Sec. 32-300.03.1(a)
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Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
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- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line. on corner lots20 ft
in the case of a corner lot a minimum of 20 feet from the side property line adjacent to the side street.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structures allowed only in rear and side yards
Accessory buildings, antennas and their supporting structures, and in-ground swimming pools shall be allowed only in the rear and side yards.
- AccessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. structure rear setbackSetbackThe distance a building must be held back from a lot line.5 ft
Accessory structures in the rear yard, including aboveground pools and antennas and their supporting structure which are less than 20 feet in height, shall be set back a minimum of five feet from the rear and side property lines
- Maximum coverage of accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. buildings in a yardYardThe open space left between a building and its lot line — the space a setback creates.25 pct
The maximum coverage for all accessory buildings on a lot shall be 25 percent of the yard in which the accessory buildings, or any portion thereof, is located.
- Maximum aggregate gross floor area of accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. buildings30 pct of principal building GFA
The aggregate gross floor area of all accessory buildings on a lot shall not exceed 30 percent of the gross floor area of the principal building
- Maximum accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. building heightMaximum heightThe tallest a building may be, given in feet, in storeys, or both — whichever binds first.18 ft
Accessory buildings shall not exceed a height of 18 feet.
- Minimum aggregate gross floor area for accessoryAccessory useA secondary activity customarily incidental to the main use of the lot — a garage, a home office. buildings576 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
provided that every lot of record with a principal building shall be entitled to an aggregate of 576 square feet of gross floor area for all accessory buildings.
From the ordinance
In the A-1, SR-5, SR-3, SR-1, R-2, R-4, RPC, PMD and PMR (other than areas of single-family attached dwellings) zoning districts, accessory structures, antennas and their supporting structures, and in-ground swimming pools on lots greater than three acres shall be subject to the required yards, setbacks and lot coverage of the zoning district in which they are located, except as provided for in section 32-301.06.2. Accessory structures on lots of three acres or less shall be subject to the following requirements: (1) Accessory buildings, antennas and their supporting structures, and in-ground swimming pools shall be allowed only in the rear and side yards.