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ORDINANCE NO. 279, THIRD SERIES CITY OF ORONO HENNEPIN COUNTY, MINNESOTA AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CODE OF ORDINANCES PERTAINING ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS THE CITY COUNCIL OF ORONO ORDAINS: SECTION 1. Sec. 78-1 shall be amended by adding and deleting text to read as follows: SECTION. 78-1 Accessory Dwelling Unit (ADU) means a subordinate habitable dwelling unit, which has its own basic requirements of shelter, heating, cooking and sanitation, which is attached or detached from a single family dwelling. Dwelling, attached, means a dwelling which is joined to another dwelling at one or more sides by a party or fire wall or walls. Guest apartment means a room or a set of rooms within a principal residence structure for the sole use of the occupants of the principal residence, including their domestic employees or their nonpaying guests, with at least one access door to the apartment from within the principal structure, such door being the primary access to the apartment. Guest house means a dwelling unit in a detached accessory building constructed on an existing undivided lot for the sole use of the occupants, including their domestic employees or their nonpaying guests, of the primary dwelling. For the purposes of this chapter, a guest house is considered a dwelling unit if it meets all of the requirements of a dwelling unit outlined in the Minnesota State Building Code, as amended from time to time. These requirements include complete independent living facilities with permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and sanitation. SECTION 2. Sec. 78-227 shall be amended by adding and deleting text to read as follows: SECTION. 78-227 Permitted uses. (4) Nonrental guest apartments (no exterior ingress or egress). An apartment within the principal residence structure on a lot for the sole use of the occupants of the principal residence, including their domestic employees or nonpaying guests. The only means of ingress or egress to the apartment shall be from within the principal structure. Application for such a guest apartment shall address the concerns of parking, sewage treatment, entryway and interior access method. Such apartments shall not have utilities metered separately from the principal residence utilities and shall not have a separate street address. (54) One-family detached dwellings. (65) Publicly owned parks and playgrounds. Council Exhibit A