Dimensional standards
Lot
Density
Height & bulk
Housing
Uses
Permitted by right11
Conditional / special use7
Extracted standards
6 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Height
- Habitable basement/attic counted as story
In measuring height, a habitable basement or attic shall be counted as a story, provided that a story in a sloping roof, the area of which story at a height of four (4) feet above the floor does not exceed two-thirds of the floor area of the story immediately below it and which does not contain an independent apartment, shall be counted as a half story.
Other
- SetbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. from primary highways50 ft
In all residential and industrial zones, there shall be a fifty-foot setback from primary highways; otherwise a twenty-five-foot setback of buildings and structures.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. buildings in rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.30 pct
On lots occupied by dwellings, not more than thirty (30) percent of the rear yard may be occupied by one-story buildings of accessory use.
- Rear yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. reduction for shallow lots1 pct per ft
In any zone of lots less than one hundred (100) feet deep, the rear yard may be reduced one (1) percent for each foot that the depth of the lot is less than one hundred (100) feet.
- Side yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates. reduction for narrow lots2 inches per ft
For each foot by which a lot of official record at the time of the enactment of this chapter is less than the minimum width required under this chapter, two (2) inches may be deducted from each side yard; provided, that no side yard shall be less than four (4) feet.
- Projections into yards
Steps or stoops not exceeding twenty-four (24) square feet in area, eaves, cornices, window sills and belt courses may project into any required yard.
From the ordinance
In all A residence zones, the minimum area of any lot shall be seven thousand five hundred (7,500) square feet. The maximum height for any building shall be thirty-five (35) feet, and no building may be more than two and one-half (2½) stories in height.