(A) No person, firm or corporation shall locate, build, construct, operate or maintain any business or structure of any kind, for which frontage consents are required, in any block in the city where a majority of the houses abutting on both sides of the street in the block are used exclusively for residence purposes, without having first secured the written consent of the owners of a majority of the frontage abutting on such street on both sides within such block.
(B) The term BLOCK as used in this section shall be construed to mean and include that portion of the street between the two intersections with other public streets nearest the specified location on each side; provided that if, on either or both sides of such location there is not an intersection within 300 feet of the center of the specified location, the block shall be considered as terminating at a point 300 feet from such center. The term STREET as used in this section shall be construed to mean and include such highways as have been dedicated either by common law or statutory dedication as public streets and are actually in use as such; and the term STREET shall not be construed to include or mean merely service highways which are commonly known as alleys.
(Prior Code, § 10-1-9) Penalty, see § 10.99