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<br /> <br /> <br /> Created: 2024-07-18 07:35:45 [EST] <br />(Supp. No. 21, Update 3) <br /> <br />Page 4 of 41 <br />Curb cut means the opening along a street curb line or pavement edge for the purpose of motor vehicle <br />ingress and egress from a roadway. Curb cut width shall include the width of the driveway approach and of the <br />curb returns, if any. <br />Dog boarding means indoor overnight boarding services for more than three dogs aged greater than six <br />months. <br />Dog daycare means indoor daycare services for more than three dogs aged greater than six months. <br />Dog grooming means a premises where pet grooming services such as bathing, teeth cleaning, haircuts, and <br />nail polishing and trimming are provided. <br />Driveway means a paved or otherwise delineated area on private property for the operation of automobiles <br />and other vehicles. <br />Dry buildable means that portion of the lot not encumbered by the waters of a duly recorded lake or river, <br />wetlands, bluffs, or slopes steeper than 30 percent. <br />Dwelling means a building or part of a building containing independent living, sleeping, housekeeping <br />accommodations, and sanitary facilities for occupancy by one family, intended to be occupied exclusively for <br />residence purposes, but not including rooms in motels, hotels, nursing homes, boardinghouses, nor trailers, tents, <br />cabins or trailer coaches. A dwelling shall not be interpreted to include lodging rooms. <br />Dwelling, attached, means a dwelling which is joined to another dwelling at one or more sides by a party or <br />fire wall or walls. <br />Dwelling, detached, means a dwelling which is entirely surrounded by open space on the same lot. <br />Engineered grade means the elevation of the ground, or any paving or sidewalk built upon it, which has been <br />established on the basis of an engineered grading and drainage plan for the property that has been reviewed and <br />approved by the city for the property. <br />Essential services means the erection, construction, alteration, or maintenance of underground or overhead <br />gas, electrical, steam, or water transmission or distribution systems, collection, communication, supply or disposal <br />systems by public utilities, municipal or other governmental agencies, but not including buildings. <br />Existing ground level means the elevation of the grade at the base of an existing structure, measured at <br />points abutting the foundation wall, or the natural grade of a vacant lot or the engineered grade established by an <br />approved grading plan at the time of final platting or interim use permit. <br />Family means any number of individuals generally, but not necessarily, related by blood or marriage, living <br />together at one location maintaining a common household as a single, nonprofit housekeeping unit, as <br />distinguished from a group occupying a boardinghouse or rooming house, 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, ducks, geese, <br />turkeys, chickens or guinea hens. <br />Garage, private, means a detached accessory building or portion of the principal building, including a carport, <br />which is used for storing passenger vehicles, and trailers. <br />Hardcover means a hard surface that prevents or retards entry of water into the soil and causes water to run <br />off the surface in greater quantities and at an increased rate of flow than prior to development. Hardcover shall <br />include but not be limited to the following: all building footprints, driveways, sidewalks, stepping stones, retaining <br />walls, patios, courts (sport, tennis, etc.), decks, pools, areas used for the extended outdoor storage of vehicles or <br />equipment, and all other similar features or surfaces as determined by the city engineer or city planner. <br />194