In order to provide adequate open spaces for access of light and circulation of air, to facilitate the prevention and fighting of fires, to prevent undue concentration of population, to maintain the traditional character and integrity of the Town of Berne, and to lessen congestion on streets, no building or structure or premises shall be erected, altered, or used except in accordance with the standards set forth in this chapter.[1]
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Editor's Note: The Schedule of Uses is included at the end of this chapter.
The following projections into required yards may be permitted:
A. 
Open fire escapes: four feet into side or rear yards.
B. 
Awnings or movable canopies: six feet into any yard.
C. 
Cornices, eaves and other similar architectural features: three feet into any yard.
The height limitations of this chapter shall not apply to:
A. 
Churches, schools, hospitals, water towers and other public and semipublic buildings, provided that for each foot by which the height permitted in the district is exceeded, the side, front, and rear yards required in the district shall be each increased an additional foot.
B. 
Farm silos, church spires, belfries, cupolas and domes not for human occupancy, monuments, observation towers, transmission towers, chimneys, smokestacks, derricks, flagpoles, radio towers, masts and aerials, ventilators, skylights, water tanks and necessary appurtenances usually carried above roof level. Such features, however, shall be erected only to such height as is necessary to accomplish the purpose they are to serve.
A residential lot of required or larger-than-required size as set forth in this chapter shall not be reduced in size for transfer of ownership if such lot so subdivided will form two or more lots which shall not be in compliance with the requirements for the minimum average residential density for the district in which such lot or lots are situated.
A. 
Notwithstanding provisions for front yards elsewhere in these regulations, on streets with less than fifty-foot rights-of-way or where the right-of-way line is not known, the front yard requirement shall be measured from the center line of the existing roadway, and 25 feet shall be added to the front yard requirement.
B. 
Measurements of minimum yard dimensions shall be taken from the foundation.