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(D) Floor Area-The term "Floor Area" shall mean the sum of all floor area in a building as calculated from the outside dimensions of the building. It shall not include areas used primarily as building utility rooms, toilets or rest rooms, dressing, fitting or alteration roans, coolers, window displays, or lobbies. (E) Hospital Bassinets-In hospitals, bassinets shall not be counted as beds. (F) Benches in places of public assembly-in stadiums, sport arenas, churches, and other places of public assembly in which patrons or spectators occupy benches, pews, or other similar seating facilities, each twenty-two (22) inches of such seating facilities shall be counted as one (1) seat for the purpose of determining requirements for off-street parking facilities under this Ordinance. (G) Parking spaces-each parking space shall be not less than nine (9) feet wide and twenty (20) feet in length exclusive of an adequately designed system of access drives. (H) Use of parking facilities-off street parking facilities accessory to residential use shall be utilized solely for the parking of passenger automobiles and/or one truck not to exdeed seven thousand (7000) pounds gross capacity for each dwelling. Under no circumstances shall re- quired parking facilities accessory to residential structures be used for the storage of commercial vehicles or for the parking of auto- mobiles belonging to the employees, owners, tenants or customers of nearby business or manufacturing establishments. (I) Spaces accessory to one and two-family dwellings on the same lot as the principal use served. (J) Joint parking facilities-off-street parking facilities for a combi- nation of mixed buildings, structures, or uses may be provided col- lectively in any "District" (except Residential Districts) in which separate parking facilities for each separate building, structure or use would be required, provided that the total number of spaces provided shall equal the sum of the separate requirements of each use during any peak hour parking period. (K) Control of off-street parking facilities-when required accessory off-street parking facilities are provided elsewhere than on the lot in which the principal use served is located, they shall be in the same ownership or control either by deed or long-term lease, as the property occupied by such principal use, and the owner of the prin- cipal use shall file a recordable document with the Village requiring the owner and his or her heirs and assigns to maintain the required number of off-street spaces during the existence of said principal use. (L) Use of parking area-required off-street parking space in any District shall not be utilized for open storage of goods or for the storage of vehicles which are inoperable or for sale or for rent. 7.05 DESIGN AND MAINTENANCE OF OFF-STREET PARKING AREAS (A) Parking areas-shall be designed so as to provide adequate means of -48-