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ORDINANCE # , SECOND SERIES AN ORDINANCE AMENDING PERPORMANCE STANDARDS TO THE NON-ENCROACHMENT AND ACCESSORY STROCTURE SECTIONS OP THE ORONO MUNICIPAL CODE The City Council of Orono ordains as follows: SECTION 1. Chapter 10 of the Municipal Code of Orono is hereby amended by repealing Sections 10.03, Subdivision 15 A through F, and substituting the following language in its place: Section 10.03, Subdivision 15 - Non-encroachments. The following shall not be considered to be encroachments on yard requirements: A. Chimneys, flues, belt courses, leaders, sills, pilasters, lintels, ornamental features, mechanical devices, cornices, eaves, gutters, and the like provided they do not extend more than 1-1/2 feet laterally into the required yard from a structure that is not located within the required yard. B. Lights for illuminating parking areas, loading areas, or yards for safety and security purposes, provided the direct source of light^is not visible from the public right-of-way or adjacent residential property. Such lights may be located to within 5 feet of the front lot line. C. Pences which do not exceed 3-1/2 feet in height; terraces, steps, uncovered porches, stoops or similar structures, which do not extend above the height of the ground floor level to the principal building and extend to a distance of not less than 10 feet: from any lot line. D. .In side or rear yards only bays which do not exceed a depth of 2 feet nor which contain an area of more than 20 s.f.; fire escapes which do not exceed a width of 3 feet; fences and walls which do not exceed a height of 6 feet above original grade, except as regulated hereinafter. E. In rear yard only: accessory structures and equipment such ae balconies, breezeways, detached outdoor picnic shelters and recreational equipment except as regulated hereinafter, when such accessory structures or equipment are located at least 5 feet from a rear lot line. No fence or wall constructed within a rear yard shall exceed a height of 6 feet above original grade. However, for lake- shore lots which by definition do not have a front yard, but have only a "lakeshore yard" and a "rear yard", no fence exceeding 3 —1/2 feec in height is allowed within the required rear yard, except a fence not exceeding 6 feet in height is allowed along the street lot line of lake frontage lots which front on, but are not divided by, a major thoroughfare (if fill is required, the total combined height of both fence and fill shall not exceed 6 feet above the height of the crown of the road). A major thoroughfare for purposes of this section is any Federal, State, or County highway, or any MSA funded City road.