121-42 - Height of Street Walls and Maximum Building Height Within Subdistrict A-2

LAST AMENDED
12/5/2024


(a)    Height of #street walls#
      The #street wall# location provisions of paragraph (a) of Section 35-631 shall apply, except that the #street wall# shall
      extend to a minimum base height of 80 feet and a maximum base height of 90 feet before setback. However, if the height
      of an adjacent #street wall# fronting on the same #street line# is higher than 90 feet before setback, the #street wall# of
      the new or #enlarged# #building# may rise without setback to the height of such adjacent #street wall#, up to a maximum
      height of 120 feet.

      For #zoning lots#, or portions thereof, with #street# frontage of 25 feet or less and existing on June 29, 2010, a minimum
      base height lower than 80 feet shall be permitted along such #street# frontage in accordance with the following
      provisions:

      (1)    where the height of an adjacent #street wall# fronting on the same #street line# is at least 60 feet and less than 80
             feet, the #street wall# of the new or #enlarged# #building# may rise without setback to the height of such adjacent
             #street wall#; or

             where the height of an adjacent #street wall# fronting on the same #street line# is less than 60 feet, the #street
             wall# of the new or #enlarged# #building# may rise without setback to a minimum #street wall# height of 60 feet.


      The #street wall# of any #building# may rise to a height less than the minimum base height required pursuant to this
      paragraph (a), provided that no #building# on the #zoning lot# exceeds such height, except where such #building# is
      located on a #zoning lot# with multiple #buildings#, one or more of which is #developed#, #enlarged# or altered after
      February 2, 2011, to a height exceeding the minimum base height required pursuant to this paragraph (a).

(b)   Maximum #building# height

      Above a height of 90 feet or the height of the adjacent #street wall# if higher than 90 feet, no portion of a #building or
      other structure# shall penetrate a #sky exposure plane# that begins at a height of 90 feet above the #street line#, or the
      height of the adjacent #street wall# if higher than 90 feet, and rises over the #zoning lot# at a slope of four feet of vertical
      distance for each foot of horizontal distance to a maximum height limit of 250 feet, except as provided below:

      (1)    any portion of the #building or other structure# #developed# or #enlarged# pursuant to the tower regulations of
             Section 33-45 (Tower Regulations) or paragraph (d) of Section 35-632 (Maximum height of buildings and setback
             regulations), as applicable, may penetrate the #sky exposure plane#, provided no portion of such #building or
             other structure# exceeds the height limit of 250 feet; and

      (2)    permitted obstructions, as listed in Section 33-42, may penetrate the #sky exposure plane# and the height limit of
             250 feet. In addition, a dormer shall be allowed as a permitted obstruction pursuant to paragraph (b) of Section
             23-413 (Permitted obstructions in certain districts).


      On a #zoning lot# with frontage of at least 200 feet along at least one #street#, up to 20 percent of the #aggregate width
      of the street wall# facing such #street#, for a maximum width of 50 feet, may be recessed to a maximum depth of 15 feet
      from the #street line#, provided the recessed area is located a minimum of 20 feet from an adjacent #building# and that a
      minimum of 60 percent of such area is planted with any combination of grass, ground cover, shrubs, trees or other living
      plant material in the ground or in planters permanently affixed to the ground.