(a) "Parking space" means an area of not less than 180 square feet, exclusive of drives, for the storage of each car. It may be either open land or within a structure. The parking space shall be located adjacent to the main building it is to serve, except where no other vacant land is available it may be located within 500 feet of such building measured from the nearest points and may be located across an alley or street but not across a major thoroughfare.
(b) "Floor area", for merchandising, service, amusement and assembly places or similar types of uses, means the total floor area used, or intended to be used, for service to the public as customers, patrons, clients, patients or as tenants and includes areas occupied by fixtures and equipment used for display or sale of merchandise. It shall not include floor areas used principally for nonpublic purposes such as the storage, packaging of merchandise or laboratory work.
"Floor area", for business and professional offices, clinics, manufacturing or used in determining amount of parking in large scale operations, means the gross floor area of the building occupied. It shall include all the area enclosed within the exterior walls on each floor of the building.
(c) "Seat" means the number of seats installed or indicated on each twenty lineal inches of benches, pews, space for loose chairs or similar seating facilities.
(d) Unit of Measure. The schedule of tables for determining the number of parking spaces shall be construed in each case as meaning that one additional space shall be provided where the computation results in a fractional space unit.
(Ord. 9-1976. Passed 1-26-76.)