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4. OFFSTREET LOADING REGULATIONS: The following spaces shall be provided for the uses indicated: a. Every hospital, institution, hotel, commercial or industrial building, or similar use, having a floor area in excess of ten thousand (10,000) square feet requiring the receipt or distribution by vehicle of materials and mer- chandise, shall have at least one permanently maintained offstreet loading space for each ten thousand (10,000) square feet of gross floor area or frac- tion thereof. b. Retail operations, wholesale operations, and industrial operations with a gross floor area of less than ten thousand (10,000) square feet, shall provide sufficient space (not necessarily a full berth) so as not to hinder the free movements of vehicles and pedestrians over a sidewalk, street, or alley. c. Each space shall have direct access to an alley or street and shall have the following minimum dime8sions: Length, twenty-five (25) feet; width, twelve (12) feet; height, fourteen (14) feet. 5. PERMANENT RESERVATION: Area reserved for offstreet parking or loading in accordance with the requirements of this section shall not be reduced in area or changed to any other use unless the permitted use which it serves is discontinued or modified, except where equivalent parking or loading space is provided. SECTION 18. GENERAL PROVISIONS: 1. Height Exception: Chimneys, towers, monument spires, radio towers, water tanks, silos, windmills and similar structures may be erected above the height limits herein estab- lished. 2. Clearance: Every part of a required yard shall be open from its lowest point to the sky, unobstructed for the ordinary projection of sills, cornices, ornamental features and eaves; provided, however, that none of the above shall extend into a minimum yard more than 48 inches. 3. Yard Exceptions: In computing the depth of rear yards, the measurement of such depth shall be made to the centerline of the alley, should an alley exist, at the rear of the premises. 4. Above Ground Storage of Gasoline or Other Combustible Fluids: Where an above ground storage of gasoline, petroleum oils, or similar inflammable fluids are permitted, then as to any such facility for storage having a capacity in excess of 500 gallons, there shall be erected and maintained a dyked area surrounding it, and the volume within the dyked area shall be 1-1/4 tim3s the volume of the above ground storage tanks. The minimum width of an earth dyke at the top shall be four (4) feet, side slope to an appropriate angle of repose, and shall be capable of containing the liquid for a minimum of two days. The minimum heights of dykes shall be three (3) feet. Other approved dykes constructed of concrete or other materials shall be permitted; provided, however, that this does not permit the erec- tion of any structure outside of the limits of the set back line of any zone. 5. Non -conforming Uses: The lawful use of a building or premises existing at the time of the adoption of this Resolution shall not be affected by this Resolution although such use does not conform to the provisions of this Resolution and such may be extended throughout the building; provided no structural alterations are made therein, but no such use shall be extended to occupy any land outside such building and no such non -conforming use shall be otherwise enlarged or increased. If such non -conforming use is discontinued for a continu- ous period of not less than ninety days, every future use 'of such building or premises shall be in conformance with the provisions of this Resolution. No non -conforming use that has been destroyed by more than fifty percent can be restored for such continued non -conforming use. The non -conforming setback of a building may, not be structurally altered beyond -14- soOK 9 PAGE 143 FEB 01965