(a)

A basement has less than one-half its height below grade; a cellar has more than one-half its height below grade. If a basement is subdivided and used for dwelling purposes it is counted as a story; a cellar is not.

(b)

The height of a building is the vertical distance from the grade to:

(1)

The highest point of a flat roof.

(2)

The deck line of a mansard roof, or

(3)

The average height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs.

(c)

Grade is the average level of the finished surface of the ground for buildings more than five feet from a street line. For buildings closer than five feet to a street the grade is the sidewalk elevation at the center of the building. If there is no sidewalk the City Engineer shall establish the sidewalk grade.

(d)

A story is the part of a building from one floor to the next floor above or to a ceiling above if there is no floor above. A half-story is space under a sloping roof; all of which space must be at least three feet high but not more than 60 per cent of which floor area may be finished off for use.

(Ord. No. 3437, § 1, 9-15-97)

(a)

Two and one-half stories or 35 feet in the R-A, R-1 and R-2 Districts.

(b)

Three stories or 45 feet in the R-3 and C-1 Districts.

(c)

Eight stories or 100 feet in the C-2 District; provided that where a lot in the C-2 District is adjacent to a lot in a R District, the building shall be set back from such a lot line one foot for each six feet of building height.

(d)

There are no height regulations in the M Districts except as provided hereinafter.

(e)

Height in the RGD-1 District shall be regulated by the site plan.

(Ord. No. 3295, § 4, 3-4-96)

(a)

If a public building, church, temple, hospital, institution or school is set back an additional foot over the yards required in Part 4 it may be increased in height two feet over the height limit of Section 3.2 up to a limit of 70 feet.

(b)

Chimneys, church steeples, cooling towers, elevator bulkheads, fire towers, monuments, stacks, stage towers, or scenery lofts, tanks, water towers, ornamental towers, spires, radio and television towers, grain elevators or necessary mechanical appurtenances, are exempt from height regulations.

(c)

Buildings in the C-1 District may be increased in height one foot for each foot that the building is set back from all required yard lines.

(d)

Those parts of existing buildings that violate height regulations may be repaired and remodeled, but may not be reconstructed or structurally altered.