1123.05 LETTERS G-K.

   As used in this Zoning Code:

   (a)    Garage, Private. "Private garage" means an accessory building or part of the main building used principally for the storage of private passenger motor vehicles, or solely for the private use of the owner or occupant of the principal building on a lot, or of their family or domestic employees and having not more than one story of fifteen feet in height. No service for remuneration may be conducted within the structure.

   (b)   Garage, Repair. “Repair garage” means a main or accessory building used or designed for repairing motor vehicles or a service garage if accessory to an automobile salesroom.

   (c)   Garage, Storage. “Storage garage” means an accessory building, other than a private garage, used for the parking or temporary storage of passenger automobiles and in which no service shall be provided for remuneration.
(Ord. 72-72. Passed 8-31-72.)

   (d)    Garden Center. "Garden center" means a place of business where retail garden and yard products are sold to the consumer, including such products as plants, seeds, planting materials (such as soil, mulch, fertilizer) in containers only, garden hardware and equipment, tools, and related seasonal products such seasonal decorations.
(Ord. 5-2007. Passed 3-13-07.)

   (e)   Gasoline Service Station. “Gasoline service station” means a place for the dispensing, sale or offering for sale of motor fuels directly to users of motor vehicles, together with the sale of minor accessories and the servicing of and minor repair of motor vehicles.

   (f)   Grade. “Grade” means a ground elevation established for the purpose of regulating the number of stories and the height of the building. The building grade shall be the level of the ground adjacent to the walls of the building if the finished grade is level. If the ground is not entirely level, the grade shall be determined by computing the average elevation of the ground for each face of the building, and taking the average of the total averages.

      (1)   “Established street grade” means the elevation established by the City at the street curb in front of the lot.

      (2)   “Finished grade” means the elevation of the finished surface of the ground adjoining the building after final grading and normal settlement.

      (3)   “Natural grade” means the elevation of the undisturbed natural surface of the ground prior to any excavation or fill.

         (Ord. 72-72. Passed 8-31-72.)

   (g)   Gross Leasable Area. “Gross leasable area” means the total floor area designed for tenant occupancy and exclusive use, not including any areas used in common by tenants of a shopping center. Gross leasable area shall be expressed in square feet and shall be measured from the centerline of joint partitions and from outside wall faces.

   (h)   Homes Association. “Homes association” means an incorporated, nonprofit organization operating under recorded land agreements through which each lot owner of a development area is a member, and each lot is subject to charges for a proportionate share of the expenses for the organization’s activities such as maintaining the common property.

   (i)   Hospital. “Hospital” means an installation used primarily for the inpatient medical, surgical, obstetrical or pediatric care and treatment of sick and disabled persons.

   (j)   Hotel. “Hotel” means a building or part of a building, or a group of buildings containing rental units designed for or occupied primarily by transients. The term shall include, but not be limited to, any such building or building group designated as a motor lodge, motor inn, motel or any other title intended to identify it as providing lodging, for compensation.

   (k)   Household. “Household” means any group of persons occupying a single dwelling unit; however, any group of persons, not related by blood or marriage, but inhabiting a single dwelling unit shall, for the purpose of this Zoning Code, be considered to constitute one family for each five persons, exclusive of domestic employees contained in such group.

   (l)   Housing for the Elderly. “Housing for the elderly” means an installation other than a hospital, hotel or nursing home which provides dwelling units primarily for persons sixty years of age or older.

   (m)   Junk Yard or Junk Storage. “Junk yard or junk storage” means the outdoor standing or placement of waste or scrap materials including but not limited to scrap iron or other metals, cans, automobiles, machinery, paper, rubber, rags, tires, lumber, concrete products, building materials or bottles.

      (Ord. 69-98. Passed 9-8-98.)