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2.732 Lot width. "Lot width" means the shortest distance between lot lines measured at the midpoint of the building line. 2.733 Nonconformi ty . "Nonconformi ty" means any legal use, structure or parcel of lahd already ih existence, recorded, or authorized before the adoption of official controls or amendments thereto that would not have been permitted to become established under the terms of the official controls as now written, if the official controls had been in effect prior to the date it was established, recorded or authorized. 2.734 Ordinary high water level. "Ordinary high water level" means the boundary of public waters and wetlands, and shall be an elevation delineating the highest water level which has been maintained for a sufficient period of time to leave evidence upon the landscape, commonly that point where the natural vegetation changes from predominantly aquatic to predominantly terrestrial. For watercourses, the ordinary high water level is the elevation of the top of the bank of the channel. For reservoirs and flowages, the ordinary high water level is the operating elevation of the normal summer pool. 2.735 Planned unit development. "Planned unit development" means a type of development characterized by a unified site design for a number of dwelling units or dwelling sites on a parcel, whether for sale, rent, or lease, and also usually involving clustering of these units or sites to provide areas of COll~on open space, density increases, and a mix of structure types and land uses. These developments may be organized and operated as condominiums, time-share condominiums, cooperatives, full fee ownership, commercial enterprises, or any combination of these, or cluster subdivisions of dwelling units, residential condominiums, townhouses, apartment buildings, campgrounds, recreational vehicle parks, resorts, hotels, motels, and conversions of structures and land uses to these uses. 2.736 Public waters. "Public waters" means any waters as defined in Minnesota statutes, section 105.37, sUbdivisions 14 and 15. 2.737 Residential planned unit development. "Residential planned unit develõpmEHitl! means a use where the nature of residency is nontransient and the major or primary focus of the development is not service-oriented. For example, residential apartments, manufactured home parks, time-share condominiums, townhouses, cooperatives, and full fee ownership residences would be considered as residential planned unit developments. To qualify as a residential planned unit development, a development must contain at least five dwelling units or sites. 2.738 Semipublic use. "Semipublic llse" means the use of land by a private, nonprofit organization to provide a pUblic service that is ordinarily open to some persons outside the regular constituency of the organization. 5