For the purpose of this chapter the following words and phrases shall have the following meanings ascribed to them respectively.
(A) ACCESSORY USE. A use customarily incidental and subordinate to the principal use of a building located on the same lot with the principal use of the building.
(B) BASEMENT. The portion of a building located partly underground but having less than one-half its clear floor to ceiling height below the average grade of the adjoining ground.
(C) CELLAR. The portion of a building located partly or wholly under-ground but having one-half or more than one-half of its clear floor to ceiling height below the average grade of the adjoining ground.
(D) COMMERCIAL ESTABLISHMENT. The following activities of commerce or commercial activities located in the city:
(1) FOOD ESTABLISHMENT. A building or premises or a portion thereof, the principal use of which is for the sale or dispensing or distribution or storage of food or foodstuff off the premises and out of the building.
(2) SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT. A building or premises or a portion thereof, the principal use of which is for the rendering of personal or material services for profit, the wholesale distribution or storage of material goods or chattels, the sale or servicing or storage of motor equipment, the washing or cleaning or dyeing or repair of fabrics or wearing apparel or footwear on the premises, the storage or assembly or distribution or servicing or repair of building materials or electrical equipment or mechanical equipment, the storage or distribution of fuels or petroleum products, the services of printing or blueprinting or photocopying or multilithing or publishing or duplicating or similar reproduction services, the provision of facilities for instruction or training or participating in or presentation of the fine arts, or athletic skills or dexterity or physical skills or dexterity.
(3) AMUSEMENT. Any theatrical, dramatic, musical or spectacular performance, motion picture show, circus, rodeo, animal act, athletic contest, sport, coin-operated music box, juke box, games of skill, golf practice, gun ranges, or similar exhibition, and includes, without being limited thereto, poultry, animal and flower shows, skating, dancing, swimming, racing, or riding on animals or vehicles, baseball, basketball, softball, football, tennis, golf, hockey, track and field games, bowling, billiard and pool games, and any other exhibition, performance and entertainment not herein named, shown, exhibited or staged within the corporate limits of the city and for which an admission charge is made.
(E) FLOOR AREA. The sum total of the gross horizontal areas of all of the several floors of a building and its accessory buildings measured in square feet from the exterior faces of the exterior walls or from the center line of party walls separating two buildings or business establishments on each of the respective floors and shall include the basement floor, cellar floor, elevator shafts and stairwells at each floor, motor vehicle parking space when the space is primarily used in conjunction with a drive-in commercial establishment, and commercial establishments devoted to the sale, service or repair of motor vehicles, floor space used for mechanical equipment, whether open or enclosed, including any equipment as may be located on the roof, penthouse, attic space, balconies, mezzanines, porches and verandas, floor areas devoted to and occupied by accessory uses. In computing the floor area, there shall not be included open area devoted to motor vehicular parking at a drive-in commercial establishment engaged in the sale, service, or repair of motor vehicles, which does not exceed the two square feet of parking required by ordinance of the city for each square foot of commercial building; further, it shall not include open area devoted to the loading or storage of materials, roof area not occupied by equipment, mechanical equipment, tanks, and the like.
(F) OWNER. Any individual, firm, association, partnership, corporation, trust, or any other legal entity having sufficient proprietary interest in a commercial establishment to maintain and manage its operation.
(Ord. O-14-74, passed 4-2-74)