§ 3.3. The above height limits may be exceeded in the following instances.


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  • (a)

    If a public building, church, temple, hospital, institution or school is set back an additional foot over the yards required in Part 4 it may be increased in height two feet over the height limit of Section 3.2 up to a limit of 70 feet.

    (b)

    Chimneys, church steeples, cooling towers, elevator bulkheads, fire towers, monuments, stacks, stage towers, or scenery lofts, tanks, water towers, ornamental towers, spires, radio and television towers, grain elevators or necessary mechanical appurtenances, are exempt from height regulations.

    (c)

    Buildings in the C-1 District may be increased in height one foot for each foot that the building is set back from all required yard lines.

    (d)

    Those parts of existing buildings that violate height regulations may be repaired and remodeled, but may not be reconstructed or structurally altered.