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CONDOMINIUM. A multiple family dwelling or development containing individually owned dwelling units and jointly owned and shared areas and facilities, which dwelling or development is subject to the provisions of the Minnesota Condominium Law, Minnesota Statutes sections 515.01 through 515.29. CONDOMINIUM ASSOCIATION. The community association that administers and maintains the common property and common elements of a condominium. CONSTRUCTION. The erection, alteration or extension of a structure. COOPERATIVE HOUSING. A multiple family dwelling owned and maintained by the residents and subject to the provisions of Minnesota Statutes 290.09 and 290.13. The entire structure and real property is under common ownership as contrasted to a condominium dwelling where individual units are under separate individual occupant ownership. CRITICAL AREA. An area with one or more of the following characteristics: (1) slopes in excess of twenty (20) percent; (2) floodplain; (3) soils classified as having a high water table; (4) soils classified as highly erodible, subject to erosion; (5) land incapable of meeting percolation requirements; (6) land formerly used for landfill operations or hazardous industrial use; (7) fault areas; (8) stream corridors; (9) estuaries; (10) mature strands of native vegetation; (11) aquifer recharge and discharge areas. CRITICAL ROOT ZONE (CRZ). An imaginary circle surrounding the tree trunk with a radius distance of one (1) foot per one (1) inch of tree diameter, e.g., a twenty (20) inch diameter tree has a CRZ with a radius of twenty (20) feet. CUL-DE-SAC. (See Street) DAY CARE FACILITY. Any facility licensed by the State Department of Public Welfare, public or private, which for gain or otherwise regularly provides one or more persons with care, training, supervision, habilitation, rehabilitation or developmental guidance on a regular basis, for periods of less than twenty-four (24) hours per day, in a place other than the person's own home. Day care facilities include, but are not limited to, family day care homes, group family day care homes, day care centers, day nurseries, nursery schools, daytime activity centers, day treatment programs and day services, as defined by Minnesota State Statutes, Section 245.782.5. DECK. Horizontal, unenclosed platform with or without attached railings, seats, trellises, or other features, attached or functionally related to a principal use or site and at any point extending above grade. DENSITY. The number of families, individuals, dwelling units, or housing structures per unit of land. In this Ordinance, net density shall mean number of dwelling units per acre of buildable land. Gross density shall mean number of units per acre of the total subject property. 1-17