§ 16.60.010.9. Setback measurements, yard.

A.

Rectangular lots; yard nomenclature, location. The following diagram is intended to illustrate the terminology used with reference to front, side, and rear yards on interior, corner, reversed frontage, and through lots of rectangular shape.

B.

Nonrectangular lots; yard nomenclature, location. The following diagram is intended to illustrate the terminology used in reference to front, side, and rear yards on interior, corner, reversed frontage and through lots of nonrectangular shape.

C.

Measurements. In the measurement of required waterfront yards, depth shall be measured perpendicular to the centerline of the seawall, or waterside lot line or the mean high water line, whichever is closer to the principal structure, for non-seawalled lots.

D.

Yard measurement. In the measurement of required yards, depth shall be measured perpendicular to the property line. In all measurements of yards which would be affected by corner radii at the intersections of streets, it shall be assumed that the lot lines meet at the same angle they would have formed without the corner radii and at the same point.

(Code 1992, § 16.60.010.9; Ord. No. 876-G, § 27, 2-21-2008; Ord. No. 287-H, §§ 26, 27, 7-20-2017)