Ordinance 1809•
Ordinance No. 1809
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CUPERTINO AMENDING CHAPTER 19.08, DEFINITIONS, OF THE
CUPERTINO MUNICIPAL CODE
The City Council of the City of Cupertino does hereby ordain that Chapter 19.08 of the
Cupertino Municipal Code is amended to read as follows:
"Attic" means an area between the ceiling and roof of a structure, which is unconditioned (not
heated or cooled) and uninhabitable.
"Entry feature" means a structural element, which leads to an entry door.
"Floor Area" means the total area of all floors of a building measured to the outside surfaces of
exterior walls, and including the following:
1. Halls;
2. Base of stairwells;
3. Base of elevator shafts;
4. Services and mechanical equipment rooms;
5. Interior building area above I S' in height between any floor level and the ceiling above;
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6. In all zones except residential, permanently roofed, but tither partially enclosed or
unenclosed building features used for sales, service, display, storage or similar uses.
"Floor area" shall not include the following:
1. Basement or attic azeas;
2. Pazking facilities, other than residential garages, accessory to a permitted conditional use and
located on the same site;
3. Roofed arcades, plazas, walkways, porches, breezeways, porticos, courts, and similar features
. not substantially enclosed by exterior walls.
"Height" means, unless otherwise established by a city approved grading plan which is part of a
subdivision map approval, the vertical distance measured from the natural grade to the highest
point of exterior construction, exclusive of chimneys, antennas or other appurtenances except
entry features which are measured to the top of the wall plate.
Melgh[ Um[ far Entry Features
"Offset" means the indentation or projection of a wall plane.
• This ordinance shall take effect and be in force on June 3, 1999.
INTRODUCED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Cupertino the 5'"
day of April 1999, and ENACTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of
Cupertino the 19°i day of April, 1999, by the following vole:
Vote: Members of the City Council
Ayes: BURNETT, CHANG, STATTON, DEAN
Noes: NONE
Absent: JAMES
Abstain: NONE
ATTEST: APPROVED:
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City Clerk Mayor, City Cupertino
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA )
CITY OF CUPERTINO )
I, KIMBERLY SMITH, City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk of the City
Council of the City of Cupertino, California, do hereby certify the attached
to be a true and corre/ct copy of Ordinanc(~e No. _ j:~ LY ,which
was enacted on ~ ~(,~(1 ~~-~ ~ ~~, (~ /
y ,and that it has
been published or posted pursuant to law (G.C. 40806).
tN WITNESS WHEREOF, (have hereunto set my hand and seal this
,-?4 Xti day of ~-~7r, / , 19 99 .
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KIMBERLY SMITH, City Clerk and Ex-officio Clerk
of the City Council of the City of Cupertino, California