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∙ Utility trailer. Equipment used for recreational or utilitarian purposes that can be towed; such as special purpose trailers (i.e. boat trailers, ATV trailers) or other hauling trailers. (revised 02/07/08) ∙ Utility vehicle. A vehicle, with or without a motor, and/or adapted for temporary living, sleeping, business or storage purposes; having a frame, but no foundation other than wheels, blocks, studs, jacks, horses or skirting, which does not reach or meet building code requirements and has been or may be equipped with wheels or other devices for transporting purposes. This term shall include travel trailers, camping trailers, tent trailers, recreation vehicles, farm tractors, riding yard and garden tractors and trailers. A permanent foundation shall not change the character of the vehicle. ∙ Variance. A modification or variation of a specific permitted development standard required as a provision of this Code, to allow an alternative development standard not stated as acceptable in the official control, but only as applied to a particular property for the purpose of alleviating a hardship, practical difficulty or unique circumstance, except that modification in the allowable uses within a district shall not be allowed as a variance. (revised 05/05/10) ∙ Vehicle wash. A building, or portion thereof, which principal use is the washing of vehicles. ∙ Vehicle wrecking yard. Any open space where three (3) or more used motorized vehicles are stored which do not possess current state auto licenses. ∙ Warehousing. The storage and distribution of materials or equipment within an enclosed building, but not including personal storage facility. (revised 7/14/10) ∙ Watercraft. Motorized water-oriented vehicles including, but not limited to, power boats, cruisers, jet skies, fishing/hunting boats, pontoon boats, and any non-motorized craft with greater than a two person capacity. This definition excludes non-motorized one and two person crafts such as canoes, kayaks, and paddle boats. (revised 02/07/08) ∙ Waterfront uses. Boat docks and storage, water recreation equipment and other uses normally associated with to lakeshore property. ∙ Wetlands. Transitional low-lying areas between terrestrial and aquatic systems, either created or natural, covered with shallow and sometimes temporary or intermittent waters as defined in the United States Fish and Wildlife Service Circulator No. 39. This includes, but is not limited to swamps, marshes, bogs, sloughs, wet meadows, and shallow lakes and ponds with emergent vegetation. (revised 02/22/10) ∙ Wetland alteration. Alteration of a wetland includes changes to the wetland and/or wetland buffer strip in regards to size, depth or contour; dredging; tilling; damming; alteration of the watercourse; ditching; tiling; grading; draining; discharge of water; appropriation of water; changes in vegetation; or otherwise altering or destroying a wetland or wetland buffer or their functions. Alterations would not include Native Vegetation plantings or selective clearing or pruning of prohibited or restricted noxious