DESCRIPTION
A raised platform with stairs that provides access to a building entrance.
STANDARDS
- Porches may be partially or fully enclosed.
- Porches may be projecting, engaged, or integral.
- Porches may wrap around corners to attach to porches, galleries, decks, or balconies on abutting building faces.
- Stairs may extend off the front or side of the porch, except when a porch is located on an upper floor in which case the stairs cannot be located along the primary frontage.
- When built on an upper floor, porches must be supported from below by a porch, arcade, or other supporting component; or visually supported by brackets, corbels, or beams along its full depth.
- When built at the first floor, the space between piles or piers must be enclosed with latticework or similar material, or concealed visually by evergreen landscaping, on all sides.
DIMENSIONS
| Setback from facade |
n/a |
| Width (A) |
No more than the width of the |
| adjoining building face |
|
| Projection (B) |
6 ft min, 12 ft max |
| Absolute Height |
n/a |
| Fenestration |
60% min when enclosed |
| Height (C) |
7 ft min |
| Length |
n/a |
| Area |
n/a |
| Eave Height |
n/a |
| Gable End Setback |
n/a |
| Top Plate Height |
n/a |