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� . . _.._... � <br /> municipal decisions to grant variances. Id. at 327-28 & n.2. Compare Minn. Stat. <br /> § 462.357, subd. 6, with Minn. Stat. § 394.27, subd. 7 (2008).8 <br /> In Stadsvold, we interpreted Minn. Stat. § 394.27, subd. 7, which sets forth the <br /> statutory standard for county variances. This staiute contains both the "practical <br /> difficulties" standard and a "particular hardship" standard. Specifically, section 394.27 <br /> authorizes a county to grant variances from "the terms of any official control" but only <br /> when the properry owner would face "practical difficulties or particular hardship" in <br /> meeting "the strict letter of any official control." Minn. Stat. § 394.27, subd. 7.9 We <br /> distinguished the "less rigorous `practical difficulties' " standard that applies to area <br /> variance applications from the more rigorous "particular hardship" standard that applies <br /> to use variance applications. Stadsvold, 754 N.W.2d at 330-31,10 <br /> $ While Minn. Stat. § 462357, subd. 6, and Minn. Stat. § 394.27, subd. 7, both set <br /> forth standards for granting variances, section 462.357, subdivision 6, applies to <br /> municipalities and section 394.27, subdivision 7, applies to counties. <br /> 9 The same dichotomy of language at issue in Stadsvold existed in the predecessor <br /> to the municipal zoning statute, section 462.357. Until 1965, section 462.22 (enacted in <br /> 1929, repealed in 1965) granted municipalities the power to vary or modify the <br /> appiication of a zoning regulation where there were "practical difficulties or unnecessary <br /> hardship" in complying with the strict letter of the regulation. Minn. Stat. § 462.22 <br /> , (1961). In 1965, the legislature replaced Minn. Stat. § 462.22 with Minn. Stat. § 462.357. <br /> '� Act of May 22, 1965, c. 670, § 7, 1965 Minn. Laws 995, 1000-03. The new statute <br /> replaced the "practical difficulties or unnecessary hardship" standard with the current <br /> single "undue hardship" standard. Id. "Undue hardship" was undefined in the statute <br /> until 1982, when the legislature, bonowing the defuution of"hardship" from the county <br /> variance statute, Minn. Stat. § 394.27, added the current definition of"undue hardship" to <br /> the statute. Act of Mar. 22, 1982, ch. 507, § 22, 1982 Minn. Laws 592, 593. <br /> lo As we discussed in Stadsvold, "[t]here are two types of variances: use variances <br /> and area variances. `A use variance permits a use or development of land other than that <br /> (Footnote continued on next page.) <br /> 15 <br />