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14. Building. Any structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy.
<br />15. Building Height. A distance to be measured from the mean ground level to the top of a flat
<br />roof, to the mean distance of the highest gable on a pitched or Hp roof, to the deck line of a
<br />mansard roof, to the uppermost point on all other roof types.
<br />16. Building Line. A line measured across the width of the lot at the point where the principal
<br />structure is placed in accordance with setback provisions.
<br />17. Business. Any establishment, occupation, employment or enterprise where merchandise is
<br />manufactured, exhibited or sold, or where services are offered for compensation.
<br />18. Carport. A canopy constructed of metal or other materials supported by posts either ornamental
<br />or solid and completely open on three (3) sides.
<br />19. Cellar. That portion of a building having more than one -Half (1/2) of the floor to ceiling height
<br />below the average land grade.
<br />20. Channel. A natural or artificial depression of perceptible extent, with definite bed and banks
<br />to confine and conduct water either continuously or periodically.
<br />21. Church. A building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, where persons regularly
<br />assemble for religious worship and which building, together with its accessory buildings and uses,
<br />is maintained and controlled by a religious body organized to sustain public worship.
<br />*21.1 Clear- cutting. The removal of an entire stand of trees.
<br />22. Club or Lodge. A club or lodge is a non - profit association of persons who are bonafide members
<br />paying annual dues, use of premises being restricted to members and their guests.
<br />Commercial Recreation. Bowling alley, cart track, jump center, golf, pool hall, dance hall,
<br />skating, trampoline, theater, fire arms range, and similar uses.
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<br />* *23.1 Community Center. Land and /or buildings, owned and used by the City of Little Canada, School
<br />District No. 623, or a church, for educational, recreational, and multiple human service purposes,
<br />which are intended to primarily benefit the residents of the City of Little Canada and the cities which
<br />surround it. "Primarily benefit" means that at least fifty (50 %) percent of the physical facility must
<br />be used by the owner /operator for qualified in -house programs which are designed to service the
<br />residents of the City of Little Canada and the cities which surrourd it. Operating costs may be
<br />defroyed by the rental of the remainder of the facility to non - profit organizations, for the purposes
<br />stated herein, not to exceed ten (10 %) percent of the gross floor area of the facility for any one
<br />lessee. A Community Center may not include any use which is deemed by the City Council to
<br />constitute a detriment to the health, safety and general welfare of the residents of the City.
<br />24. Conditional Use. A use, that because of special control problems the use presents, requires
<br />affectuafion of reasonable, but special, unusual and extraordinary limitations peculiar to the
<br />use for the protection of the public welfare and the integrity of the municipal land use plan.
<br />25. Corditional Use Permit. A permit issued by the Council in accordance with procedures specified
<br />in this Ordinance, as a flexibility device to enable the Council to assign dimensions to a proposed
<br />use or conditions surrounding it after consideration of adjacent uses and their functions and the
<br />special problems which the proposed use presents.
<br />26. Condominium. A multiple dwelling containing individually owned dwelling units and jointly owned
<br />and shared areas and facilities, which dwelling is subject to the provisions of the Minnesota
<br />Condominium Law, Minnesota Statutes, Sections 515.01 and 515.19, as rnay be amended,
<br />27. Convenience Food Establishments. An establishment which serves food in or on disposable or
<br />edible containers in individual servings for consumption on and off the premises.
<br />28, Cooperative (Housing). A multiple family dwelling owned and maintained by the residents and
<br />subject to the provisions of MS 290.09 and 290.13, as may be amended. The entire structure and
<br />real property is under common ownership as contrasted to a condominium dwelling where irdividual
<br />units are under separate individual occupant ownership.
<br />29. Crowding Potential, The ratio of total acreage to shore miles.
<br />30. Day Care. The care of children outside of thelr own homes for a port of the twenty -four (24)
<br />hour day by persons unrelated to them by blood or marriage. Day Cure includes family day care,
<br />group family day care, and care in group -day -care centers
<br />*Amended by Ordinance No. 214, July 27, 1983
<br />**Amended by Ordinance No. 260, July 24, 1985
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