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ORDINANCE NS-3.22
AN ORDINANCE ENDING ORDINANCE NS-3, THE ZONING ORDINANCE
OF THE CITY OF SARATOGA, BY AMENDING ARTICLE 3 PERTAINING
TO ACCESSORY STRUCTURES IN REAR YARDS IN SINGLE-FAMILY
RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS
The City Council of the City of Saratoga does hereby orda'in
as follows:
SECTION 1: The last two sentences of Section 3.7 of Artfcle 3 of
Ordinance NS=3 of the City of Saratoga are hereby repealed.
SECTION 2: Section 3.7-1 is hereby added to Article 3 of Ordinance
NS-3 of the City of Saratoga, which section shall read
and be, as follows:
Section 3.7-1: ACCESSORY STRUCTURES IN REAR YARDS
(a) No accessory structure~located in a rear :yard shall
exceed 12-feet in height. Exc'ept as otherwise per-
mitted by sub-Section (b), no acceSsory~cture or
fence shall be located in the required rear yard of
any lot or site,
(b) Accessory structures and fence~ may be located in the
required rear yard of a site subject to the following
requirements:
(1) A use permit shall first be obtained under Article
I~6 of this ordinance for any accessory structure
over 6-feet in height and any fence over 6-feet in
heights'
(2) Except as hereafter provided, the se't'back of the
accessory structure from the rear property line
shall be a minimum'of 25-feet, and setback from the
side pr6perty line shall be !the same'distance as
the minimum required side yard of the zoning dis-
trict classification of the site. On a reversed
corner'lot, no accessory structure shall be located
closer to the rear property line than the distance
equal to the required side yard of the adjoining
key lot.
(3) Cabanas ~and shade structures, not exceeding 250-
square feet in floor area, may be located within
25-feet of the rear property line, but shall beno
'closer than 6-f~et to such reart~prope'rty~line and
shall not exceed 8-feet in overall height plus one
additibnal foot in height for each additional 3-feet
of setback from side.and rear property lines, up to
a maximum of lO-feet in~e~i"height
(4) I~ardening.~and storage sheds, and str.uc[ures separat-
.~d~fro~j~cabana in which swimming pool equipment is
~' may be located within 25-feet of .the rear
prope'rty line, so long as (a) no such structure ex-
ceeds 6-feet in height nor 3-feet in depth, and (b)
in the event any such structure houses machinery or
other fixed equipment capable of creating noise
audible outside of the structure, it shall not be !!
located 'closer than 6-feet to the side and rear pro~-
perry lines.
SECTION 3: Subsection (d) of Section 3.2 of Article 3 of Ordinance NS-3
of the City of Saratoga is hereby amended to read as follows:
(d) Subject to the regulations 'and.prohibiti~dsmof Section
3.7-1 hereof, accessory structures located on the same
site with~apermitted use, including private garages and
carports, limited to one guest house or accessory living
quarters without akitchen, and including storehouses
and sheds, garden and shade structures, non-commercial
greenhouses, recreation rooms, home hobby
and structures for housing swimming pool equip~en~
SECTION 4: The following words and their definitions are hereby added to
Section 1.5 of Ordinance NS-j which section is entitled
"Definitions", to be inserted therein in proper alphabetical
sequence:
i-1. CABANA - A small house, cabin or structure used as a
bath house and/or housing swimming pool equip-
ment.
aaa-1..FS~E~R~'RE- A gazebo, tea house or permanent
'~' ~ '~ awning structure used to provide
shade or to complement the landscape
architecture~of a garden or rear yard.
SECTION 5: If any section, subs~ction, sentence, clause or phzase of this
ordinance is for any reason held by a court of competent juris-
diction to be t~valid, such decision shall not affect the valid-
ity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City
Council of the City of Saratoga hereby declares that it would
have passed this ordinance and each section, Subjection, sen-
tence, clause and phrase thereof, irrespective of the fact
that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences,~clauses
or phrases be held invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 6: This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect
thirty (30) days afte~ the date of its passage and adoption.
The above and foregoing ordinance, after public hearing held thereon b~
the Planning Commission of the City of Saratoga held on the 28th day of .n~]y ,
1969,'was thereafter introduced and p~blic hearing held thereon by the City Council
thereof on the 3rd day of December, 1969, and thereafter was passed and adopted this
3rd day of December , 1969, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Tyler, Dwyer, Robbing, Smith, Sanders
NOES: None '
ABSENT: None ' '
ATTEST:~, :~ ~ :. ~
///~ITY CLERF~
,~; - The above and f0~e~ng ~s a true a~
..... ' copy of Or~inanca. ~. ~ ~whiCh has
· '. t , p~biishcd according to law.
Deputy City Clerk ~ Oat~