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INTENSIVE VEGETATION CLEARING: The complete removal of trees or shrubs in a 200 <br />contiguous patch, strip, row, or block. 201 <br />NONCONFORMITY: Any legal use, structure or parcel of land already in existence, recorded, or 202 <br />authorized before the adoption of official controls or amendments to those controls that would not 203 <br />have been permitted to become established under the terms of the official controls as now written. 204 <br />PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT: A type of development characterized by a unified site 205 <br />design for a number of dwelling units or dwelling sites on a parcel, whether for sale, rent, or 206 <br />lease, and also usually involving clustering of these units or sites to provide areas of common 207 <br />open space, density increases, and a mix of structure types and land uses. These developments 208 <br />may be organized and operated as condominiums, time-share condominiums, cooperatives, full 209 <br />fee ownership, commercial enterprises, or any combination of these, or cluster subdivisions of 210 <br />dwelling units, residential condominiums, townhouses, apartment buildings, dwelling grounds, 211 <br />resorts, hotels, motels, and conversions of structures and land uses to these uses. 212 <br />PUBLIC WATERS: Any water as defined in Minnesota Statutes, Section 103G.005, Subd. 15, 213 <br />15a. 214 <br />RESIDENTIAL PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT: A use where the nature of residency is 215 <br />nontransient and the major or primary focus of the development is not service-oriented. For 216 <br />example, residential apartments, manufactured home parks, time-share condominiums, 217 <br />townhouses, cooperatives, and full fee ownership residences would be considered as residential 218 <br />planned unit developments. To qualify as a residential planned unit development, a development 219 <br />must contain at least five dwelling units or sites. 220 <br />SEMIPUBLIC USE: The use of land by a private, nonprofit organization to provide a public 221 <br />service that is ordinarily open to some persons outside the regular constituency of the 222 <br />organization. 223 <br />SEWER SYSTEM: Pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, and force main, and all other 224 <br />construction, devices, appliances, or appurtenances used for conducting sewage or industrial 225 <br />waste or other wastes to a point of ultimate disposal. 226 <br />RCA Attachment A <br />Page 8 of 32