§ 156-12. Height.

A. 

Chimneys (other than chimneys for central heating plants), flues, ventilators, skylights, towers, bulkheads, water tanks, cooling towers and all other decorative features and necessary mechanical appurtenances and similar features usually carried above the roof level, but excluding telegraph, radio and television transmission or broadcasting antennas, shall be exempt from the height provisions of this chapter, provided that:

(1) 

The aggregate area covered by all such features, but excluding solar-heating features, shall not exceed 20% of the area of the roof of the building of which they are a part.

(2) 

The height of each such feature shall not exceed 15 feet above the level of such roof measured at the highest point of such roof.

(3) 

All such features shall be constructed or enclosed within walls of a material and design deemed by the Planning Board to be in harmony with that of the main walls of the building of which they are a part.

B. 

Where the height of a building conforms to the requirements of this chapter on that side or sides thereof which face(s) the street, but where, due to the topography of the lot, said height is in excess of said requirements along one or more sides of such building other than the side or sides which face(s) the street, the Building Inspector may issue a building permit, provided that at no point along the periphery of the building does the height thereof exceed by 10 feet and/or by one story, the maximum height prescribed by this chapter for the district in which such building is located. (See definition of "height of building" in § 156-8.)

C. 

A cable television receiving antenna owned and operated by a public utility franchised by the Town of Carmel shall be exempt from the height provisions of this chapter, provided that it does not exceed a height of 125 feet.

[Added 11-30-1983]