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<br />Driveway means a paved or otherwise delineated area on private property for the operation <br />of automobiles and other vehicles. <br />Dry buildable means that portion of the lot not encumbered by the waters of a duly recorded <br />lake or river, wetlands, bluffs, or slopes steeper than 30 percent. <br />Dwelling means a building or part of a building containing independent living, sleeping, <br />housekeeping accommodations, and sanitary facilities for occupancy by one family, intended to <br />be occupied exclusively for residence purposes, but not including rooms in motels, hotels, <br />nursing homes, boardinghouses, nor trailers, tents, cabins or trailer coaches. A dwelling shall not <br />be interpreted to include lodging rooms. <br />Dwelling, attached, means a dwelling which is joined to another dwelling at one or more <br />sides by a party wall or walls. <br />Dwelling, detached, means a dwelling which is entirely surrounded by open space on the <br />same lot. <br />Engineered grade means the elevation of the ground, or any paving or sidewalk built upon <br />it, which has been established on the basis of an engineered grading and drainage plan for the <br />property that has been reviewed and approved by the city for the property. <br />Essential services means the erection, construction, alteration, or maintenance of <br />underground or overhead gas, electrical, steam, or water transmission or distribution systems, <br />collection, communication, supply or disposal systems by public utilities, municipal or other <br />governmental agencies, but not including buildings. <br />Existing ground level means the elevation of the grade at the base of an existing structure, <br />measured at points abutting the foundation wall, or the natural grade of a vacant lot or the <br />engineered grade established by an approved grading plan at the time of final platting or Interim <br />Use Permit. For conditional use permit. <br />Family means any number of individuals generally, but not necessarily, related by blood or <br />marriage, living together at one location maintaining a common household as a single, nonprofit <br />housekeeping unit, as distinguished from a group occupying a boardinghouse or rooming house, <br />hotel or motel. <br />Family dwelling, multiple, means any structure made up of two or more attached dwellings. <br />Farm animals means cattle, horses, mules, sheep, goats, llamas, alpacas, swine, ponies, <br />ducks, geese, turkeys, chickens or guinea hens. <br />Garage, private, means a detached accessory building or portion of the principal building, <br />including a carport, which is used for storing passenger vehicles, and trailers. <br />Guest apartment means a room or a set of rooms within a principal residence structure for <br />the sole use of the occupants of the principal residence, including their domestic employees or <br />their nonpaying guests, with at least one access door to the apartment from within the principal <br />structure, such door being the primary access to the apartment. <br />Guest house means adwellinga dwelling unit in a detached accessory building constructed <br />on an existing undivided lot for the sole use of the occupants, including their domestic <br />employees or their nonpaying guests, of the primary dwelling. For the purposes of this chapter, a <br />guest house is considered a dwelling unit if it meets all of the requirements of a dwelling unit <br />Formatted: Font: (Default) Times New Roman, 12 pt, <br />Italic <br />78