§ 20.12.030 — Supplemental height regulations

20.12.030 - Supplemental height regulations.

Height regulations as set forth in the Table of Density and Dimensional Standards — Appendix B, may be modified as follows: A. No new building may be erected or existing building increased in height in such a manner as to shade a solar heating or power facility licensed in the following manner: 1. Where any building installs a heating, cooling or power system using sunlight as a power source sufficient to supply ten percent or more of the building's total energy requirement, the owner of the building may apply to the building official for a license for the system which the building official shall issue once satisfied that the system does supply the above minimum energy requirements. 2. After issuance of the license, no building in adjacent areas may be erected to a height that will cast a shadow on the solar receiver components so licensed. In determining the permitted heights, the December 22nd arc and declination of the sun shall be used. Location of licensed solar power systems shall be shown on the zoning district maps. B. Public, semipublic or public service buildings, hospitals, institutions, or schools when permitted in a district, may be erected to a height not exceeding one hundred feet, and churches and temples may be erected to a height not exceeding seventy-five feet if the building is set back from each yard line at least one foot for each foot of additional building height above the height limit otherwise provided in the zoning district in which the building is located. C. Church spires, belfries, monuments, tanks, water and fire towers, windmills, stage towers or scenery lofts, cooling towers, ornamental towers and spires, chimneys, elevator bulkheads, stacks, conveyors and flagpoles may exceed height limits if approved by the building official.

(Ord. 16653 § 2 (part), 2007)