Section 35-62 - Height and Setback Requirements in Commercial Districts With R1 Through R5 Equivalency
In Commercial Districts mapped within, or with a residential equivalent of an R1 through R5 District, for the purposes of applying the provisions of Section 23-42 (Height and Setback Requirements in R1 Through R5 Districts), inclusive, the applicable Residence District regulations shall apply, including as modified by the provisions of Section 35-22 (Residential Bulk Regulations in C1 or C2 Districts Whose Bulk Is Governed by Surrounding Residence District).
However, for non- qualifying residential sites :
(a) located within R3 and R4 Districts, the height and setback regulations for R4 Districts without a letter or number suffix shall apply; and
(b) located within R5A or R5B Districts, the height and setback regulations for R5 Districts without a letter suffix shall apply.
Furthermore, for the purposes of applying the provisions of Section 23-423 (Standard setback regulations), for building street walls fronting a street where a Commercial District is mapped along the entire block frontage, for the portion of such street wall that exceeds the maximum base height, a setback shall be provided at a height not lower than a minimum base height of 20 feet and not higher than the maximum base height set forth in Section 23-424 (Height and setback requirements for qualifying residential sites).
Additional height and setback provisions are set forth in Section 35-64 (Special Provisions for Certain Areas), inclusive.
The height of all buildings or other structures shall be measured from the base plane . For the purposes of this Section, where base planes of different elevations apply to different portions of a building or other structure , each such portion of the building may be considered to be a separate building .