§ 101-17.003-26 - Gross area.

Gross area means the sum of the floor areas computed by measuring from the normal outside face of exterior walls, disregarding architectural setbacks or projections, cornices, pilasters, and buttresses, and including all stories or areas which have floor surfaces and a clear standing headroom of 61/2 feet or more. Gross area includes basements (except unexcavated portions), attics, garages, roofed porches, mezzanines, loading platforms, shipping platforms, penthouses, mechanical equipment floors, lobbies, and corridors. Suspended postal lookout galleries are not included. Gross area does not include open courts, light wells, upper portions of rooms, lobbies and other areas which rise above the story being measured, drives or ramps extending beyond the principal exterior walls of the building, or unroofed areas such as cooling towers and unenclosed portions of ground level or intermediate stories.