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L It . § 10.56 7. "Dwelling Site, Transient" - A designated location for temporar>- or transient residential use by one or more persons using temporary or movable shelter, including camping and recreational vehicle sites. 8. "Dwelling Site" - A designated location where a dwelling unit is intended to be constructed. 9. "Dwelling Unit" - A building or a portion of a building designed or intended to be occupied e.xclusively for residential purposes, including provisions for sleepina, eating, cooking and sanitation for not more than one family, but not including rooms in motels, hotels, nursing homes, boarding houses, nor trailers, tents, cabins, recreational vehicles, nor lodeing rooms. 10. "Extractive Use" - The use of land for surface or subsurface removal of sa.nd, gravel, rock, industrial minerals, other nonmetallic minerals, and peat not regulated under Mirmesota Statutes Sections 93.44 - 93,51. 11. "Forest Land Conversion" - The clear cutting of forested lands to prepare for a new land use other than re- establishment of a subsequent forest stand. 12. "Industrial Use” - The use of land or buildings for the production, manufacture, warehousing, storage, or transfer of goods, products, commodities, or other w holesale items. 13. "Intensive Vegetation Clearing" - The complete removal of trees or shrubs in a contiguous paten, stripTrowToTEIoHr'"" ~ ‘ ——— 14. 'Ordinary High Water Level (OHWL)" - 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, commoixly 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 normaJ summer pool. The designated OHWL has been determined by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for certain water bodies as shown in Subdivision 7 of this section. 15. 'Plarmed Unit Development (PUD)" - A type of development characterized by a unified site design for a number of residential dwelling units or non-residentiaJ sites on a parcel, whether for sale, rent, or lease, often involving clustering of units or sites to provide areas of cortunon open space or a mi.xture of structure types and land uses. Two types of PUD are provided for in the zoning code; ORONO CC 376-3 (2-24-92) V