no building or structure shall be erected, reconstructed or structurally altered, nor shall any building, structure or land be used, for any purpose other than is permitted in the district in which such building, structure or land is located;

no building or structure shall be erected, reconstructed or structurally altered to exceed a height or bulk limit or setback requirement herein established for the district in which such building or structure is located;

no lot area shall be reduced or diminished so that the yards or other open spaces shall be smaller than prescribed by this ordinance;

nor shall a yard or open space provided about any building or structure for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this ordinance be considered as providing a yard or open space for any other building or structure.

All existing dwelling units located in a business district, either on the effective date of this ordinance or in the future, may be used as a Dwelling, Single-Family Attached (DSFA) or Dwelling, Single-Family Detached (DSFD) and a business. Home occupations in business districts must meet the following requirements:

Home Occupations in all residential districts must meet the following requirements.

Height limitations are established to ensure that buildings and structures shall not unnecessarily impact upon the privacy, views, or desirability of development of adjoining sites. Unless otherwise noted, the height limit for all buildings is 35 feet.

The height limits which may be enacted in this ordinance for the various districts shall not apply to church spires, belfries, cupolas, or domes not used for human habitation, nor to chimneys, ventilators, skylights, water tanks, parapet walls, cornices, or necessary mechanical appurtenances usually carried above the roof level, provided that such features are limited to that height necessary for their proper functioning.

No building or structure shall be designed, erected, altered, used, or occupied, and no use shall be operated in any zoning district unless the off-street parking facilities herein required are provided. Off-street parking requirements do not apply to the land in the CBD district. Off-street parking facilities in excess of the amounts heretofore required need not be provided or maintained for land, buildings, structures or uses actually used, occupied and operated on the effective date of these regulations. In the event that after the effective date of this ordinance, land, buildings, structures or uses are enlarged, expanded, or changed, the land, buildings, structures and uses hereby excluded shall not be used, occupied, or operated unless there is provided, for any increment of such land, building, structure or use, at least the amount of off-street parking facilities that would be required hereunder if the increment were a separate tract of land, or a separate building, structure or use.

The provision for and maintenance of off-street parking facilities herein required shall be the joint and several responsibility of the operator and owner of the land, building, structure or use on which is located the use for which off-street parking facilities are required.

Each off-street parking space shall be not less than nine feet by 18 feet, exclusive of access or maneuvering area, ramps and other appurtenances. Except as otherwise permitted under a special plan for location or sharing of facilities, off-street parking facilities shall include adequate maneuvering room and shall be located on the lot on which the use for which they are provided is located, with the following exceptions; that maneuvering room will not have to be located on the same lot of one-and two-family dwellings. Off-street parking facilities, including interior landscaped islands, peninsulas and median, may occupy a portion of the required front yard, provided the following: 1) parking or drive is at least 10 feet from the lot line; 2) the total front yard area (length of lot frontage times the required setback) is not reduced. No parking space shall be nearer than 10 feet to any adjacent residential lot line, except that the driveway for a single-family dwelling or duplex unit may extend to the side yard if it is to have a rear or side entry garage.

Off-street parking facilities shall be constructed, maintained and operated in accordance with the following specifications:

The off-street parking facilities required of two or more uses located on the same lot may be combined and used jointly, provided, however, that where the facilities are combined and used by two or more uses, the off-street parking facilities shall be adequate in area to provide ninety percent of the sum total of the facilities required of all such uses.

The minimum requirements for off-street parking facilities are found in Subsection I hereof. The classifications of uses enumerated in the table in Subsection H [Subsection I] are general and are intended to include all similar uses. Where the classification of use is not determinable from said table, the City Manager shall determine the appropriate classification.

Off-street parking facilities may be located on a separate site from the lot on which the use is located, provided such separate lot is not separated from the primary use lot by a street and is no further than 300 feet. This distance shall be measured by a straight line from the nearest point of the lot on which the use is located to the nearest point of the separated off-street parking facilities.

[Reserved.]

Editor’s note–The ordinance did not contain a subsection H.

The requirements for off-street parking facilities in all districts shall be governed by the following table. Each fractional parking space required by the table shall be rounded up to the next whole number.

Truck loading facilities as hereinafter provided shall be required in all districts for buildings or structures containing uses of a nonresidential nature.

No building or structure shall be designed, erected, altered, used or occupied unless the off-street truck loading facilities herein required are provided. Off-street truck loading facilities in excess of the amounts heretofore required need not be provided or maintained for buildings or structures actually used, occupied, and operated on the effective date of this ordinance. In the event that such buildings or structures are enlarged, expanded, or changed, the buildings and structures hereby excluded shall not be used, occupied, or operated unless there is provided, for any increment of such buildings or structures, at least the amount of off-street truck loading facilities that would be required hereunder if the increment were a separate building or structure.

The provision for and maintenance of the off-street truck loading facilities required shall be the joint and several responsibility of the operator of the use and the owner of the land upon which the use requiring the facilities is located.

Off-street truck loading facilities shall be constructed, maintained and operated in accordance with the following specifications:

Requirements for the provision of off-street truck loading facilities with respect to two or more uses may be satisfied by the permanent allocation of the requisite number of spaces for each use in a common truck loading facility, cooperatively established and operated; provided, however, that the total number of spaces designated is not less than the sum of the individual requirements unless, in the opinion of the City Manager, a lesser number of spaces will be adequate, taking into account the respective times of usage of the truck loading facilities by the individual users, the character of the merchandise, and related factors. In order to eliminate a multiplicity of individual facilities, to conserve space where space is at a premium and to promote orderly development generally, the City Manager is hereby authorized to plan and group off-street truck loading facilities cooperatively for a number of uses requiring such facilities within close proximity to one another in a given area, and especially in the central business district, in such manner as to obtain a maximum of efficiency and capacity, provided consent thereto is obtained from the participants in the cooperative plan.

The following minimum truck loading spaces shall be provided in all districts for structures containing the uses enumerated in Subsection A above.

On any lot or tract of land subdivided or platted before the date of adoption of this ordinance, such lot or tract being of record at the time, a dwelling, single-family detached (DSFD) may be erected even though the lot is of less area than required by the regulations relating to area in the district in which it is located; provided, however, in any event, the combined area of the dwelling and accessory buildings shall not cover more than 40 percent of the total area of the lot.