Oklahoma Administrative Code › Title 120 - Capitol-Medical Center Improvement and Zoning Commission › Chapter 10 - Zoning Regulations for the Capitol-Medical Center Improvement and Zoning District › Subchapter 5 - General District Provisions And Additional Zoning Regulations › Part 1 - GENERAL PROVISIONS › Section 120:10-5-4.1 - Area and open space

Current through Vol. 41, No. 20, July 1, 2024
The following requirements are intended to provide
					 exceptions or qualify and supplement, as the case may be, the specific district
					 regulations set forth in Subchapter 3 of this Chapter.
(1)
Open space to serve one
				  building.
No open space or lot area for a building or structure shall,
				  during its life, be occupied by, or counted as open space for any other
				  building or structure.
(2)
Minimum requirement.
In residential districts, a minimum of 25
				  percent of the lot shall be maintained as open space with no buildings, parking
				  or impervious surfaces.
(3)
Fences and walls.
Fences, walls and hedges in residential
				  districts may be permitted in any required yard or along the edge of any yard.
				  For residentially-zoned or used property, no fence, wall, or hedge located in
				  front of the front building line shall exceed 3 feet in height, and no other
				  wall or fence shall exceed 6 feet in height.
(4)
Sight lines at
				  intersections.
On any corner lot on which a front and side yard is
				  required, no wall, fence, sign, structure, or any plant growth which obstructs
				  sight lines at elevations between 2 feet and 6 feet above the crown of the
				  adjacent roadway shall be placed or maintained within a triangle formed by
				  measuring from the point of intersection of the front and exterior lot lines a
				  distance of 30 feet along said front and side lot lines and connecting the
				  points so established form a sight triangle on the area of the lot adjacent to
				  the street intersection.
(5)
Location of attached private garage.
An attached or detached
				  private garage which faces on a street shall not be located closer than 25 feet
				  to the street easement line.
(6)
Time and accessory building construction.
No accessory building
				  shall be constructed upon a lot until the construction of the main building has
				  been actually commenced and no accessory building shall be used unless the main
				  building on the lot is also being used.
(7)
Ground coverage and location of
				  accessory building.
Accessory buildings which are not a part of the
				  main building may be built in the rear yard within 10 feet of the rear lot
				  line. An accessory building which is not a part of the main building shall not
				  occupy more than 30% of the rear yard.
(8)
Projections and open space.
Every part of a required yard shall be open to the sky unobstructed except for
				  accessory buildings in the rear yard, and except for the ordinary projections
				  of skylights, sills, belt courses, cornices, and ornamental features projecting
				  not to exceed 12 inches.
(9)
Limit on exterior projections.
Open or lattice-enclosed fire
				  escapes, fireproof outside stairways, and balconies opening upon fire towers
				  projecting into a yard not more than 5 feet, and the ordinary projections of
				  chimneys and flues are permitted.
(10)
Residential building
				  construction.
No building or structure designed or intended to be used
				  for residential purposes shall be constructed on any lot in any district unless
				  such lot abuts for at least 35 feet on at least 1 street and has a minimum
				  width of 50 feet at the front building line; and further provided that no
				  dwelling shall front on any alley or be designed so that an alley is the
				  primary means of ingress or egress, except that a garage apartment may be
				  constructed to the rear of another main dwelling.
(11)
No restriction on public utility
				  construction.
These regulations shall not prohibit the construction of
				  electric sub-stations, gas distribution regulator stations, the extraction of
				  oil or natural gas in any zoning district, provided the landscape plan for such
				  installations are approved by the Commission. These regulations shall not be
				  construed as interfering with the normal construction, operation, and
				  maintenance of water, storm and sanitary sewers, natural gas, electric and
				  communication utilities within the District.
Added at 26 Ok Reg
					 2819, eff 6-22-09 (emergency); Added at 27 Ok Reg 912, eff 5-13-10; Amended at
					 28 Ok Reg 2216, eff 7-25-11