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Community means the City of Falcon Heights except as otherwise indicated. <br />Comprehensive municipal plan means the policies, statements, goals, and interrelated plans <br />for private and public land and water use, transportation and community facilities, including <br />recommendations for planned execution, documented in texts, ordinance, code and maps, which <br />constitute the guide for the future development of the community or any portion of community, <br />as on file with the city planning commission. This shall include the city comprehensive plan and <br />all subsequent amendments, additions, and elements developed as per requirements of the <br />Metropolitan Land Planning Act (Minn. Stats. §§ 473.851—473.871) <br />Computer programming, and data processing services means establishments primarily <br />engaged in providing computer programming and data preparation and processing services. <br />Establishments of this industry perform a variety of additional services, such as computer <br />software design and analysis; modifications of custom software; and training in the use of <br />custom software. Also included are application software programming, computer code authors, <br />computer programs or systems software development (custom), computer software writers <br />(freelance), software programming, calculating service, computer time-sharing, data entry, data <br />processing, data verification, keypunch, leasing of computer time, optional scanning, rental of <br />computer time, service bureaus (computer), and tabulating. <br />Conditional use means a use which is generally appropriate in a specified zoning district but <br />requires special planning considerations and, in certain instances, unusual and extraordinary <br />limitations peculiar to the use for the protection of the public health, safety and welfare or the <br />integrity of the Falcon Heights comprehensive plan. <br />Condominium. See Dwelling, multiple or apartment building. <br />Convenience store means a retail establishment that generally sells a limited range of food <br />products, nonprescription drugs, candy and other perishable goods. This includes soda and <br />similar beverage dispensing and food products, which can be heated and/or prepared on site. <br />Council means the governing body of the City of Falcon Heights, Minnesota. <br /> Curb level means the grade elevation of the curb in front of the center of the building. Where no <br />curb has been established, the city engineer shall determine a curb level or its equivalent for the <br />purpose of this chapter. <br />Dance studios, schools and halls means establishments primarily engaged in operating <br />dance studios, schools, and public halls or ballrooms. <br />Depth of lot means the horizontal distance between the frontage right-of-way line and rear <br />lot line. On a corner lot, the side with the largest frontage is its depth, and the side with the lesser <br />frontage is its width. <br />Depth of rear yard means the horizontal distance between the rear building line and the rear <br />lot line. <br />Development means any manmade change to real estate, including but not limited to <br />construction or reconstruction of buildings, installing manufactured homes or travel trailers, <br />installing utilities, construction of roads or bridges, erection of levees, walls, or fences, drilling, <br />mining, filling, dredging, and storage of materials. <br />Disposal area, on-site sewage treatment means that ground within the confines of the lot <br />that does not contain buildings and has an elevation of at least 80 inches above the highest <br />known or calculated water table or bedrock formation; does not slope in excess of 13 percent; <br />and meets the requirements of permeability as determined by the rate of water percolation in the