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<br />2.727 Hardship. "Hardship" means the same as that term is defined in Minnesota Statutes,
<br />Chapter 394 (for counties) or Chapter 462 (for municipalities).
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<br />2.728 Height of building. "Height of building" means the vertical distance between the highest
<br />adjoining ground level at the building or ten feet above the lowest ground level, whichever is
<br />lower, and the highest point ofa flat roof or average height of the highest gable of a pitched or
<br />hipped roof.
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<br />2.729 Industrial use. "Industrial use" means the use of land or buildings for the production,
<br />manufacture, warehousing, storage, or transfer of goods, products, commodities, or other
<br />wholesale items.
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<br />2.730 Intensive vegetation clearing. "Intensive vegetation clearing" means the complete removal
<br />of trees or shrubs in a contiguous patch, strip, row, or block.
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<br />2.731 Lot. "Lot" means a parcel of land designated by plat, metes and bounds, registered land
<br />survey, auditors plot, or other accepted means and separated from other parcels or portions by said
<br />description for the purpose of sale, lease, or separation.
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<br />2.732 Lot width. "Lot width" means the shortest distance between lot lines measured at the
<br />midpoint ofthe building line.
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<br />2.733 Nonconformity. "Nonconformity" means any legal use, structure or parcel of land already
<br />in existence, recorded, or authorized before the adoption of official controls or amendments
<br />thereto that would not have been permitted to become established under the terms of the official
<br />controls as now written, if the official controls had been in effect prior to the date it was
<br />established, recorded or authorized.
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<br />2.734 Ordinary high water level. "Ordinary high water level" means the boundary of public waters
<br />and wetlands, and shall be an elevation delineating the highest water level which has been
<br />maintained for a sufficient period of time to leave evidence upon the landscape, commonly that
<br />point where the natural vegetation changes from predominantly aquatic to predominantly
<br />terrestrial. For watercourses, the ordinary high water level is the elevation of the top of the bank
<br />of the channel. For reservoirs and flowages, the ordinary high water level is the operating
<br />elevation ofthe normal summer pool.
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<br />2.735 Planned unit development. "Planned unit development" means a type of development
<br />characterized by a unified site design for a number of dwelling units or dwelling sites on a parcel,
<br />whether for sale, rent, or lease, and also usually involving clustering of these units or sites to
<br />provide areas of common open space, density increases, and a mix of structure types and land uses.
<br />These developments may be organized and operated as condominiums, time-share condominiums,
<br />cooperatives, full fee ownership, commercial enterprises, or any combination ofthese, or cluster
<br />subdivisions of dwelling units, residential condominiums, townhouses, apartment buildings,
<br />campgrounds, recreational vehicle parks, resorts, hotels, motels, and conversions of structures and
<br />land uses to these uses.
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<br />2.736 Public waters. "Public waters" means any waters as defined in Minnesota Statutes, section
<br />105.37, subdivisions 14 and 15.
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<br />2.737 Residential planned unit development. "Residential planned unit development" means a use
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