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<br />City of Little Canada – Accessory Structure Ordinance Updates <br />Planning Commission Meeting – October 23, 2025 <br />32 <br />E. Bulk <br />1. Building Coverage <br />Building coverage is a measure of intensity of a use of land that represents the portion of a site <br />that is covered by building footprint, as well as attached porches, decks, and balconies. <br />Building coverage does not include driveways, streets, sidewalks, and any other areas covered <br />by an impervious surface material, including areas of outdoor storage. <br />2. Building Size <br />Building size is the total floor area located inside exterior walls and covered by a roof. <br />3. Building Footprint <br />Building footprint is the horizontal area of a building as measured at grade and bounded by <br />the exterior walls. Building footprint includes attached garages and enclosed porches but does <br />not include roof overhangs, awnings, unenclosed steps, decks, or patios. Detached accessory <br />structures are not included in the footprint of the principal building. <br />4. District Size <br />The minimum size, in acres, of a base or overlay zoning district, including streets, rights-of- <br />way, and open space areas, but excluding unbuildable lands. <br />5. Floor Area <br />The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the floors of a building measured from the exterior <br />faces of the exterior walls or from the centerline of walls separating two buildings, and <br />excluding the following: <br />a. Attic areas with a headroom of less than seven feet; <br />b. Unenclosed stairs or fire escapes; <br />c. Elevator structures; <br />d. Cooling towers; <br />e. Areas devoted to machinery and equipment for air conditioning, ventilation, <br />heating, and other similar building service needs; <br />f. Structured parking; and <br />g. Basement space not used for retailing activities, the production or processing of <br />goods, or for business or professional offices. <br />F. Height <br />1. Building Height <br />The vertical distance from the natural grade measured either at the curb level or at a point 10 <br />feet away from the front center of the structure or building, whichever is closer, to the top of <br />the highest point of the roof on a flat or shed roof, the deck line on a mansard roof, and to the <br />mean height between eaves and ridge for gable, hip and gambrel roofs. <br />2. Building Story <br />a. The space between the surface of any floor and the surface of the next floor above it; or <br />if there is no floor above it, the space between the floor surface and the top of the ceiling <br />joists or roof rafters above it. Typically, story height in a residential structure is nine <br />feet per story, and story height in a non-residential structure is twelve feet per story. <br />Commented [BH57]: 918.060 - E <br />Commented [BH58]: Not defined currently. <br />Commented [BH59]: Size = Floor area. <br />Footprint = Coverage <br />Commented [BH60]: Measuring to the midpoint on <br />sloped roofs is the standard as it otherwise incentivizes flat <br />roofs.