
At least 1/2 of the floor area of every habitable room shall have a ceiling height of not less than seven feet, and the floor area of that part of any room where the ceiling height is less than five feet shall not be considered as part of the habitable floor area.Īll that space relegated to use by the customer and the retail employee to consummate retail sales, including display areas used to indicate the variety of goods available for the customer, but not to include office space, storage space and other general administrative areas. The aggregate of the horizontal areas of all rooms used for habitation, such as living room, dining room, kitchen and bedroom, but not including hallways, stairways, cellars, attics, service rooms or utility rooms, bathroom, closets nor unheated areas such as enclosed porches nor rooms without at least one window or skylight opening onto an outside yard or court. All dimensions shall be measured between exterior faces of walls. The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the floors of a building or structure and its accessory buildings on the same lot, excluding cellar and basement floor areas not used as primary living and sleeping quarters, but including the area of roofed porches and roofed terraces.
