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2.720 Deck. "Deck" means a horizontal, unenclosed platform with or without attached railings, seats, trellises, or other features, attached or functionally rèlated to a principal use or site and at any point extending more than three feet above ground. 2.721 Duplex, triplex, and quad. "Duplex," triplex,ff and "quad" means a dwelling structure on a single lot, having two, three, and fonr llnit.s. resnec1:.ivelv. beina at1:.ached bv common walls and each ~~it ;~ipped wlth- ;;~p~r~te-- ãi~éping, cOOkiñg, eating, living, and sanitation facilities. 2.722 Dwelling site. "Dwelling site" means a designated location fo:e residential UI::)t:;: by one or more persons using temporary or movable shelter, including camping and recreational vehicle sites. 2.723 Dwelling unit. "Dwelling unit" means any structure or portion of a structure, or other shelter designed as short- or long-term living quarters for one or more persons, including rental or timeshare accommodations such as motel, hotel, and resort rooms and cabins. 2.724 Extractive use. "Extractive use" means the use of land for surface or subsurface removal of sand, gravel, rock, industrial minerals, other nonmetallic minerals, and peat not regulated under Minnesota statutes, sections 93.44 to 93.51. 2.725 Forest lanà conversion. !!Fûrest land cûnversionu means the clear cutting of forested lands to prepare for a new land use other than reestablishment of a subsequent forest stand. 2.726 Guest cottage. "Guest cottage" means a structure used as a dwelling unit that may contain sleeping spaces and kitchen and bathroom facilities in addition to those provided in the primary dwelling unit on a lot. 2.727 Hardship. "Hardshipll means the same as that term ls defined in Minnesota statutes, Chapter 394 (for counties) or Chapter 462 (for municipalities). 2.728 Height of building. "Height of building" means the vertical distance between the highest adjoining groünd level at the building or ten feet above the lowest ground level, whichever is lower, and the highest point of a flat roof or average height of the highest gable of a pitched or hipped roof. 2.729 Industrial use. "Industrial use" means the use of land or buildings for the production, manufacture, warehousing, storage, or transfer of goods, products, commodities, or other wholesale items. 2.730 Intensive vegetation clearing. "Intensive vegetation clearing" means the complete removal' of trees or shrubs in a contiguous patch, strip, row, or block. 2.731 Lot. "Lot" means a parcel of land designated by plat, metes anà bounds, registered land survey, auditors plot, or other accepted means and separated from other parcels or portions by said description for the purpose of sale, lease, or separation. J I