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ORDINANCE NO. 3286 BY ~r. Hurd Am Ordinance to amend Section 21 of Ordinance No. 1786. entitled "An Ordinance providing for the zoning or districting of the City of Lakewood and the regulation of the location, bulk, height end uses of buildings and other struc%ures and premises, and repealing Ordinance No. 1479", and to provide for ~he establishing of set-back lines in any use district. BE IT ORDAI~NED BY l~ COUNOIL OF T~l~ 0,ITY OF LAKEWOOD, STATE OF OHIO: Section 1. That Section 21 of Ordinance No. 1786 entitled "An Ordinance providing for the zoning o~ districting of the City of Lakewood and the regulation of ~he location, bulk, height and uses of buildiugs and other structures and premises, and repealing Ordi-A~ee No. 1479". which reads as folle~s. Section 21. FRONT YARDS$ BUILDING LINES - For the purpose of establishing front yards and for the purpose of further regulating side yards and the height of buildings near the street line. building lines, as set forth on ~he building line map which accompanies the ordinance a~d is hereby declared to be part hereof, are hereby es- tablished. ~he map designations and the map designation rules which accompany said map are hereby declared part thereof. Between a building line and the street line no building or portion of a building, e~tending above the curb level, may be erected. le RESIDENOE DISTRICTS - In a Class la or lb district where the location or,he building line is not prescribed on the building line map. building lines are estab- lished as follews: (a) Om a street frentage on either side of a street where ~0%or more of such frontage bet~reen ~wo intersecting streets, but excluding the frontage along the side line of a corner lot or outside such Class la or lb district, is improved with buildings that are set back from tho street line or where all the buildings though occupying less ~han 50%hut more than 20% of such frontage are set back from the street line. the align- ment of the existing buildings shall be the building line. Minor irregularities in such all,merit of existing buildings may be disregarded by the Board of Zoning Appeals in defining and applying this building line regulation or said Board may. when in its opinion the general purpose and intent of this paragraph will be better served there- by. determine that the average distance the existing buildings are back from the street line. either for such entire frontage or for any part thereof~ shall be the building line. (b) ~ a etree~c frontage on either side of a street between two intersecting streets, but excluding the frontage along the side line of a corner lot or outside of such Class la or lb district, where not more than20%of such frontage is ~w?rovedwith buildings that are built at the street line and where the provisions of paragraph (1) of this section do not create a building line, the distance of the building line back f~emthe street line shall be 20%. of the average or normal depth of the lots having their front lines along such street frontage but such distance back from the street line need not be more than 30 feet. Where in any portion of such street frontage there are lots of markedly less depth than the normal, the Board of Zoning Appeals in defining and applying this building line regulation, may, when in its opinion the general purpose and intent of this paragraph will be better served ~hereby, divide such street frontage into Sections for the application of the above 20%building line requirement. (o) Along the side line of a corner lot the distance of the building back from the street line shall be 10% of the average width of such lot, but such distance back from the street line need not be more than 10 feet. No buildinE line shall be re- quired along the side line of a corner lot where the rear of such lo~ adjoins a street ~rontage along which no building line is required by ~hie ordinance. 2, APPEALS -Whenever any parcel of land now separately owned ~dwhichwas so ~w~ed prier to the passage of this ordinance is of such rsstrieted area that it ca~ct be appropriately improved without building Beyond the building line established by this