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SECTION 10.01 DEFINITIONS 1. (4) Apartment House Complex: A group of apartment houses, located on a single parcel of land with certain facilities., such as driveways, parking spaces and the like, common to the buildings in the.complex. Apartment house complexes comprised of one hundred or more units may include a restaurant, grocery store, drug store, personal service shop and the like for the convenience of residents in the - complex. (5) Bearings: For the purpose of property descriptions in this ordinance, when the bearings north, south, east and west are used, they shall be construed as relative or approximate; and construed as following section lines, quarter section lines, quarter quarter section lines, or lines parallel to or.at right angles-to such lines, or following mapped property lines or highway lines run= ning approximately.in.the direction indicated. Where exact bearings are_ critical or significant to the description the exact bearing,will be used. (6) Block: That property abutting on one side of a street between the nearest intersecting street, railroad right of way or other natural barriers; providing, however, that where a street curves so that arty two chords thereof form.an angle of one hundred twenty (120) degrees or less, measured on -the lot side, such curve shall be construed as a connecting street.. (7) Boarding House: A building or premises where meals are,served by pre- arrangement for definite periods of time for compensation for five (5) or more persons, but not exceeding twenty (20) persons, not open to transients, in con- tradictinction to hotels and restaurants open to transients. (8) Building: Anything erected or constructed,-the use of which requires more or less permanent location on the ground. The building area of a building shall be that area bounded by the exterior dimensions of the outer walls at the ground Line. (9) Building Height: The vertical distance,: measured from the mean elevation of the finished grade along the front of the building to the highest point on . the roof for flat roofs; to the mean height level between the eaves and the ridge for gable and hip roofs; to the deck line for mansard roofs.. (10) Building Site Area: The ground area of a building or buildings, to- gether with all open spaces required by this ordinance. (11) Camp Site or Camping Grounds:. An area or premises providing facilities for overnight or short term campers in tents, camping trailers or trailers, together with necessary accessory buildings and service facilities which may be necessary for water supply and waste disposal:., and such other facilities as may be required by the state board of health, together with a residence or living quarters for the owner or caretaker on the premises. Such camping grounds must be supervised during the season they are open to the public. (12) Club: An association for some common purpose, but not including a. group organized for or which is actually engaged in rendering -a service which is customarily carried on as a business. A road house or tavern shall not be construed as a club. 2