The following features may extend into any required
front, side or rear yard, not to exceed the extent specified:
A. Cornices, awnings, belt courses, eaves, roof overhangs
or similar features may extend one foot.
B. Any terrace, deck, portico, patio, roof over open platform or unenclosed
porch not more than the height of the first floor entrance to the
building may extend six feet from the building, except that no such
terrace, deck, portico, patio, roof over platform or unenclosed porch
shall project more than three feet into any required side yard nor
nearer than three feet to any side lot line. Any terrace, deck, portico,
patio roof over open platform or unenclosed porch which is higher
than 18 inches above grade shall be secured around its perimeter,
exclusive of openings for ingress and egress, with railing which is
three feet.
[Amended 1-14-2013 by L.L. No. 1-2013]
C. Chimneys may extend two feet.
D. Overhanging bay windows not exceeding in width an aggregate of 50%
of the width of the building may extend two feet from the building
wall, except that no such bay window shall extend nearer than three
feet to any side lot line. An outside stairway may extend three feet
into a required side setback as long as it is at least two feet from
a side property line.
[Amended 1-14-2013 by L.L. No. 1-2013]
Lot frontage shall be measured along the narrower
boundary line of a lot abutting a street, measured completely within
the lot along the shortest straight line, contiguous to the front
lot line at one or more points and to the side lot lines, in the case
of interior lots. In the case of a corner lot, the lot frontage shall
be the narrowest boundary line abutting a street and shall be measured
completely within the lot along the shortest straight line, contiguous
to the front lot line at one or more points and generally parallel
to the abutting street. In the case of a curvilinear or irregular
boundary line abutting a street, frontage shall be measured along
a straight line completely within the lot, rather than along any arc
or irregular boundary line.
Lot depth shall be measured as the mean horizontal
distance between the front and rear lot lines, measured completely
with the lot and in the general direction of the side lot lines or
perpendicular to the front lot lines.
Side setbacks shall be measured along a straight
line perpendicular to the side lot line to the nearest point of the
building wall.
The height of a structure shall be the vertical
distance measured from the average grade of the lot on which the structure
is located to the highest point of the structure.
The vertical distance measured from the average
level of the established center-line grade of the street adjacent
to the building lot measured at the front of the building to the highest
level of a flat or mansard roof or to the average height of a pitched,
gable, hip or gambrel roof.
The natural average grade shall be measured
perpendicular to the natural contour lines of the property within
the lot lines and shall be a result of an averaging of measurements
made at approximately twenty-five-foot intervals.