Celoron Village City Zoning Code
ARTICLE V
General Provisions
§ 210-18 Access to public street.
For the purpose of discouraging the need for new public roadways, every building shall be constructed or erected upon a lot or parcel of land which abuts upon a public street. However, for those parcels which do not abut a public highway, a permanent easement to a public street shall be required upon which a private road may be located. The municipality shall not be responsible for assuming any private road as a municipal road.
§ 210-19 Contiguous parcels.
When two or more parcels of land, each of which lacks adequate area and dimension to qualify for a permitted use under the requirements of the use district in which they are located, are contiguous and are held in one ownership, they shall be used as one lot for such use.
§ 210-20 Corner lots.
Both street sides of a corner lot shall be treated as front yards in the application of bulk and area requirements.
§ 210-21 Height.
The height limitation of this chapter shall not apply to church spires, belfries, cupolas, penthouses, and domes, not used for human occupancy; nor to chimneys, ventilators, skylights, windmills, water tanks, bulkheads, similar features, and necessary mechanical appurtenances usually carried above the roof level. Such features, however, shall be erected only to such height as is necessary to accomplish the purpose they are to serve and shall not exceed in cross-sectional area 20% of the ground floor area of the building.
The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to prevent the erection above the building height limits of a parapet wall or cornice for ornament (and without windows) extending above such height limit not more than five feet.
§ 210-22 Existing substandard sized lots.
The minimum area requirements specified for each type of allowed use shall not prevent the construction of an allowable use on a substandard sized lot which existed and was officially recorded at the time of enactment of this chapter if the following conditions are met:
The substandard lot is not less than 75% of all of the applicable standards.
§ 210-23 Visibility of intersections.
For the purpose of maintaining sight lines and promoting traffic safety, on a corner lot in any district, no fence, wall, hedge, or other structure or planting more than three feet in height shall be erected or placed within the triangular areas formed by the interesting street edge lines and the imaginary straight line down between the points 50 feet from the intersecting street edge lines along the street edge lines.[1]
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Editor's Note: Original § 19-507 of the 1966 Code, Interpretation of permitted uses, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 12-9-2013 by L.L. No. 4-2013.
§ 210-24 Preserving yards, courts and open space.
Preservation of yards, courts and open space. Yards, courts and other open space shall be kept undeveloped in order to meet setback and coverage requirements of this chapter except as specified in Subsection B below.
Permitted obstructions. The following shall not be considered to be obstructions when located in the preserved yards, courts, and open space.
Open terraces, patios, open porches, awnings and canopies, chimneys, trellises, flag poles, open fire escapes, decks, balconies, and other similar uses which do not extend more than 40% of the required setback nor come closer to a lot boundary line by more than 40% of the required setback;
Bay windows, steps, chimneys, overhanging eaves and gutters and other similar uses shall not extend more than three feet from the principal structure nor come within two feet of any property lines;
Off-street parking space;
Accessory private garage-detached garages shall be constructed behind the front building line as long as area requirements are met.
Location. All yards, courts, and open space shall be located on the same lot as the structure for which the setback and area requirements are required.
§ 210-25 Established front yards.
In an existing neighborhood where structures are not set back from the edge of the road and the distance specified by this chapter, it shall be determined by the Code Enforcement Officer what appropriate setback will be permitted by new construction or by the alterations to existing structures in order to aesthetically blend with existing adjacent structures. The varied setback will be based on the average of the setbacks of the two adjacent structures minus up to five feet. Any variation requested which is in greater variation than that permitted by this rule will require an area variance.
§ 210-26 Number of buildings on lot (lot division).
Number of buildings on a lot. No more than one principal residential dwelling shall be located on a zoning lot. However, this shall not preclude the placement of an additional number of dwelling units on the same lot, if required area and setbacks are available for each additional dwelling unit. Upon sale of the additional dwelling units, the lots created must conform to Subsection B, Division of zoning lots, of this section.
Division of zoning lots. No zoning lot improved with a building or buildings shall hereafter be divided into two or more zoning lots and no portion of any zoning lot which is improved with a building or buildings shall be sold, unless all zoning lots resulting from each such division or sale and improved with a building or buildings shall be less conforming to all the bulk regulations of the zoning district in which the property is located.[1]
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Editor's Note: Original § 19-511 of the 1966 Code, Buffer zones, which immediately followed this section, was repealed 12-9-2013 by L.L. No. 4-2013.