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-8- on the area as well as the raising thereon of the usual farm poultry and farm animals such as horses, cattle, sheep and SW1ne, and including dairy farms with the necessary accessory uses for treating and storing the produce; provided, however, that the operation of such accessory use shall be secondary to that of the normal activities; and provided further, that it does not include the conunercial feeding of offal or garbage to swine or other animals. 45. Fraternal Organization: A social club or association having meeting facilities for the members, not including residential facilities and/or sleeping quarters. Fraternal buildings include any such facility. 46. Fraternity or sorority: A social club or association having meeting facilities for the members. A fraternity or sorority house may have dormitory facilities for its members. Any such fraternity or sorority house shall be deemed a rooming house, boarding house, or group home, depending upon the circumstances in each instance. The office or headquarters of a professional, business or other fraternal organization shall be considered as an office for the purposes of this chapter. 47. Garage apartment: A separate dwelling unit attached to or situated above a private garage. 48. Garage, conunercial: A building or premises used for storage, repair, rental or servicing of motor vehicles. 49. Garage, private: An accessory building or a portion of the main building in which motor driven vehicles are stored by occupants of the premises. 50. Gasoline service station: A place where gasoline or oil and grease or accessories are sold, supplied or dispensed to the retail motor vehicle trade, and where minor repairs on motor vehicles are conducted; also known as gasoline filling station. 51. Grocery store: A retail establishment selling meats, fruit, vegetables, bakery products, dairy products and similar items. 52. Guest house: An accessory building designed for the temporary occupancy of guests of the primary dwelling for which there is no remuneration. 53. Height: The height of a building or portion of a building shall be the vertical distance from grade to the highest point of the coping of a flat roof, the deckline of a mansard roof, and the mean height level between eaves and ridge for hip, gable or gambrel roofs. In measuring the height of a building, the following structures shall be excluded: Chimneys, cooling towers, elevator bulkheads, mechanical rooms, tanks, water towers, radio tower, television antennas, ornamental cupolas, domes or spires, and parapet walls not exceeding four ( 4) feet in height.