§ 23.04.104. Exceptions to Setback Standards.

The minimum setback requirements of this chapter apply in all cases except the following, which do not include exceptions to the blufftop setbacks required by Section 23.04.118 of this title (see also Section 23.04.116 - Projections Into Required Setbacks):

a.

Fences, hedges or walls as allowed by Section 23.04.190c (Standards for fencing and screening materials).

b.

Decks, terraces, steps, earthworks and other similar landscaping or design elements placed directly on finished grade that do not exceed an average height of 30 inches above the surrounding finished grade, provided that no such wood structure shall extend closer than 36 inches to a property line, unless it complies with applicable fire resistive construction requirements of the Uniform Building Code.

c.

Areas where special setbacks have been established through adoption of building line maps (Section 23.01.022c), tentative or vesting tentative map approval, Development Plan approval for a cluster development, planning area standard, specific plan, or by Chapter 23.08 of this title for a specific use, in which cases the special setbacks apply in place of the setbacks of this chapter.

d.

Areas where an official plan line for road right-of-way has been established, in which case the front or street-side setbacks required by this title shall be measured from the plan line instead of from the property line that would otherwise be the basis for setback measurement.

[Amended 1995, Ord. 2715]