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154.51 HEIGHT MODIFICATIONS


154.51 HEIGHT MODIFICATIONS
 
154.51.00           HEIGHT LIMITATIONS NOT APPLICABLE
 
                           The height limitations stipulated elsewhere in this Ordinance shall not apply to the following:
 
154.51.00.01      Farm building, architectural features, etc.
 
                           Barns, silos, or other farm buildings or structures on farms, church spires, belfries, cupolas and domes, monuments, water towers, fire and hose towers, observations towers, transmission towers, windmills, chimneys, smokestacks, flagpoles, radio towers, masts and aerials, parapet walls extending not more than four (4) feet above the limiting height of the building.
 
154.51.00.02      Places of public assembly
 
                           Places of public assembly in church, schools, and other permitted public and semi-public buildings, provided that these are located on the first floor of such buildings and provided that, for each three (3) feet by which the height otherwise permitted in the district, its side and rear yards shall be increased in width or depth by an additional foot over the side and rear yards required for the highest building otherwise permitted in the district.
 
154.51.00.03      Elevator, penthouse, water tanks, etc.
 
                           Bulkheads, elevator penthouse, water tanks, monitors and scenery lofts, provided no linear dimensions of any such structure exceed fifty (50) percent of the corresponding street lot line frontage; or to towers and monuments, fire towers, hose towers, cooling towers and grain elevators, gas holders or other structures, where the manufacturing process requires a greater height.
 
154.51.01           MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
 
                           All such structures above the heights otherwise permitted in the district shall not occupy more than twenty-five (25) percent of the area of the lot and shall be distant not less than fifty (50) feet in all parts from every lot line not a street lot line.


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