§ X. Additional use, height and area regulations and exceptions.
(A)
Use regulations. On all existing rights-of-way of railroad companies, regardless of the zoning district in which such rights-of-way are located, railroad trackage and accessories to railroad movement may be constructed or maintained.
(B)
Height regulations.
(1)
Public, semi-public, or public service buildings, hospitals, institutions or schools, when permitted in a district, may be erected to a height not to exceed 60 feet and churches and temples may be erected to a height not exceeding 75 feet, if the building is set back from each yard line at least one foot for each two feet additional height above the height limit otherwise provided in the district in which the building is located.
(2)
Chimneys, cooling towers, elevator bulk heads, fire towers, grain elevators, flour mills, monuments, stacks, or scenery lofts, tanks, water towers, ornamental towers and spired church steeples, radio or television towers, or necessary mechanical appurtenances, may be erected to a height in accordance with ordinances which may be hereafter adopted by the City of Clute. In the absence of such ordinances, there shall be no height limitation for these structures.
(C)
Area regulations.
(1)
Front yard. Where 40 percent or more of the frontage on one side of a street between two intersecting streets is developed with buildings that have observed (with a variation of five feet or less) a front yard greater in depth than herein required, new buildings shall not be erected closer to the street than the front yard so established by the existing buildings. In determining such front yard depth, buildings located entirely on the rear half of a lot shall not be counted.
(2)
Side yard. A side yard of not less than 25 feet on the side of the lot adjoining an R-1 or R-2 district shall be provided for all schools, libraries, churches, community houses, clubs and other public or semi-public buildings hereafter erected or structurally altered.
(3)
Garages. Garages detached or attached to the main use building which enter on the side street on a corner lot, shall maintain a side yard of 20 feet in front of the garage.
(D)
Reserved.
(Ord. No. 79-22, § 2(19), 8-9-79; Ord. No. 83-07, § 5, 3-10-83)