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house is proposed to be constructed adjoins land on which there is an existing apartment house development or developments, the Planning and Zoning Commission may in its discretion consider the existing apartment house development and the proposed apartment house development as a single unit and may reduce the requirements as to lot area and frontage in the proposed apartment house development, providing the total area and total street frontage, as the case may be, of the proposed development and the adjacent development meet the above requirements as to area and street frontage." Sec. 9. Section 16 of said Ordinance No. 159 is hereby amended to read as follows: "Sec. 16. Side Yards in Residence Districts. In a Class U-1, U-2, or U-3 District, for every building erected there shall be a side yard along each lot line other than a f rout line or rear line. Each single family dwelling, each two-family dwelling and each apartment house shall be deemed a separate building and shall have side yards as above prescribed except that two single family dwellings may be attached as a double house and be considered a single building in any area other than an area within a portion of a Class U-1 District that is within a Class A-1 District. In a Class U-1 or U-2 District, the least dimension of the side yard shall be not less than 5 feet and at least 30% of the average width of the lot occupied by the main building shall be devoted to side yards, but not less than 15 feet nor more than 25 feet in width need be so devoted. The requirements for side yards for apartment buildings shall be as prescribed in Section 16 (a), as follows: "Sec. 16 (a). Yards for Apartment Development. Apartment buildings shall, be planned and arranged in a relationship to each other and to the surrounding lot line so as to provide privacy, light and view for each suite and so as to form a coordinated arrangement of buildings and open space. In order to review and evaluate the site plans, preliminary and final site development plans for every proposed apartment house project shall be submitted to the Planning & Zoning Commission by the developer in aeeo.rdance with the procedures established in Section 30.9 of Ordinance No. 159, as amended by Ordinance No. 763. "For all yards, the space between any two apartment buildings and the distances between any building and the side or rear lines of the lot shall vary according to the length and height of the buildings. The minimum distance between any two buildings, designated as buildings A and B, their length as Z and their height as H, shall be as determined by the., formula: Minimum Distance = 7~A ~ LB ~ HA ~ HB 3.5 , The minimum distance between a side or rear lot line and any building, designated as A, shall be as determined by the formula: Minimum distance = I,A + HA 3.5.