18.70.080 Height limitations.
(A) Building Height. No building shall be erected, reconstructed, or structurally altered to exceed the height limitations designated for the zone in which such building or structure is located. Height regulations established elsewhere in this title shall not apply to the following:
(1) In residential districts: church spires, belfries, cupolas and domes not for human occupancy, public monuments, water towers, and grain elevators or necessary mechanical appurtenances associated with agricultural produce processing and accessory agricultural buildings provided they do not exceed a height of 60 feet. Also noncommercial radio or television antennas or wireless communication towers as approved in accordance with the requirements of Chapter 18.95 SLCC.
(2) Chimneys in residential districts may be two feet above the roofline of the residential structure, even if the roofline is at the maximum building height.
(3) In industrial districts: chimneys, refrigeration coolers, ventilation fans, elevator bulkheads, derricks, conveyors, grain elevators, or other similar mechanical appurtenances and/or structures necessary to operate and maintain the building provided they do not exceed 100 feet in height and are so located and constructed that if they should collapse, their reclining length would still be contained on the property on which it was constructed.
(4) The combined height of roof-mounted solar panels and associated equipment and the structure upon which they are installed may exceed the maximum building height of a zoning district by an additional six feet, so long as the structure upon which the solar panels and associated equipment are installed does not exceed the maximum building height of the zoning district in which they are located.
(B) Height Limitation on Corner Lots. Notwithstanding any other provisions in any zoning district the height of any buildings, fences, walls, retaining walls, gateways, ornamental structures, hedges, shrubbery and other fixtures, and construction and landscape plantings on corner lots in all zoning districts shall be limited as follows:
(1) Height shall not exceed two and one-half feet above the established elevation of the intersecting streets for a distance of 25 feet on local residential streets along the front and side lot lines and within the triangle formed by the connection of these two lot lines and 33 feet on collector and arterial streets along the front and side lot lines and within the triangle formed by the connection of these two lot lines. (See Figure No. 1.)
Figure No. 1. Clear Sight Triangle
(below example is for local street)
(Ord. 312 § 2(14.7), passed 4-11-2012. Code 2012 § 152.217.)