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EXTRACTIVE USE. The use of the land for surface or subsurface removal of sand, gravel, rock, industrial minerals, other non-metallic minerals and peat not regulated under M. S. §93.44 to §93.51. FAMILY. An individual or two (2) or more persons related by blood or marriage or of not more than five (5) persons who need not be related by blood or marriage living together in a dwelling unit. FARM. Real property used for commercial agriculture or horticulture. FEEDLOT. A confined area or structure used for feeding, breeding, or holding livestock for eventual sale in which animal waste may accumulate but not including barns, pens or other structures used in a dairy farm operation. FENCE. Any partition, structure, wall or gate erected as a dividing mark, barrier or enclosure. FILLING. The act of depositing any rock, soil, gravel, sand or other material on a site. FINANCIAL INSTITUTION. An establishment where the principal business is the receipt, disbursement or exchange of funds and currencies, such as: banks, credit unions or savings and loans. FLOOD. A temporary rise in a stream flow or stage which results in inundation of the areas adjacent to the channel. FLOODPLAIN. The areas adjoining a watercourse which have been or hereafter may be covered by the regional flood. FLOOR AREA, GROSS. The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a building or portion thereof devoted to a particular use, as measured from the exterior face of the exterior walls or from the centerline of a common wall of the building or portion thereof devoted to a particular use. FLOOR AREA, NET. The total of all floor areas of a building from the inside perimeter walls, excluding stairwells and elevator shafts, equipment rooms, interior vehicular parking or loading; and all floors below the first or ground floor, except when used or intended to be used for human habitation or service to the public. FOOTPRINT. The horizontal area measured within the outside of the exterior walls and supporting columns of the ground floor of a building or structure. GARAGE. A building or structure, or part thereof, used or intended to be used for the parking and storage of motor vehicles. GARAGE, PRIVATE. A detached accessory building or an attached accessory portion of the principal building which is intended for and used to store the private passenger vehicles of the 19