East Earl Township City Zoning Code
ARTICLE XIX
Building Lines and Yard Requirements
§ 450-147 Building lines along public and private streets established.
Building lines are hereby established on all existing and proposed public and private roads within East Earl Township. Except as provided in other sections of this Zoning Ordinance, no buildings or structures shall be placed between the building line and the right-of-way line of a public or private road. In the case of a proposed public or private street, the building line and the street classification shall be shown on the subdivision plan. Where the right-of-way for the street or streets upon which any lot abuts is less than 50 feet in width, the front yard depth and the width of the side yard abutting the street shall be measured from a line parallel to 25 feet from the center line of the street.
C.
Building lines on existing and any new local roads.
(1)
Distance. The building line on all local roads shall be established as:
(a)
Fifty feet from the center line of the existing or proposed road if the road is intended to accommodate through traffic; or
(b)
Twenty-five feet from the edge of the cartway if the road is internal to a neighborhood or development and is not intended to accommodate access beyond the immediate neighborhood or development.
(2)
For the purposes of applying the standards, all public and private roads not considered arterial or collector roads shall be considered local roads.
§ 450-148 Additional setback modifications and requirements.
A.
Front yard requirements along developed road frontages. When two adjacent principal buildings within 100 feet of a property are located at less than the required setback, the following requirements shall apply:
(1)
The average of the setbacks on the abutting lots shall become the required minimum front setback for the property; provided, however, the setback be no less than 30 feet from the abutting street right-of-way line.
(2)
In no instance shall the setback for the proposed building be greater than 30 feet behind the front wall of the principal building on the adjacent lot.
B.
Additional front yard requirements.
(1)
The front yard setback requirement for a flag lot shall not be located and measured within the "flag pole" portion of the lot, but shall be measured from the property line which initially angles away from the "flag pole" portion of the lot.
(2)
An accessory structure shall not be erected within any front yard, nor shall an existing accessory structure be substantially altered within any required front yard.
(3)
Parking shall not be permitted in front yards in residential and neighborhood commercial districts except on paved driveways. Turnarounds shall be considered as part of a driveway.
C.
Additional side yard setback requirements.
(1)
On corner lots, two front yards shall be required for such sides facing the street rights-of-way.
(2)
No side yard setback shall be required where two garages are designed to abut in semidetached dwellings. Side yard setbacks shall not apply for detached garages that provide off-street parking for semidetached and townhouse dwellings where access to said garages is via an alley.
(3)
Buildings and/or structures accessory to a nonresidential use shall not be located within the required front yard and shall be located no less than 15 feet to any lot line.
D.
Interior yards: open space between principal structures.
(1)
When front to front, rear to rear, or front to rear, parallel principal structures shall have 50 feet between faces for one story in height, plus five feet for each additional story. If the front or rear faces are obliquely aligned, the above distances may be decreased by as much as 10 feet at one end if increased by similar or greater distances at the other end. Where service drives or bank grade changes or collector walks are introduced in this space, the distance between structures shall be at least 50 feet.
(2)
End to end, a distance of 25 feet between principal structures for a one-story structure plus five additional feet for each story in excess of one.
(3)
End to front, or end to rear, a distance of 30 feet between principal structures for each one story structure plus five feet additional for each story in excess of one.
(4)
When adjacent principal structures differ in the number of stories, the required distance between structures shall be calculated on the taller of the structures.
§ 450-149 Structures exempted from all setback requirements.
A.
The setback regulations do not apply to:
(1)
School bus shelters, cornices, eaves, chimneys, steps, canopies, and similar extensions, and uncovered ground-level patios and decks immediately abutting the building, provided that the patios or decks do not extend more than eight feet from the front wall of the building, but do apply to covered porches and patios.
(2)
Open fire escapes.
(3)
Minor utility structures, articles of ornamentation, or decoration.
(4)
Fences, hedges, and retaining walls.
(5)
Fireplace and chimney components extending beyond the wall of the structure.
B.
The above exemptions shall not encroach upon any applicable clear sight triangle requirement.