Dimensional standards
Extracted standards
9 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
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- Minimum distance from lot line for accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building5 ft
provided it is not located closer than five (5) feet to any lot line
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building coverage of rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.30 pct
Accessory buildings which are not a part of the main building, although they may be connected by an open breezeway, may be constructed in a rear yard, provided such accessory building does not occupy more than thirty (30) percent of the area of the required rear yard
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. storage in front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Permitted accessory storage of a boat, boat trailer or camp trailer shall not be conducted in a front yard.
- Corner visibility maximum obstruction heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.3 ft
No sign, telephone booth, bus shelter, fence, wall, hedge, planting, or other obstruction to vision, extending to a height in excess of three (3) feet above the established street grade, shall be erected, planted, or maintained within the area of a corner lot that is included between the lines of the intersecting streets and a straight line connecting them at [a] point twenty (20) feet distant from the intersection of the street lines.
- Front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. average rule
Where the street frontage in a block, or within four hundred (400) feet of the lot in question, is partially built up, the minimum front yard for a new building shall be the average of the existing front yards on either side thereof in the same block with a variation of five (5) feet permitted
- Maximum front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. in residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.75 ft
no front yard in a residential district shall be less than twenty (20) feet or need be more than seventy-five (75) feet
- Minimum front yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. in residential districtZoning districtA mapped area with one set of rules, identified by a code like R-1 or B-2.20 ft
no front yard in a residential district shall be less than twenty (20) feet or need be more than seventy-five (75) feet
- Rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. projection allowance5 ft
Open fire escapes, outside stairways and balconies, and the ordinary projections of chimneys and flues may project into the required rear yard for a distance of not more than five (5) feet
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. for schools and public buildings in residential districts25 ft
The minimum depth of side yards for schools, libraries, churches, community houses, and other public and semipublic buildings in residential districts shall be twenty-five (25) feet
From the ordinance
There shall be a front yard on each street side of a corner lot in any district; provided, however, that the buildable width of a lot of record at the time of passage of this Ordinance shall not be reduced to less than thirty (30) feet.