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"Bed and breakfast inn" means a residential structure providing individuals with lodging and meals for not more than fifteen days and containing not more than five guest rooms used to provide temporary travelers' accommodations and meals for a fee.

"Beverage industries" means the production, processing and/or packaging of milk, soft drinks, beer, wine, fruit juices and other drinks.

Bingo Parlor. See "game room."

"Block" means all property fronting upon one side of a street between intersecting and intercepting streets, or between a street and a railroad right-of-way, water way, terminus or dead-end street, or city boundary. An intercepting street shall determine only the boundary of the block on the side of the street which it intercepts.

"Boarding or lodging house" means one or more buildings with not more than five guest rooms where lodging and meals may be provided for compensation for not more than ten persons, but shall not include apartments, family home services, health care facilities, daycare centers, residential care facilities. Any number of guest rooms over five shall be considered an overnight lodging facility.

Building. See "structure."

"Building area" means the three-dimensional space within which a structure is permitted to be built on a lot and which is defined by maximum height regulations, yard setbacks and maximum lot coverage.

"Building height" means the vertical distance above a reference datum measured to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof or to the deck line of a mansard roof or to the average height of the highest gable of a pitched or hipped roof. The reference datum shall be selected by either of the following, whichever yields a greater height of building:

(1) The elevation of the highest adjoining sidewalk or finished ground surface within a five-foot horizontal distance of the exterior wall of the building when such sidewalk or finished ground surface is not more than ten feet above the lowest finished grade;

(2) An elevation ten feet higher than the lowest finished grade when the highest sidewalk or finished ground surface described in subsection (1) of this definition is more than ten feet above the lowest finished grade. The height of a stepped or terraced building is the maximum height of any segment of the building.

"Building official" means the city administrator and/or his designee. (Ord. 2065, § 2 (Exh. A), 2019; Ord. 2046, § 2 (Exh. A), 2018; Ord. 1879, § 1, 2012; Ord. 1634, § 194, 2004.)