HomeMy WebLinkAboutordinance.council.010-65ORDINANCE NO. /~
(Series of 1965)
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING TITLE XI, CHAPTER 1, THE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE
CITY OF ASPEN, COLOP, A90, TO PROVIDE FOR THE I~ASUREMENT OF THE MAXIMUM
HEIGHT IN BUILDINGS, AND DECLARING AN RHERGENCY TO EXIST:
BE IT ORDAIN~'D BY THE CITY COU~,U~r~ THE CITY OF ASPEN,
COLOR~DO:
Section 1: That Supplementary Regulations ll-l-8(j),
Maximum Height of Buildings, is amended to read aa follows:
The height of a building shall be measured from the established
street grade; If no official street grade is established, then
from the existing center line grade of the street. The point of
reference shall be the average street grade for not more than
90 feet of frontage. For larger building sites, each frontage
of 90 feet or less shall be considered separately.
For building sites where the grade percentage slopes upward
from the street frontage to the alley or rear property line at
a grade percentage of 107o or greater, the point of reference shall
be the average level from street to alley, but not to exceed
five feet above the average street grade.
The height of a building shall be determined by a vertical
distance from the grade reference point to the top of a flat
or mansard roof, or to the mean height between the eaves and
ridge of a gable, hip, gambrel or similar pitched roof. The
ridge of a gable, hip, gambrel, or similar pitched roof may not
exceed over five feet above the specified maximum height limit.
Antennas, chimneys, flues, vents or similar structures shall
not extend over ten feet above the specified maximum height
limit. Water towers may not extend over five feet above the
specified maximum height limit. Church spires and flagpoles
may extend over the specified maximum height limit.
A variance from the maximum height limitation may be granted
by the Board of Adjustment, on building sites where the grade
percentage is 10% or over and where hardship would result from
the strict enforcement of this section. Requests for variances
must be accompanied by drawings showing plot plan, contours
and cross sections of the building site and proposed structures.
Section 2: The City Council of theCity of Aspen, Colorado,
hereby finds, determines and declares that an emergency exists, and that
this ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of public peace,
health and safety.
INTRODUCED, READ AND ORDERF. D PUBLISHED this /~- DAY of
August, 1965.
Mayor
ATTEST:
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City Clerk ,/
Finally adopted and approved this ~c ay of ~, 1965.
Mayor
STATE OF COLORADO)
COUNTY OF PITKIN )
I, Dorothy Hoff~nn City Clerk of the
City of Aspen, Colorado, do hereby certify that the above and fore.
going ordinance was introduced, read in full and passed first reading
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Aspen, Colorado,
on the 16 day of August , 196 , and published in the Aspen
times, a weekly newspaper of general circulation, published in the City
of Aspen, Colorado, in its issue of August 20 . 1965, and
was finally adopted and approved at a regular meeting of the City
Council on September ? , 1965, and ordered published as
Ordinance No, 10 , Series of 1965 , of said City as proyided by
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IN ~ITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set nry hand and seal of
said. Cit~ of Aspen. Colorado, this 8th day of September , 1965.