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t 5^:4'' ¥' fl j . ■■r',' - i is defined in Minnesota Statutes^ chapter 394. Subp. 7a. Height of building. "Height of building" means the vertical distance between the highest adjoining ground level at the building or ten feet above the lowest ground level» whichever is lowers and the highest point of a flat roof or average height of the highest gable of a pitched or hipped roof. Subp. 7b. Industrial use. "Industrial use" means the use of land or buildings for the production, manufacture, warehousing, storage, or transfer of goods, products, eonmodities, or other wholesale items. Subp. 7c. Intensive vegetation clearing. "Intensive vegetation clearing" means the complete removal of trees or shrubs in a contiguous patch, strip, row, or block. Subp. 8. Lot. "Lot" means a parcel of land designated by plat, metes and bounds, registered land survey, auditors plot, or other accepted means and separated from other parcels or portions by said description for the purpose of sale, lease, or separation. Subp. 9. Lot width. "Let width" means the shortest distance between lot lines measured at the midpoint of the building line. Subp. 10. Nonconformity. "Nonconformity" means the same as that term is defined or described in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 394. Subp. 11. Ordinary high water level. "Ordinary high water level" means the boundary of public waters and wetlands, and ahall be an elevation delineating the highest water level which has been maintained fof a sufficient period of time to leave evidence upon the landscape, commonly that point where the natural vegetation changes from predominantly aquatic to predominantly terrestrial. For watercourses, the .-.rdinary hign 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 normal summer pool. Subp. 12. Planned unit development. "Planned unit development" means a type of development characterized by a unified site design for a number of dwelling units or dwelling sites on s parcel, whether for sale, rent, or lease, and also usually involving clustering of these units or sites to provide areas of common open space, density increases, and a mix of structure types and land uses. These developments may be organised and operated as condominiums, time-share condominiums, cooperatives, full fee ownership, commercial enterprises, or any combination of these, or cluster subdivisions of dwelling units, residential condominiums, townhouses, apartment buildings, campgrounds, recreational vehicle parks, resorts, hotels, A-1.3 aatbLiSii