As used in this chapter:
(a) “House number” means the number assigned to consecutive intervals along a street pursuant to the Number Assignment Formula contained herein.
(b) “Number Assignment Formula” means beginning from the point of origin a house number shall be assigned for each interval with each interval on the east and north side of the street being even numbers as one leaves the point of origin, and each interval on the south and west side of the street being odd numbers as one leaves the point of origin.
(c) “Primary structure” shall include but not be limited to residential building, manufactured home park, commercial building, industrial building, office building, public building, well, field pump, utility, lighted billboard, and lighted outdoor display/storage facility.
(d) “Interval” means a distance of ten feet along a street, each block being divided into one hundred intervals. The Engineering Department of the City of Bucyrus may modify the intervals and blocks of such streets to allow the numbering system to match existing numbers on parallel streets or in the event of confusion based upon design of the street.
(e) “Point of origin” means the intersection of an east-west baseline and a north-south baseline from where all intervals begin. This point shall be at the intersection of Sandusky Avenue and Mansfield Street at Washington Square.
(f) “Display” means the manner in which the house number is affixed to a structure or otherwise displayed when affixing to a structure is not adequate visually so that it is readily identifiable pursuant to provisions of this chapter.
(g) “Diagonal streets” means streets whose course does not run in either an approximate north-south or east-west direction.
(Ord. 13-2003. Passed 3-18-03.)