ARTICLE VI Residence B-I Districts

[Added 12-21-1966 by Ord. No 85-1966]

§211-24. Permitted uses and structures.

Buildings, structures and uses thereof and land uses permitted in Residence B-1 Districts shall be the same as those permitted in the Residence A Districts

§211-25. Setback.

Front yard requirements shall be the same as for Residence

A.Districts, except that

A. When the building setback at the front is not governed by existing buildings, and for frontage on streets and roads other than main thoroughfares, the minimum setback of buildings shall be thirty (30) feet from the street line or fifty-five (55) feet from the center line of the street, whichever may be greater For frontage on all main thoroughfares, the building setback at the front shall be forty (40) feet from the front street line or sixty (60) feet from the center line of the street, whichever may be greater Such main thoroughfares in Residence B-1 Districts shall include Ryerson Avenue and any street shown on the Official Map of Streets with a width of sixty (60) feet or greater.

B. On a corner lot, no building may be placed within twenty-five (25) feet of the side street property line or fifty (50) feet of the center line of the side street, whichever may be greater, and the front street setback shall be observed on the side street if the side street includes lots other than comer lots

§211-26 Rear yard

A. There shall be a rear yard not less than thirty-five (35) feet deep When a lot extends through from street to street, the front yard restrictions shall be observed on both streets

B. Private swimming pools, portable pools or wading pools shall be permitted in rear yards. [Added 8-6-75 by Ord No 70-1975]

§211-27 Side yards

A. There shall be two (2) side yards with a total width of not less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the lot width at the front street setback line The width of the narrower side yard shall be not less than ten percent (10%) of the width of the lot at the front street setback line or ten (10) feet, whichever is greater

B. No private swimming pools which are above-surface, portable or wading pools shall be permitted in side yards abutting the street on corner lots No pool or its appurtenances shall be permitted in an) side yard [Added 86-75 by Ord. No 70-1975]

§211-28 Depth of lot.

No lot shall be less than one hundred (100) feet in depth

§211-29 Width of lot



No lot shall be less than one hundred (100) feet in width

§211-30 Height

Requirements shall be the same as for Residence A Districts

§211-31 Area

No parcel Dr tract of land shall be subdivided into building plots having an area of less than ten thousand (10,000) square feet

§211-32 Private garages and other outbuildings, driveways

A. No Dwelling unit shall be hereafter erected unless equipped With a garage with not less than two hundred thirty-one

(231) square feet in floor area Such garage may be attached to or built into the Dwelling unit or separately constructed as hereinafter provided Every Dwelling unit hereafter erected shall be provided with an improved driveway

B. No garage or other outbuilding shall be placed nearer to a side or rear property line than ten (10) feet, and for each foot the height of such building exceeds fifteen (15) feet, the offset from the side and rear property lines shall be increased by six (6) inches No detached garage or other outbuilding shall be placed nearer to a front street line than sixty five (65) feet nor nearer to a side street line than a distance equal to half the width of the lot, except that this shall not apply to require such a building to be set back from a side street property line for a distance greater than seventy (70) feet However, nothing herein contained shall prevent the construction of a garage as a structural part of

a Dwelling, provided the outer walls of the garage are taken as the main walls of the Dwelling when measuring the front and side yards required under §§ 211-25 and 211-27 of this Article A one-story attached garage may extend into a rear yard for the entire width and depth of the structure

§211-33. Minimum size of dwellings

Every Dwelling hereafter erected or placed in a Residence B-1 District shall have a living floor space, as defined in § 211-1B, of not less than one thousand sixty-eight (1,068) square feet for a one-story Dwelling, not less than one thousand two hundred (1,200) square feet for a one-and-one-half-story Dwelling and not less than one thousand three hundred (1,300) square feet for a two-story Dwelling, except that in the case of a lot existing at the time of this enactment and not adjoining other property in the same ownership and fronting on the same street, having an area of not more than eleven thousand two hundred fifty (11,250) square feet and a width of not more than seventy-five (75) feet, the minimum living floor space shall be not less than nine hundred twelve (912) square feet for a one-story Dwelling, one thousand (1,000) square feet for a one-and-one-half-story Dwelling and one thousand one hundred (1,100) square feet for a two-story Dwelling

§211-34 Uniformity of exterior design and appearance.

A.Except as provided in this section, no one-family Dwelling shall be erected if it is like or substantially like any neighboring building (as that term is defined in this section) then in existence or for which a building permit has been issued, in more than three (3) of the following respects

(1) Height of the main roof ridge or, in the case of a building with a flat roof, the highest point of the roof beams above the elevation of the first floor

(2) Height of the main roof ridge above the top of the plate (all flat roofs shall be deemed identical in this dimension)

(3) Length of the main roof ridge or, in the case of a building with a flat roof, length of the main roof

(4) Width between outside walls at the ends of the building, measured under the main roof at right angles to the length thereof

(5) Relative location of windows in the front elevation or in each of both side elevations with respect to each other and with respect to any door, chimney, porch or attached garage in the same elevation

(6) In the front elevation, both

(a) Relative location with respect to each other of garage, if attached, porch, if any, and the remainder of the building, and

(b) Either height of any portion of the building located outside the limits of the main roof, measured from the elevation of the first floor to the roof ridge or, in the case of a flat roof, the highest point of the roof beams, or width of any said portion of the building if it has a gable in the front elevation, otherwise length of said roof ridge or said flat roof in the front elevation.

B. For the purposes of this section, a building shall be deemed to be a 'neighboring building" if the distance between such building and the subject building is not more than one hundred fifty (150) feet and if both buildings front on the same street