Town of Lilesville

              Zoning Ordinance

ARTICLE VIII

EXCEPTIONS AND MODIFICATIONS


Section 80.     LOT OF RECORD

     Where the owner of a lot of official record in any district at the time of the adoption of this ordinance or his successor in title thereto does not own sufficient contiguous land to enable him to conform to the minimum lot size requirements of this ordinance, such lot may be used as a building site approved, however, that the requirements of the district are complied with or a variance is obtained from the Board of Adjustment.

     Notwithstanding the foregoing, whenever two (2) or more adjoining vacant lots of record are in single ownership at any time after the adoption of this ordinance and such lots individually have less area or width than the minimum requirements of the district in which such lots are located, such lots shall be combined into one or more lots which meet the minimum requirements of this ordinance for the district in which such lots are located.

Section 81.     FRONT YARD SETBACKS FOR DWELLINGS

     The front yard setback requirements of this ordinance for. dwellings shall not apply to any lot where the average setback of existing buildings located wholly or partially within one-hundred (100) feet on either side of the proposed dwelling and on the same side of the street as such lot is less than the minimum required front yard depth. In such case the setback on such lots may be less than the required setback but not less than the average of the existing setbacks on the aforementioned lots, or a distance of ten (10) feet from the street right-of-way line, whichever is greater.

Section 82.     HEIGHT LIMITATIONS

     The height limitations of this ordinance shall not apply to church spires, belfries, cupolas and domes not intended for human occupancy; monuments, water towers, observation towers, transmission towers, chimneys, smokestacks, conveyors, flag poles, radio towers, television towers, masts, aerials and similar structures, except as otherwise provide in a vicinity of airports.

Section 83.     VISIBILITY AT INTERSECTIONS

     On a corner lot in any residential district, no planting, landscaping or shrubby, structure, sign, fence, wall or obstruction to vision more than three (3) feet in height measure from the center line of the street shall be place or maintained within the triangular area formed by the intersecting street right-of-way lines and a straight line

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