Front Yard and Setback Lines.

(1)

In any residence district, where forty (40) percent or more of the property fronting upon one side of a street between two (2) intersecting streets, and located in such district, has been improved with buildings at the time of the passage of this zoning ordinance and a front yard of greater depth than the minimum, or of less depth than the minimum, required by the schedules of area regulations has been provided for the majority of such buildings, such minimum shall not control; however, no building or structure hereafter erected or altered in such residence district shall be placed nearer to the street line than the average depth of front yard established by such majority, except that the minimum depth of front yard for a dwelling on a lot between two (2) adjoining lots, on each of which a building exists at the time of the passage of this zoning law (on December 13, 1938), shall be the average of the depths of front yards observed by such buildings. Where less than forty (40) percent of such property has been improved with buildings, or where dwellings do not front upon a street, the minimum depth of the front yard shall be as required by the schedules of area regulations.

(2)

For a corner lot in a residential district, the minimum depth of yard along either frontage shall be the depth of yard which is required along the same street for the next adjacent lot unless separated therefrom by an intersecting street; provided, nothing in this requirement shall be so interpreted as to reduce the buildable width of a corner lot of record at the time of the passage of this zoning ordinance to less than two-thirds of the total width of the lot or to less than twenty-six (26) feet in a residence district.

(Code 1974, ch. 23, app. B; Ord. No. 79-9, 11-13-1979)