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guests, of the primary dwelling. For the purposes of this chapter, a guest house is considered a dwelling <br />unit if it meets all of the requirements of a dwelling unit outlined in the Minnesota State Building Code, as <br />amended from time to time. These requirements include complete independent living facilities with <br />permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation. <br />Hardcover means a hard surface that prevents or retards entry of water into the soil and causes water <br />to run off the surface in greater quantities and at an increased rate of flow than prior to development. <br />Hardcover shall include but not be limited to the following: all building footprints, driveways, sidewalks, <br />stepping stones, retaining walls, patios, courts (sport, tennis, etc.), decks, pools, areas used for the extended <br />outdoor storage of vehicles or equipment, and all other similar features or surfaces as determined by the <br />city engineer or city planner. <br />Home occupation means any gainful occupation carried out by the occupant of a residential dwelling <br />unit that occurs within the principal or accessory building on the property and does not change the primary <br />residential use of the property. Level 1 and level 2 home occupations shall be as defined in [section] 78- <br />1376. <br />Hotel means a building containing eight or more guest rooms in which lodging is provided with or <br />without meals for compensation and which is open to transient or permanent guests or both, and where no <br />provision is made for cooking in any guest room, and in which ingress and egress to and from all rooms is <br />made through an inside lobby or office supervised by a person in charge. <br />In-kind, when used in the context of replacement of a non -conforming building or structure, means the <br />replacement of a building or structure completely within the limits (location, height, width, and depth) of <br />the previous building or structure. <br />Junkyard means an area where used, waste, discarded or salvaged materials are bought, sold, <br />exchanged, stored, baled, cleaned, packed, disassembled or handled, including but not limited to scrap iron <br />and other metals, paper, rags, rubber products, bottles and lumber. Storage of such material in conjunction <br />with a permitted manufacturing process when within an enclosed area or building shall not be included. <br />Library, public, means a library operated by Hennepin County; or a nonprofit library intended for use <br />by the general public. <br />Lot area means the area of a lot in a horizontal plane bounded by the lot lines, but not including any <br />area occupied by the waters of a duly recorded lake or river or wetland or area which has been dedicated as <br />public right-of-way. <br />Lot, back, means a lot typically separated from a public or private road by another lot and which gains <br />access to the public or private road via a narrow corridor. Such a separated lot is considered to be a back lot <br />when the corridor is platted as an outlot. A separated lot is considered to be a flag lot when the corridor is <br />platted as part of the lot. When the corridor is merely an easement over another lot, the separated lot is <br />considered to be an easement back lot. <br />Lot, corner, means a lot situated at the junction of, and abutting on, two or more intersecting streets, <br />or a lot at the point of deflection in alignment of a continuous street, the interior angle of which does not <br />exceed 135 degrees. <br />Lot coverage means the total square footage of all building footprints and structures on a parcel. <br />Lot depth means the mean horizontal distance between the front lot line and the rear lot line of a lot. <br />Lot, front, means a lot abutting a public or private road, across which an outlot has been platted for <br />access to a back lot. <br />Lot, interior, means a lot other than a corner lot. <br />Lot line means the property line bounding a lot; except that where any portion of a lot extends into the <br />public right-of-way or a proposed public right-of-way, the line of such public right-of-way shall be the lot <br />line. <br />