The district regulations set forth in this article qualify or supplement, as the case may be, the district regulations appearing elsewhere in this ordinance.

A.

Public, semi-public or public service buildings, hospitals, institutions or schools, when permitted in a district, may be erected to a height not exceeding 60 feet. Churches and temples may be erected to a height not exceeding 75 feet if the building is set back from each yard line at least one foot for each foot of additional building height above the height limit otherwise provided in the district in which the building is located.

B.

Single-family and multiple-family dwellings may be increased in height by not more than ten feet when the side and rear yards are increased over the yard requirements of the district in which they are located by not less than ten feet, but they shall not exceed three stories in height.

C.

Chimneys, cooling towers, elevator bulkheads, fire towers, monuments, stacks, stage towers or scenery lofts, tanks, water towers, ornamental towers and spires, church steeples, radio towers or necessary mechanical appurtenances, may be erected to a height in accordance with existing or hereafter adopted ordinances of the city.

(Ord. No. 234, § 16-1, 8-2-71)

A.

Accessory building may be built in a required rear yard but such accessory buildings shall not occupy more than 30 per cent of the required rear yard except as otherwise provided in this ordinance.

B.

No accessory building shall be used for dwelling purposes except as otherwise provided in this ordinance.

(Ord. No. 234, § 16-2, 8-2-71; Ord. No. 1005, 4-14-14)

Every part of a required yard shall be open to the sky, unobstructed, except for accessory buildings in a rear yard, and except for the ordinary projections of sills, belt courses, cornices and ornamental features projections not to exceed 18 inches. Roofs and eaves may extend not more than 30 inches into a required yard.

(Ord. No. 234, § 16-3, 8-2-71)

Editor's note— Ord. No. 1000, adopted November 12, 2013, amended the Code by repealing former § 16-4 in its entirety. Former § 16-4 pertained to fences, and derived from Ord. No. 234, adopted August 2, 1971; Ord. No. 505, adopted May 31, 1988; Ord. No. 791, adopted May 27, 20013; and Ord. No. 951, adopted May 3, 2010.

Open or lattice-enclosed fire escapes, fireproof outside stairways and balconies opening upon fire towers projecting into a rear yard not more than five feet, and the ordinary projections of chimneys and flues shall be permitted.

(Ord. No. 234, § 16-5, 8-2-71)

No building exceeding 2½ stories or 35 feet shall be erected within 750 feet of any airport, landing field or landing strip.

(Ord. No. 234, § 16-6, 8-2-71)

Buildings that are to be used for storage purposes only may exceed the maximum number of stories that are permitted in the district in which they are located, but such buildings shall not exceed the number of feet of building height permitted in such districts.

(Ord. No. 234, § 16-7, 8-2-71)

Temporary buildings that are used in conjunction with construction work only may be permitted in any district during the period of construction, but such temporary buildings shall be removed upon completion of the construction work.

(Ord. No. 234, § 16-8, 8-2-71)

Two or more contiguous nonconforming lots of record may be resubdivided into the same or lesser number of lots provided that none of such lots after such resubdivision will have an area less than that assigned to district.

(Ord. No. 234, § 16-9, 8-2-71)

No billboard shall be constructed in any zoning district created by the city, without first being approved by the city council of the city. The city council shall be under no obligation to grant such approval. However, when granting such approval, the city council of the city may impose such conditions and restrictions upon such approval as the city council may deem appropriate.

(Ord. No. 695, 4-6-98)