In the Davis R-1 one-family district, Municipal Code 40.03.060 requires a twenty-foot front yard, a twenty-foot rear yard, five-foot interior side yards, and fifteen-foot street side yards.
DMC 40.03.060 sets the yard (setback) standards for the Residential One-Family (R-1) district. The minimum front yard is twenty feet, reduced to ten feet where a street has an adopted corridor plan. The minimum rear yard is twenty feet, increasing to twenty-five feet for any portion of a building over one story or over twenty feet in height. Interior side yards are five feet in the R-1-6 and R-1-8 zones with a combined total of twelve feet for both sides; the R-1-15 zone requires eight-foot interior side yards totaling twenty feet. Street side yards are fifteen feet. Permitted projections into required yards, such as eaves and fences, are governed by Section 40.27.060. Other residential and commercial districts have their own
Building or expanding a structure within a required setback without an approved variance or modification is a zoning violation subject to code enforcement and possible correction orders.
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