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