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<br />https://lakeelmo.municipalcodeonline.com/book/print?type=ordinances&name=TITLE_1_GENERAL_PROVISIONS 17/48
<br />Essential services (public utility uses) means underground or overhead gas, electric, steam, or water
<br />distribution systems; collection, communication, supply, or disposal system, including poles, wires,
<br />mains, drains, sewers, pipes, conduits, cables, fire alarm boxes, police call boxes, traffic signals,
<br />hydrants, or other similar equipment and accessories, but not including buildings or transmission
<br />services.
<br />Exclusive liquor store means an establishment used exclusively for the sale of intoxicating liquor at
<br />retail either "on-sale" or "off-sale," or both.
<br />Exterior storage means the storage of goods, materials, equipment, manufactured products, and similar
<br />items not fully enclosed in a building.
<br />Exterior storage (includes open storage) means the storage of goods, materials, equipment,
<br />manufactured products, and similar items not fully enclosed by a building.
<br />Extra strength waste (sewer systems) means waste having a BOD and/or suspended solids greater
<br />than domestic waste as defined in the definition of the term "normal domestic strength wastewater" in
<br />this section.
<br />Extractive use means the use of land for surface or subsurface removal of sand, gravel, rock, industrial
<br />materials, other nonmetallic minerals, and peat not regulated under M.S.A. §§ 93.44 to 93.51, as they
<br />may be amended from time to time.
<br />False alarm means the activation of an alarm system signal or message which elicits notification to
<br />and/or response by the county sheriff's office and/or city fire department when there is no evidence of a
<br />crime, fire, medical emergency, or other activity which warrants a call for immediate police, firefighting,
<br />or emergency medical assistance.
<br />Family means an individual, or two or more persons each related by blood, marriage, adoption, or
<br />foster care arrangement living together as a single housekeeping unit, or a group of not more than four
<br />persons not so related, maintaining a common household, exclusive of servants.
<br />Family entertainment center means amusement facilities that may include indoor miniature golf, child
<br />play areas, arcade games, batting cages, birthday party and family celebration rooms, indoor
<br />soccer/field hockey, children's adventure play gardens, and laser tag. Also typically included in this
<br />definition are small food and beverage areas and small retail areas. All facilities are non-alcoholic and
<br />smoke free.
<br />Farm, rural, means the portion of a ten-acre or more parcel of land which is devoted to agriculture by
<br />the property owner or by a lessee of the property owner.
<br />Farm, suburban, means a noncommercial, food-producing use primarily intended for the use of the
<br />residents, and usually on less than ten contiguous acres. Suburban agricultural uses may include
<br />production of crops such as fruit trees, shrubs, plants, flowers, vegetables, and domestic pets.
<br />Farm school means a facility that supports a school program that emphasizes fostering a child's
<br />intellectual, social, physical, and emotional growth, using farm animals, agriculture, and nature as the
<br />learning environment and conducted as part of an operational farm.
<br />Farmer means a person permanently residing on a tract of land of not less than ten acres in the city
<br />and who farms the land for a livelihood.
<br />Fence means a partition, structure, wall, or gate erected as a dividing marker, visual or physical barrier,
<br />or enclosure, not to include any roof or covering.
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