§ 8106-1.3.1. Building heights on flat grades.

The height of any building located on a flat grade is the vertical distance from the grade to the highest point of the roof; this includes A-frame buildings, Quonset huts, geodesic domes and other such buildings that have the roof and walls forming a continuous architectural unit. In the case of a pitched roof, height is measured to the "averaged midpoint" of the roof. This "averaged midpoint" is arrived at by identifying two points ("midpoints") along the roof which are midway between the peak of the highest finished main ridge line(s) and the intersection of the outermost portion of the roof with the upward extensions of the two exterior finished walls running parallel to the main ridge line(s), measuring the distance from these two points to the grade, adding together the two vertical heights from grade to the midpoints, and dividing the result by two.

(Add Ord. 4092—6/27/95; Am. Ord. 4123—9/17/96)