Except as otherwise provided for by this chapter:
A. No building, structure or land shall be used or occupied and no building
or structure or part thereof shall be erected, moved, altered or placed
unless in conformity with the regulations for the district in which
it is located.
B. No building or structure shall hereafter be erected or altered to
exceed the height; to accommodate or house a greater number of families;
to occupy a greater percentage of the lot area; or to have narrower
or smaller front, side and rear yards, other than as specified herein
for the district in which such building or use is located.
No part of a yard or other open space required about a building
or structure for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this
chapter shall be included as a part of a yard or other open space
similarly required for another building or structure.
The height of a structure shall not exceed the maximum established
for each district, except that:
A. Structures such as elevator and stair bulkheads, roof water tanks,
cooling towers and penthouses or other enclosed structures for mechanical
equipment may exceed the maximum building height otherwise permitted
in the district, provided that they occupy, in the aggregate, no more
than 20% of the roof area; are not in excess of 15 feet in height
above the roof upon which they are located; and are set back a minimum
of 15 feet from any exterior wall.
B. Flagpoles; radio and television antennas, masts or aerials; or communication dishes, horns, parabolic reflectors or other similar devices may exceed the maximum building height otherwise permitted in the district, provided that they extend not more than 25 feet above the roof upon which they are located; occupy, in the aggregate, no more than 10% of the roof area; and are so located that if they were to fall, they would fall entirely within property lines. The foregoing provisions of this subsection shall not apply to telecommunications facilities, structures or devices regulated pursuant to §
250-73 of this chapter, which shall be governed by that section.
C. A spire, steeple, belfry, dome, chimney, tower, turret, weather vane
or lightning rod, or other similar structure, or combination thereof,
may exceed the maximum building height otherwise permitted in the
district, provided that the Planning Board finds that such structure,
item or feature, or combination thereof, would enhance the aesthetics
and architecture of the building and would be compatible with the
architecture of adjacent or nearby structures, and provided further
that no such structure, item or feature, or combination thereof, shall
occupy, in the aggregate, in excess of 20% of the roof area; have
any sign bearing lettering or commercial advertisement of any kind;
except for a spire, steeple or similar structure on a place of worship,
exceed the height limit by more than 15 feet; or have a width, when
viewed from any horizontal perspective, that is more than 30% of the
width of the facade of the building to which it is closest.
D. If the Planning Board finds that a parapet wall, pitched roof, cornice,
or similar architectural feature would enhance the aesthetics and
architecture of the building, it may permit such feature to be erected
to a height not in excess of six feet in height above the roof upon
which such feature is located.
The storage, sale or abandonment of wastepaper, rags, scrap
metal, discarded materials or the collecting, storage, salvaging or
abandonment of machinery or vehicles not in operating condition shall
constitute a junkyard and is a violation of this chapter.