§ 15.08.040. Wooden structures—Construction restrictions.

A.

No wooden structures shall hereafter be built within the fire limits as given in Chapter 15.20, or as they may hereafter be established, except temporary one-story buildings for the use of builders during the construction of the fireproof structure; wooden fences not over eight feet high; piazzas or balconies not exceeding ten feet in width or extending more than three feet above the second-story floor beams; bay windows when covered with incombustible material; or during construction for workmen engaged thereon, small outhouses not exceeding one hundred fifty feet in area nor eight feet in height.

B.

No wooden building or structure hereafter erected or altered outside the fire limits shall exceed two and one-half stories or thirty feet in height.

C.

No wooden-frame building hereafter erected for any occupancy other than grain elevators, coal elevators and pockets, and ice houses, shall cover a ground area exceeding the following:

1.

One-story building, seven thousand five hundred square feet;

2.

Two-story buildings or two-and-one-half-story buildings, five thousand square feet.

D.

In no case shall a wood-frame building be erected within five feet of the side or rear lot line, nor within ten feet of another building, unless the space between the studs on each side be filled solidly with not less than three and one-half inches of masonry or plain concrete or other equivalent incombustible material.

E.

Buildings with wooden frame work clad with sheet metal, covered with stucco or veneered with brick, shall be classed as wood-frame buildings.

(Prior code § 15-4D).