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City of Lino Lakes - ZONING ORDINANCE • Terrace. A raised flat area with sloping sides or sides held by retaining walls, unroofed and landscaped or surfaced. Tool Shed. A small one-story accessory building used or intended for the storage of hobby tools and garden equipment. Topography. The configuration of a surface area showing relative elevations. Townhouses. Structure housing three (3) or more dwelling units contiguous to each other only by the sharing of one (1) common wall, such structures to be of the town or row houses type as contrasted to multiple dwelling apartment structures. No single structure shall contain in excess of twelve (12) dwelling units and each dwelling unit shall have separate and individual front and rear entrances. Travel Trailer. A recreational vehicle that is towed by a car or a truck. Trucking Terminal. An area and building where cargo is stored and where trucks load and unload cargo on a regular basis. Variance. A modification of the strict provisions of this Ordinance as applied to a • specific piece of property in order to provide relief for a property owner because of undue hardship imposed upon the property by this Ordinance. A variance shall normally be limited to height, density and yard requirements. A modification in the allowable uses within a district shall not be considered a variance. Wading Pool. An above -ground or in -ground structure containing less than thirty (30") inches of water. Warehouse. A building used primarily for the storage of goods and materials. Warehousing. Terminal facilities for handling freight with or without maintenance facilities. Water body. A body of water (lake, pond) or a depression of land or expanded part of a river, or an enclosed basin that holds water and surrounded by land. Watershed. The area drained by the natural and artificial drainage system, bounded peripherally by a bridge or stretch of high land dividing drainage areas. Wetlands. An area where water stands near, or above the soil surface during a significant portion of most years, saturating the soil and supporting a 41 predominantly aquatic form of vegetation, and which may have the following characteristics: i - -)O