(a) General. Except as otherwise specified, every principal building in the R, B and I Districts shall be subject to the applicable standards for maximum height, minimum lot area, minimum lot area per dwelling unit, maximum floor area ratio, maximum building coverage, minimum yards and minimum courts specified in Section 1161.03.
(b) Maximum Height.
(1) Where the maximum height permitted for a principal building is in relation to the distance from the building line to the center of a street and the lot has frontage on more than one street, the widest of such streets shall determine the maximum height of such principal building.
(2) For the purpose of determining the maximum height of principal buildings in relation to street right-of-way width, such width shall be deemed to include all street right-of-way widths between private property lines on opposite sides, including park or boulevard strips, median strips, esplanades, plazas and pedestrian ways.
(c) Maximum Floor Area Ratio. "Maximum floor area ratio" means total floor area divided by total lot area, and for the purposes of this chapter “floor area” means gross floor area, measured to the outside surface of outside walls, but exclusive of such floor area as may be used for parking facilities within the principal building, and exclusive of such floor area as may be used for incidental service storage, installation of mechanical equipment, penthouses, housing ventilators and heating systems, and similar uses.
(Ord. 1135. Passed 11-26-84.)