Residential yard exceptions

• A. Building Projections. Projections of window sills, belt courses, eaves, cornices and other ornamental features shall be permitted.
• B. Extension into Front Yard. The space in a required front yard shall be open and unobstructed by structures other than signs except that an unenclosed porch may extend no more than ten (10) feet into the front yard.
• C. Required Front Yards in Developed Blocks. In a block in which twenty-five (25) percent or more of the frontage within two hundred (200) feet of the lot and on the same side of the street is developed with structures, the required front yard for a structure hereafter erected on that lot shall extend to the average alignment of such existing structures instead of as provided in the succeeding sections of this chapter, except that no residence shall have a front yard depth of less than five feet in depth or need have a front yard of greater depth than forty (40) feet in an A-80 district, thirty (30) feet in an A-20 district or twenty-five (25) feet in any other residential district.
• D. Principal Front Yards. In any district a lot having frontages on two public ways that do not intersect shall have two front yards each of a depth as provided in this chapter. One such front yard shall be designated the principal front yard.

  One yard of a corner lot shall be designated as a principal front yard. In a residential district, the yard adjacent to the street that the front door faces shall be the principal front yard.

(Prior code § 30-16)