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1305.04 Definitions
<br />• Nursing Home and Assisted Living Facility. A facility that provides daily assistance
<br />and long-term residence for disabled or elderly individuals. This includes a combination of
<br />housing, supportive services, personalized assistance and health care designed to respond
<br />to the individual needs of those who need help with activities of daily living, such as
<br />dressing, grooming, bathing, etc. (added 7/14/10)
<br />• Obstruction. Any dam, wall, wharf, embankment, levee, dike, pile, abutment,
<br />projection, excavation, channel, modification, culvert, building, wire, fence, stockpile,
<br />refuse, fill, structure, or matter in, along, across, or projecting into any channel,
<br />watercourse, or regulatory flood plain which may impede, retard, or change the direction of
<br />the flow of water, either in itself or by catching or collecting debris carried by such water.
<br />• Office(s). A room, suite of rooms, or a building containing rooms or suites of rooms in
<br />which persons conduct commercial activities, provide professional services, or carry on
<br />occupations and where goods are not stored, produced, sold at retail or repaired, including
<br />but not limited to the following: executive and administrative offices, business offices such
<br />as insurance, real estate, sales and similar offices, professional offices such as offices of
<br />engineers, surveyors, architects, accountants, attorneys and bookkeepers and similar
<br />offices, but excluding medical clinics. (revised 7/14/10)
<br />• Office showroom/warehouse. An office facility in which more than 50 percent of the
<br />total floor area is utilized for the display and sale of goods or merchandise on the premises,
<br />and/or for the storage and distribution of goods or merchandise from the premises. (added
<br />7/14/10)
<br />• Off-street parking areas. Structures or areas of ground used for the storage or parking
<br />of motor vehicles.
<br />• Open sales lot. Any land used or occupied for the purpose of buying and selling any
<br />goods, materials, or merchandise, and for the storing of same under the open sky prior to
<br />sale.
<br />Open space. (See landscape lot area.)
<br />• Ordinary high water level. The boundary of public waters and wetlands, and shall be
<br />an elevation delineating the highest water level which has been maintained for a sufficient
<br />period of time to leave evidence upon the landscape and as determined by the Minnesota
<br />Department of Natural Resources. The ordinary high water mark is commonly that point
<br />where the natural vegetation changes from predominantly aquatic to predominantly
<br />terrestrial. (revised 02/22/10)
<br />• Outdoor display and sales. The display of goods for sale or rent outside an enclosed
<br />building. (added 3/28/16)
<br />• Park facilities. The use of any lots or parcel of land and any structure or building
<br />thereon for public active and passive recreation purposes by the Arden Hills Parks and
<br />Recreation Department or the Ramsey County Parks and Recreation Department. (added
<br />11/25/13)
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