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∙ Higher education, campus. The facilities for technical colleges, junior colleges, colleges and universities approved by the Minnesota Higher Education Coordinating Board for the Minnesota Department of Education. These facilities can include, but are not limited to, classrooms; laboratories; seminaries; dining and residence halls; athletic, wellness, and spiritual facilities; administrative offices; performance art centers; parking and transit structures; and child care facilities. (added 9/25/2017) ∙ Home occupation. The accessory or conditional accessory use of a residential structure for any gainful occupation or profession. ∙ Hospital. An institution licensed by the state department of health, providing primary health services and medical or surgical care, to sick or injured persons, primarily inpatients. May include related facilities such as laboratories, outpatient facilities, or training facilities. (added 7/14/10) ∙ Hotel/motel. Any building, or group of buildings, having five (5) or more guest rooms intended or designed to be rented or hired out to be occupied, or which are occupied for sleeping purposes by transient guests. (revised 7/14/10) ∙ House of worship. A place of worship or religious assembly and its accessory facilities used by the congregation such as the following: rectory, meeting hall, offices for administration of the institution, licensed child or adult daycare, playground, or cemetery. A house of worship does not include buildings or uses used exclusively for residential, schools, recreational, commercial, or other uses not normally associated with worship. (revised 7/14/10) ∙ Household. The person or persons occupying a single dwelling unit. A household may consist of a single family, one (1) person living alone, two (2) or more families living together or any group of related or un-related persons who share living arrangements. ∙ Industry. Uses such as the manufacturing, compounding, processing, packaging, treatment, assembling or warehousing of products and materials. ∙ Junkyard. An open area where waste, used or second-hand materials are bought, sold, exchanged, stored, baled, packed, disassembled or handled, including but not limited to, scrap iron and other metals, paper, rags, rubber, tires and bottles. A junkyard includes a vehicle wrecking yard but does not include uses established entirely within enclosed buildings. ∙ Landscape lot area. That portion of a lot required to remain as open space, free of buildings, parking and drives. Landscape lot areas may consist of: ∙ Naturally vegetated areas, ∙ Wetlands or ponding areas, ∙ Planting beds, ground cover and mulch areas (vegetative, rock, bark chip, etc.), ∙ Decorative walkways and areas not to exceed fifteen percent (15%) of the required landscape lot area, and
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