As used in this chapter:
(a) "Building" means any structure designed or intended for the support, enclosure, shelter or protection of persons or property.
(b) "Gross floor area" means the total area of all floors of a building, including the basement, measured from the exterior faces of the building. The basement, or portion thereof, may be excluded from the “gross floor area” when such basement area is not open to the public and will not potentially increase the number of users or employees in the building.
(c) "Handicapped person" means any person who has lost the use of one or both legs, one or both arms, who is blind, deaf or so severely handicapped as to be unable to move about without the aid of crutches or a wheelchair, or whose mobility is restricted by a permanent cardiovascular, pulmonary or other handicapping condition.
(d) “Net floor area” means the actual occupied area not including unoccupied areas such as, but not limited to, corridors, stairways, restrooms, mechanical rooms, storage areas, closets and kitchen areas.
(e) “Off-street loading space” means space logically and conveniently located for both pick-ups and deliveries, scaled to delivery vehicles expected to be used and accessible to such vehicles when required off-street parking spaces are filled. Required off-street loading space shall not be included as off-street parking space in the computation of required off-street parking space. An off-street loading space shall be located totally outside of any street.
(f) “Off-street parking space” means an area adequate for parking an automobile with room for opening doors on both sides, together with properly related access to a public street, or maneuvering room, but located totally outside of any street or right of way.
(g) “Outlot” means a single-use building and its requisite parking that is placed on a shopping center site in an independent location that has no or little convenient pedestrian connection or visual continuity with the primary shopping center buildings and functions. “Outlots” are typically (but not required to be) located at the front of the site near existing public streets.
(h) “Restaurant, counter service” means a retail service establishment whose principal business is the sale of foods, frozen desserts, or beverages in ready-to-consume individual servings, for consumption either within the restaurant building or for carry-out, and where customers are not served their food, frozen desserts, or beverages by a restaurant employee at the same table or counter where the items are consumed.
(i) “Restaurant, table service” means a retail service establishment wherein the entire business activity, or substantially all of the business activity, consists of the sale of food and service to patrons seated at tables for consumption within the building.
(j) “Seat” means the number of seating units installed or indicated or each twenty- four lineal inches of benches, pews or space for loose chairs.
(k) “Shopping center” means a group of architecturally unified commercial establishments built on a site that is planned, developed and managed as a single operating unit, but, for the purposes of this section, does not include outlots.
(l) “Structural alterations” means any change in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders.
(m) “Structure” means anything constructed or erected, the use of which requires a location on the ground or an attachment to something having a fixed location on the ground. “Structure” includes but is not limited to, buildings, mobile homes, walls, fences and signs.
(Ord. 1987-10. Passed 4-13-87; Ord. 2006-52. Passed 2-12-07; Ord. 2013-12. Passed 10-14-13.)