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specific event or activity, as requested by the host or sponsor of the event, or as requested by or <br />on behalf of any person attending the event, or deemed necessary by city staff in order to <br />maintain public safety. Special services shall include, but not be limited to, any of the following: <br />street closures; requiring police officers to stop or reroute traffic; special police protection; <br />stationing emergency vehicles at or in the immediate vicinity of the event; exclusive use of city <br />streets as a staging area or for event parking; additional street cleaning and garbage removal <br />services; special signage, such as temporary no parking signs; the use of any city building, <br />equipment or other property for any purpose other than the normal daily operations of the city; or <br />the city otherwise providing exclusive services. <br />Story (floor) means that portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and <br />the surface of the floor next above. A basement shall be counted as a story and a cellar shall not <br />be counted as a story. For purposes of this chapter, a story shall also include each multiple of 12 <br />feet between the ground and eave. <br />Street means a public right-of-way that affords a primary means of access to abutting <br />property. <br />Street, collector, means a street that serves or is designed to serve as a trafficway for a <br />neighborhood or as a feeder to a major road or as designated on the comprehensive municipal <br />plan. <br />Street, major or thoroughfare, means a street which serves or is designed to serve heavy <br />flows of traffic and which is used primarily as a route for traffic between neighborhoods and/or <br />other heavy traffic-generating areas or as designated on the comprehensive municipal plan. <br />Street, minor, means a street intended to serve primarily as an access to abutting properties. <br />Street pavement means the wearing or exposed surface of the roadway used by vehicular <br />traffic. <br />Street width means the width of the right-of-way measured at right angles to the centerline <br />of the street. <br />Structural alteration means any change, other than incidental repairs, which would affect <br />the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams, girders, or <br />foundations. <br />Structure for floodplain management purposes, means a walled and roofed building, <br />including gas or liquid storage tanks, that is principally above ground. The term includes <br />recreational vehicles and travel trailers on site for more than 180 days. <br />Studio means a facility where students study or practice fine arts, pottery, or martial arts. <br />Substantial improvement means any repair, reconstruction or improvement of a structure, the <br />cost of which equals or exceeds 50 percent of the market value of the structure either, (a) before <br />the improvement or repair is started, or (b) if the structure has been damaged, and is being <br />restored, before the damage occurred. For the purposes of this definition "substantial <br />improvement" is considered to occur when the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor, or other <br />structural part of the building commences, whether or not that alteration affects the external <br />dimensions of the structure regardless of the actual work performed. The term does not, <br />however, include either (1) any project for improvement of a structure to comply with existing <br />state or local health, sanitary, or safety code specifications which are solely necessary to assure <br />safe living conditions or (2) any alteration of a "historic structure," provided that the alteration <br />will not preclude the structure's continued designation as a historic structure.