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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 ,f or every building erected there shall be a side yard along each lot line other than a f ront 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 ~7istrict, the least dimension of the side yard shall be not less than 5 feet and at least 30jo 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. For a hotel or motel in a U-3 district, the least dimension of each side yard shall be not less than 12% of the average width of the lot,but such least dimension need not exceed 12 feet, provided such least dimension shall in no case be less than one-sixth of the height of the building, nor less than 6 feet. The requirements for side yards for apartment buildings shall be as prescribed in Section 16 (a), as follocas: "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 vieca 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 accordance 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= I,A ~ TSB ~r 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 = ZA ~ HA 3.5 The length of a building, for the purposes of these formulae shall be construed as the length of the portion of building A from which lines drawn perpendicular to the face of such wall, or walls, will intersect any wall of opposite building B, or intersect the lot line in the case of a yard along side or rear lot line. In cases cahere