12.1a To barns, silos or other farm buildings, provided these are not less than fifty (50) feet from every lot line, to church spires, belfries, cupolas and domes, monuments, water towers, fire and hose towers, masts, cellular communication towers and aerials; to parapet walls extending not more than four (4) feet above the limiting height of the building. However, if in the opinion of the Chief Building Official, such structures would adversely affect adjoining or adjacent properties, such greater height shall not be authorized except by the Board of Zoning Appeals.

12.1b To places of public assembly such as churches, schools and other permitted public and semi-public buildings not to exceed six (6) stories or seventy-five (75) feet, provided that for each foot by which the height of such building exceeds the maximum height otherwise permitted in the district, its side and rear yards shall be increased in width or depth by an additional foot over the side and rear yards required for the highest building otherwise permitted in the district.

12.1c To bulkheads, conveyors, derricks, elevators, penthouses, water tanks, monitors and scenery lofts; to monuments, fire towers, hose towers, cooling towers, grain elevators, gas holders or other structures, where the manufacturing process requires a greater height than the highest building otherwise permitted in the district.

12.1d To hospitals, provided that for each foot by which the height of such building exceeds the maximum height otherwise permitted in the district, its side and rear yards shall be increased in width and depth by an additional one-half (1/2) foot over the side and rear yards required for the highest building otherwise permitted in the district.

12.5a Along any district boundary line, an abutting side yard on a lot in the less restricted district shall have at least width equal to that required in the more restricted district; and in a "B-2" or "I" district, on a lot abutting a lot in any "R" district, such side yard for a building higher than the limiting height in such "R" district shall be increased by three (3) feet for each story over such limiting height.

12.5d No part of any accessory building shall be nearer a side street lot line than the least depth of any front yard required along such side street.

12.5f Structures or Projections into Side Yards May Be Permitted as Follows: Fences, plantings or walls not over six (6) feet above the average natural grade. Fire escapes three (3) feet from a side lot line. Bays and balconies not more than three (3) feet from the building, provided these projections are entirely within planes drawn from either main corner of the side wall, making an interior angle of twenty-two and one-half (22-1/2) degrees in the horizontal plane with the side wall. The sum of the lengths of such projection shall not exceed one-third (1/3) of the length of the side yard.

12.5g Chimneys, flues, belt courses, leaders, sill, pilasters, lintels, ornamental features, cornices, eaves, gutters and the like, into or over a required side yard not more than one and one-half (1-1/2) feet.

12.5h Terraces, steps, uncovered porches, stoops or similar features not higher than the elevation of the ground story of the building and distant three (3) feet from a side lot line.

12.6c Chimneys, flues, belt courses, leaders, sills, pilaster lintels, ornamental features, cornices, eaves, gutters and the like, into or over a required rear yard not more than one and one-half (1-1/2) feet.

12.6d Terraces, steps, uncovered porches or similar features not more than ten (10) feet into a required rear yard, nor closer than six (6) feet of an alley or within ten (10) feet of a rear lot line, nor an alley lot line or within six (6) feet of an accessory building. (Ord. 070-2020, 12-21-2020)