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PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT 9-2.05 9-2.05 Required Yards and Open Spaces Subdivision 1. Existing: No yards, now or hereafter provided for a building existing on the effective date of this Code shall subsequently be reduced below, or further reduced if already less than, the minimum yard requirements of this Code for equivalent new construction in any zone. Subdivision 2. Permitted Encroachments on Required Yards: The following shall be permitted encroachments into setback and height requirements except as restricted by other sections of this Code. a. In auy yards: posts, off street parking, flues, sills, pilasters, lintels, cornices, eaves (up to three (3) feet), gutters, awnings, open terraces, steps, sidewalks, essential services, stoops, or similar features provided they do not extend five (5) feet above the height of the principal structure or to a distance less than three (3) feet from any Iot line nor less than one (1) foot from any existing or proposed driveway; yard lights and nameplate signs, trees, shrubs, plants; floodlights or other sources of light illuminating authorized illuminated signs, or light standards for illuminating parking areas, loading areas, or yard for safety and security reasons, provided the direct source of Iight is not visible from the public right of way or adjacent residential property. Further no deck, exposed ramps (wheelchair), uncovered porch, or air conditioner, shall be less than five (5) feet from a side or rear yard line, and if in a front yard, a variance shall be required. • Chimneys, flag poles and open fire escapes may not extend more than five (5) feet above the principal structure or three (3) feet from any lot line. b. Inside and rear yards, fences thirty percent (30~) open with respect to air movement; walls and hedges six (6) feet in height or less; bays not to exceed a depth of three (3) feet or containing an area of more than thirty (30) square feet, fire escapes not to exceed a width of three (3) feet. c. On a corner lot; nothing shall be placed or allowed to grow in such a manner as materially to impede vision between a height of two and one half (2 1/2) and ten (10) feet above the centerline grades of the intersecting streets within a triangular area thirty (30) feet from the intersecting street right of way lines. d. In no event shall off street parking,. structures of air type, buildings, or other improvements cover more than seventy five percent (.75X) of the lot areas. In no event shall the landscaped portion of the Iot be less than twenty five percent (25X) of the entire lot as a result of permitted encroachments. • 31