement to be better met by an irrigated landscape materials screen or by a buffer of not less than fifty (50) feet of open space, the same may be substituted for the screening wall.