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