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zo. (a) A cellar or basements when designed for occupancy as a dwellings shall be counted as a story; when otherwise designed and used it shall not be ;. :ounted as a story. (b) On a corner ~.ot facing two (2) or store frontages, the height shall be oaken from ~ level midway in elevation between the highest curb level and the low- .st curb level; and this height limitation shall apply upon such Lot nat farther than to the 'center of the lot beyond which stay portion of the same lot shall have ~ height limitation similar to that applying upon the property next ad3acent thersto. (c) On a through lot the height limit inc~.uding all exceptions thereto, beginning at either frontage, sl~ali apply to a depth not exceeding one.-half the iepth of the lot. (d) On an interior lot site height Limit, including all exceptions thereto, shall apply to a depth equal to one-.half the depth of the block as measured from frontage to frontage on a line projected through the center of the lot 3:n question. any rear portion of such lot, beyond the center line of the lot, shall have a Height limit similar to that applying upon the lot 3~tediately abutting in the rear thereof. Section 4. HEIGHT .OF PtJBLiC OR,~SFI+I~-PU8I,1C ~tJIi~INGS. Tn any residence oir retail business district., the height ],imitation for public or semi-public build- ings, churches, hospitals, sanitariums or schools may be increased to forty (!;0) feet, but not to exceed three (~) stories, provided that the width of each side ~~ard r4quired by the Schedule o~ Height and Area Regulations for the District in :~hich the building is located, be increased so as to provide that no point in any gall of the building above the height limitation of the District shall be nearer to the vertical plane through a side .lot line than a distance equal to one-third the height of such point above the curb level. Section 5. HEIGHT OF SPECIAL STRUCTURES. In a retail business the height limitation. of the District may be exceeded by structures requiring special design on account of their particular use in coemmerce, (such as chimneys, stacks, detached water or wireless towers, etc.) provided they otherwise comply with the regulations herein prescribed. Section 6. APPURTENAMCES TO BUILDINGS. In any district, chimneys, stacks, elevator bulkheads, penthouses, gas or water towers, cooling towers, stags towers or scenery lefts, wireless towers, and other-necessary mechanical appurte- nances, where permitted by the Use Regulations, and erected upon and as an integral part of the building, may be erected or extended above the height limit of the dis- trict; provided that any such structure shall set back from the vertical plane of :.he permitted building line one (1) foot horizontally for each two (2) feet of