§ 53-4. Building restrictions.

It shall be the duty of the board of parks and recreation commissioners, and they shall have the power, to recommend to the council the enactment of ordinances, and the council may pass ordinances establishing restrictions as to the use of lands abutting upon and adjacent to parks, parkways and boulevards, or other highways under the control of the board and within 150 feet thereof. Such restrictions may exclude the erection of, and may regulate the use and character of, houses or buildings or other structures within such areas and within any part thereof; and may restrain and prohibit the carrying on of manufacturing, storage or other business enterprises of any kind, or of certain kinds of businesses, within such areas and within any part thereof, and may regulate or exclude billboards, gas tanks and gasoline filling stations within such areas or any part thereof, and may regulate and prescribe the height and bulk of buildings and the area of any tract of land that may be occupied by buildings or structures within such areas and in any part thereof, and the uses to which they may be put. Whenever the board shall recommend to the council an ordinance establishing or extending a park, parkway or boulevard, it may recommend the establishment at the same time of such restrictions named in this section, or any of them, in the use of land fronting or abutting on or adjacent to the proposed park, parkway or boulevard.

(Ord. No. 120096, § 1, 2-9-12)