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office of the county recorder, may be used as a legal building site, subject to the conditions, limitations, and restrictions governing the district in which it is located. (b) The following exception to yard requirements shall be applied with respect to all buildings, structures, and uses permitted in the A 1, RE, R1, R2, R3, and P districts; where forty (40) per cent or more of the lots along any block, excluding reverse corner lots and key lots, are developed with buildings, the required front yard for any new building or alteration to an existing building shall be not less than the arithmetical average of the front yards of said buildings. In computing said average front yard, main buildings situated entirely on the rear one-half (1/2) of any lot along said block shall not be included. Notwithstanding this subsection, no front yard shall be less than twenty (20) feet from a front property line. (c) In any commercial district, the front and side yards required for dwellings, apartments, hotels and boardinghouses may be waived when such uses are erected above the ground floor of a building when said ground floor has no required front and side yard. Section 23. Section 41-604 is hereby amended to read as follows: Sec. 41-604. Same--Through lots. (a) At each end of a through lot there shall be a front yard of a depth required by this chapter for the district in which the respective street frontage is located; provided, however, that there may be an accessory building in one of such front yards in accordance with subsection (c) following. (b) Where a through lot has depth of one hundred fifty (150) feet or more, said lot may be assumed to be two (2) lots with the rear line of each approximately equidistant from the front lot lines; provided, however, that each portion shall then be treated as a separate lot insofar as the provisions of this chapter apply, and provided that such lots were recorded and held under separate ownership prior to December 31, 1939. (c) Where a through lot has depth of less than one hundred fifty (150) feet, an accessory building not exceeding one (1) story or fourteen (14) feet in height may be located in one of the required front yards if such building is at least five (5) feet from any side lot line and a distance of at least ten (10) per cent of the lot depth from the street line abutting the front yard in which such building is to be located; Ordinance No. NS-XXXX Page 14 of 22 11A-14