No part of a yard provided for any building or structure on
any lot for the purpose of complying with the provisions of this title
shall be included or considered as a part of a yard required by this
title for a building or structure on any other lot.
(Ord. 98 § 12.07.01, 1974)
In any residential zone where more than fifty percent of the
lots on one side of the street frontage in a block are occupied for
dwellings, multiple dwellings or hotels, fronting on the same street,
the average front yard of the occupied lots may be used to determine
the minimum required front yard for all lots on the same side of the
street frontage in such block. In no case shall such front yard established
by existing buildings be less than ten feet. Existing buildings located
on the rear half of a lot shall not be used in determining the average
front yard.
(Ord. 98 § 12.07.02, 1974)
On every through lot in a residential zone there shall be a
front yard on both street frontages as required in the zone in which
the frontage is classified. Exceptions to this shall be all lots in
the R-3 zone, and lots in the R-1 and R-2 zones upon which rights
of vehicular access over the rear property line have been relinquished
by recorded document, and when the rear yard of such through lot does
not abut the front yard of an adjacent lot.
(Ord. 98 § 12.07.03, 1974; Ord. 265 § 1, 1981)
Dwellings erected on the rear of a corner lot shall have a front
yard facing the side street equal to the side yard adjacent to the
side street as required in the zone in which the lot is located.
(Ord. 98 § 12.07.04, 1974)
Each residential lot shall maintain a rear yard area consistent
with the minimum rear yard dimension required for the underlying zone.
For corner lots, such rear yard area may be opposite the front yard
or exterior side yard, but in either case, no permit shall be issued
which would cause any residential property which has an interior yard
meeting the rear yard requirement to be diminished to less than the
standard rear yard setback.
(Ord. 505 § 3, 1994)
A. The
yard requirements of this title shall not be construed as preventing
the projection into any yard of the following:
1. Cornices,
canopies, belt courses and similar architectural features to a distance
not to exceed two feet;
2. Fire
escapes required by law or ordinance not to exceed four and one-half
feet;
3. Landings,
unroofed porch slabs, steps and walls retaining earth;
4. Bay
windows having a maximum projection of two feet and any one bay window
a maximum length of twelve feet;
5. Open
wire or open metal fences not over four feet in height;
6. Masonry
walls or solid fences not exceeding three feet in height.
B. Nothing
in this section shall be construed to prohibit the erection of a fence
or wall enclosing an electric utility building or structure as required
by an applicable law or regulation;
C. In
manufacturing zones, fences constructed of material approved by the
city council may be erected to a height of not more than eight feet
from the surface of the ground; provided, that such fences erected
along that portion of the property fronting upon any street shall
be set back not less than two feet from the property line and planted
to vegetation.
(Ord. 98 § 12.07.05, 1974)
Parking or storage of business-related equipment, materials
and tools is prohibited upon any residential zoned property unless
it is within an enclosed building in a manner where it is not visible
from the public right-of-way or other public or private property.
Exempt from this prohibition is a vehicle regularly used to transport
an occupant to and from such person's employment.
(Ord. 390 § 3, 1988)