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DRAFT 1/5/95
<br />Subd. 18. Industrial use. "Industrial use" means the use of land or buildings for the
<br />production, manufacture, warehousing, storage, or transfer of goods, products,
<br />commodities, or other wholesale items.
<br />Subd. 19. Intensive vegetation clearing. "Intensive vegetation clearing" means the
<br />complete removal of trees or shrubs in a contiguous patch, strip, row, or block.
<br />Subd. 20. Lot. "Lot" means a designated parcel, tract or area of land established by
<br />plat, subdivision, or as otherwise permitted by law, to be used developed or built upon
<br />as a unit.
<br />Subd. 21. Lot width. "Lot width" means the horizontal distance between the side
<br />lot lines of a lot measured at the building setback line and parallel to the front lot line.
<br />Subd. 22. Nonconforming Use. "Nonconforming use" means any legal use,
<br />structure or parcel of land already in existence, recorded, or authorized before the
<br />adoption of official controls or amendments thereto that would not have been permitted
<br />to become established under the terms of the official controls as now written, if the official
<br />controls had been in effect prior to the date it was established, recorded or authorized.
<br />Subd. 23. Ordinary high water level. "Ordinary high water level" means the
<br />boundary of public waters and wetlands, and shall be an elevation delineating the highest
<br />water level which has been maintained for a sufficient period of time to leave evidence
<br />upon the landscape, commonly that point where the natural vegetation changes from
<br />predominantly aquatic to predominantly terrestrial.
<br />Subd. 24. Planned development overlay. "Planned development overlay" means
<br />a type of development characterized by a unified site design for a number of dwelling
<br />units or dwelling sites on a parcel, whether for sale, rent, or lease, and also usually
<br />involving dustering of these units or sites to provide areas of common open space, density
<br />increase, and a mix of structure types and land uses. These developments may be
<br />organized and operated as condominiums, time-share condominiums, cooperatives, full
<br />fee ownership, commercial enterprises, or any combination of these, or cluster subdivisions
<br />of dwelling units, residential condominiums, townhouses, apartment buildings,
<br />campgrounds, recreational vehicle parks, resorts, hotels, motels, and conversions of
<br />structures and land uses to these uses.
<br />Subd. 25. Public waters. "Public waters" means any waters as defined in Minnesota
<br />Statutes, section 105.37, subdivisions 14 and 15.
<br />Subd. 26. Residential planned development overlay. "Residential planned
<br />development overlay" means a use where the nature of residency is nontransient and the
<br />major or primary focus of the development is not service-oriented. For example,
<br />residential apartments, manufactured home parks, time-share condominiums, townhouses,
<br />cooperatives, and full fee ownership residences would be considered as residential
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