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27.56.075 BUFFERS.

Buffers shall be provided in accordance with the following regulations:

(1) Parcels fronting on a street with at least eighty (80) percent of the frontage directly across the street between two (2) consecutive intersecting streets in a residential district, shall provide a front yard pursuant to the front yard requirements of the residential district;

(2) Side parcel lines coinciding with a side or rear parcel line of a property in a residential district shall provide a side yard equal to the minimum required side yard in the residential district;

(3) Rear parcel lines coinciding with a side parcel line of a parcel in a residential district shall provide a rear yard equal in dimension to the minimum required side yard in the residential district;

(4) Rear parcel lines coinciding with a rear parcel line of a property in a residential district shall provide a rear yard not less than ten (10) feet in depth;

(5) Extensions of front or side parcel lines coinciding with the front parcel line of a property in a residential district, shall provide a yard equal in depth to the minimum required front yard of the residential district for a distance of at least twenty-five (25) feet, including the width of any intervening alley from such the residential parcel line;

(6) Required yards shall be unobstructed from the ground level to the sky;

(7) Fast-food establishments shall be separated from each other and from residential districts by no less than one hundred (100) feet measured from the nearest parcel lines. However, multiple fast-food establishments may be closer than one hundred (100) feet in a shopping center;

(8) Districts adjacent to an open space district shall provide at least a fifteen (15) foot yard.

(9) Required fences or walls. A solid fence or solid wall is required for parcels abutting residential districts as provided in Section 27.84.030 of this title.