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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance-1978-0267INTRODUCED BY COUNCIL PERSON PEPE ORDINANCE NO. 267 Series of 1978 TITLE: AN ORDINANCE AMENDING APPENDIX A, ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CODE OF LAWS OF THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE, AS ADOPTED AND PASSED IN 1976, BY THE ADDITION OF A SECTION PERTAINING TO PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE, COLORADO, THAT: Section 1. Section 3. Appendix A is amended by the addition of the following: Public Buildings and Facilities District (PF-1) A. Use regulation: No building or land shall be used and no building shall be hereafter erected, converted or structurally altered unless otherwise provided for herein except for one or more of the following uses, restricted however to those areas served by public water and sewer facilities. 1. Public buildings and facilities 2. Public schools 3. Public libraries 4. Parks, noncommerical playgrounds and other public recreational uses. 5. Quasi-public buildings, such as public water, public sewer and public utility buildings. 6. Fire stations. B. Height regulation: 1. No building shall exceed a height of fifty (50) feet. C. Area regulation: 1. Area of lot: No limitation 2. Width of lot: No limitation 3. Front yard: The minimum front yard of all buildings shall be fifty (50) feet when the front yard is adjacent to a dedicated public street. 4. Side yard: There shall be a minimum sideyard of ten (10) feet for the first story and five (5) feet for each additional story of any building. 5. Rear yard: There shall be a minimum depth of rear yard of ten (10) feet for the first story and five (5) feet for each additional story of any building. 6. Lot coverage: Not more than eighty-five (85%) percent of the gross lot area shall be covered by structures, accessory structures or surfacing. That area not covered shall be landscaped. D. Fences, walls and obstructions to view: 1. No fence, wall, hedge or other structure, other than a main structure, shall exceed a height of forty-two (42) inches or shall be erected, placed or maintained within fifty-five (55) feet of an intersection of two (2) or more street right-of-way lines. 2. No fence, wall or other obstruction shall be erected above a height of forty-eight (48) inches within the distance caused by the inter- section of a side lot line with an extension line of the front wall of a main structure and no fence or wall or other obstruction shall be erected above a height of seventy-two (72) inches in instances not otherwise specified. 3. No type of tree, plant, sign, fence, wall, hedge, or other obstruction to vision shall be placed or retained in such a manner as to obstruct vision at any intersection of streets or cause a traffic hazard. 4. Fence Types permitted: a. Masonry walls b. Ornamental iron c. Woven wire Ord. No. 267 Series of 1978 d. Wood or other material e. Hedges 5. Fence Types prohibited: a. Fences carrying electric current b. Any fence, if in the opinion of the chief building inspector, that would constitute a hazard to the health of any person. Section 2. Effective date This Ordinance shall take effect fifteen (15) publication following final passage. days after INTRODUCED, READ, ADOPTED, AND ORDERED PUBLISHED ON FIRST READING BY A VOTE OF 6 TO 0 THIS 13th DAY OF Parch _ 1978; and that Second eadinq be scheduled for P1arch 27, 1971 at 7:300 p.ro. READ, ADOPTED, AND ORDERED PUBLISHED ON SECOND AND r'INAL READING BY A VOTE OF 6 TO 0 , THIS 27th DAY OF March , 1978. SIGNED BY THE MAYOR OF THE CITY OF WHEAT RIDGE, COLORADO, THIS 28th DAY OF March , 1978. OL VER V. PHIL IPS, " YOR ATTEST CAROL F. HAMPF, CITY RK