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"Billboard" means any structure or portion thereof upon which signs or advertisements are used as an outdoor display. This definition does not include bulletin boards used to announce church services, or display court or other public office notices, or signs offering the sale or lease of the premises on which the sign is located.
(Ord. 10-16-67. Passed 11-20-67.)
"Building" means any structure with substantial walls and roof securely affixed to the land and entirely separated on all sides from any other structure by space or by walls in which there are no communicating doors, windows or openings; and which is designed or intended for the shelter, enclosure or protection of persons, animals or chattels.
Any structures with interior areas not normally accessible for human use, such as gas holders, oil tanks, water tanks, grain elevators, coal bunkers, oil cracking towers and other similar structures are not considered as buildings.
(Ord. 10-16-67. Passed 11-20-67.)
"Building height" means the vertical distance measured from the sidewalk level or its equivalent established grade opposite the middle of the front of the building to the highest point of the roof in the case of a flat roof; to the deck line of a mansard roof; and to the mean height level between eaves and ridge of a gable, hip or gambrel roof; provided that where buildings are set back from the street line, the height of the building may be measured from the average elevation of the finished lot grade at the front of the building.
(Ord. 10-16-67. Passed 11-20-67.)
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