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EXTERIOR STORAGE/STORAGE YARDS. An outside area where equipment, vehicles, trailers, or material relating to the principal use of a parcel of land is stored. This includes semi - trucks and trailers. The stored items are not for sale or display but are used in the everyday operation of the principal use. Also referred to as "outdoor storage." Outdoor sales lots are not outdoor storage but are distinct uses regulated by this ordinance. 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 Minnesota Statutes, Sections 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 (excluding servants) 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. A fence is defined for the purpose of this Ordinance as any partition, structure, wall or gate erected as a dividing mark, barrier or enclosure. FENCE, BOUNDARY LINE. All fences located within one (1) foot of a property line. FENCE, INTERIOR YARD. All fences located five (5) feet beyond a property line. FILTER STRIP. A linear strip of land along a lake, wetland, river, creek, or stormwater ponding area where vegetation is established and maintained as a means to slow the velocity of stormwater drainage and to filter sediment and pollutants from the stormwater. FILLING. The act of depositing any rock, soil, gravel, sand or other material on a site. FLOOD. A temporary rise in a stream flow or stage which results in inundation of the areas adjacent to the channel. FLOOD FRINGE. That portion of the floodplain outside of the floodway. FLOODPLAIN. The areas adjoining a watercourse which have been or hereafter may be covered by the regional flood. FLOOD PROFILE. A graph or a longitudinal plot of water surface elevation of a flood event along a reach of a stream or river. FLOODWAY. The channel of the watercourse and those portions of the adjoining floodplains which are reasonably required to carry and discharge the regional flood. 1-20 Th