35-1203. - Height and area regulations.
(1) Height Regulations: No building shall exceed thirty (30) feet in height or twenty (20) feet adjacent to residential uses. At the building setback line, a building may exceed such height provided that at no point it projects above a line sloping inward and upward at a forty-five-degree angle at the required height and setback line to a maximum height of forty-five (45) feet.
(2) Front Yard: Buildings shall be set back at least fifty (50) feet from the right-of-way line along arterial streets and at least thirty (30) feet from the right-of-way line along all other streets. In the proximity of street intersections, see section 35-1902(3).
In order to accommodate, encourage, or promote infill development or redevelopment on properties located within the infill incentive district, the Zoning Administrator may reduce front-yard building setbacks by up to twenty-five (25) feet for arterial streets and up to fifteen (15) feet for collector streets after having made a finding in writing that all of the following criteria have been met:
A. Such deviation, on balance, will result in a superior environmental and design quality through items such as but not limited to:
i. Increased levels of architectural quality
ii. Greater material diversity
iii. Enhanced usable space and/or pedestrian connection
iv. Activation of street frontage
v. Higher level of landscape design
vi. Creative design solutions for back-of-house functions
B. The site is designed to ensure safe and adequate on-site traffic circulation and prevent drive-through queuing from backing onto main driveways or public streets;
C. Sufficient parking is provided on-site;
D. The development will enhance the quality of a neighborhood by developing a vacant lot or redeveloping an existing dilapidated commercial building or center;
E. The development complies with required setbacks and landscape buffers from adjacent residential properties; and
F. The reduced setback maintains the goals of providing landscaping along streets and street intersections as identified in section 35-1906.1
(3) Side Yard: A minimum side yard of twelve (12) feet shall be required on one (1) side of any lot or parcel not having rear or alley access. On multi-building projects with on-site drives suitable for fire lanes, the required side yard setbacks may be waived upon approval of the site development plan by the Planning Director and the Fire Chief. In all instances, a minimum twenty-foot side yard setback shall be required for commercial development when abutting residentially zoned property.
(4) Rear Yard: None required where solid masonry building wall and/or six-foot masonry wall is constructed along rear property line and provided also no access or servicing is permitted to rear of property. Twenty-five-foot setback is required in all other instances.
(5) Intensity of lot use: No building(s) shall occupy more than fifty-five (55) percent of the lot area.
(Ord. No. 1518, § I, 8-1-85; Ord. No. 1421, 1-10-85; Ord. No. 3063, § 3, 11-18-99; Ord. No. 5075, § 2(Exh.), 2-22-24; Ord. No. 5142, § 2(Exh. A), 11-13-25)
