3286 - 32 Amend Sect 21 of Ord 1786 - Zoning & districting

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-2- shall section, the Council ~ay, on application in a specific case after public notice and hearing, authorize the eon~truction of a building beyond said building line to an extent necessary to secure an appropriate improvement of such parcel of land. On application in a specific case, the Council may after public notice and hearing issue a conditional permit for the construction of a building beyond the building line established by this section, provided the public health, safety, convenience or general welfare will not thereby be injuriously affected or the appropriate use of neighboring proper~y seriously injured. be mended to read as follows~ Sec%ion 21. FRONT YARDS, BUILDING LINES -~For the purpose of establishing front yards a~d for the purpose of further regulating side yards and the heights of build- ings near the street line, building lines,as set forth on the Building line map which accompanies this ordiuance and is hereby declared to be part hereof, are hereby established. The map designations and the map designation ruleswhich accompany said map are hereby declared par~ thereof. Between a building line and the street line no building or portion of a building, extending above the curb level, may be erected. 1. ANY USE DISTRICT (a) Where, on any street frontage in any use district, a specific building line is indicted on "The Building Line Map of Lakewood" which accomp=~es this ordinance and is hereby made a part hereof, such Building line shall be the front yard line for that street frontage. (b) Where a specific building line ia indica~ed on the building line maps, but where 60% or more of such frontage, between two intersecting streets is ~w~.roved with buildings that are nearer the street line than such specified line, the ground level story of a building may be eX%ended cut ~o the average line of the existing Buildings cn et~her side thereof. 2. RESIDENOE DISTRICTS - In a Class la or lb district where ~he location of the building line is not prescribed on the building line map, building lines are emtab- lished as foll~ws~ (a) On a street frontage on either side of a street where 50%, or more of suchfront- age between ~wo intersecting streets, but excluding the frontage along the side line of & corner lot or outside such Class la or lb district, is improved with buildings %hat are set back from the street line or where all the buildings though occupying less than50%butmore than 20%of such frontage are set back from the street line, the alA~-~ent of the existing Buildings eh~ll~,b~ithe:jl~ilding lines Minor irregularities in such ali~ment 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 a~d intent of this para- graph will be better served thereby, determine that the average distance the exist- ing buildings are back from the street line, either for such entire frontage or for ~any par~ thereof, shall be the building lines (b) cna street frontage on either side cf a street between t~vo intersecting streets, but excluding the frontage along the side line of a ecrnar lot or outside of such Class la or lb district where not more than20%cf such frontage is i~provedwith 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 from the 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 rrna the street line need not be more than 30 feet. Where in any portion of such street frontage there are lots of markedly leas 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 thereby, divide such street frontage into sections for the application of ~he above 20% build- ing line requirement.