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<br /> <br /> <br /> Created: 2025-02-26 08:25:05 [EST] <br />(Supp. No. 21) <br /> <br />Page 5 of 29 <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 livestock, or animals kept for agricultural purposes (commercial or non-commercial). <br />Farm animals include, but are not limited to; cattle, horses, mules, sheep, goats, llamas, swine, ponies, honeybees, <br />geese, turkeys, guinea hens, and domestic poultry. <br />Garage condo means a building or part of a building consisting of individual units for indoor storage of motor <br />vehicles, boats, trailers, or recreational vehicles and such items as are customarily used for the care or upkeep o f <br />such motor vehicles, boats, trailers, or recreational vehicles. Individual units are owned or leased and may be <br />capable of customization, alteration, or expansion by the owners or tenants of the units. Garage condos may <br />include common spaces or office areas. <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 t he 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, r etaining <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 />Home occupation means any gainful occupation carried out by the occupant of a residential dwelling unit <br />that occurs within the principal or accessory building on the property and does not change the primary residential <br />use of the property. Level 1 and level 2 home occupations shall be as defined in [section] 78-1376. <br />Hotel means a building containing eight or more guest rooms in which lodging is provided with or without <br />meals for compensation and which is open to transient or permanent guests or both, and where no provision is <br />made for cooking in any guest room, and in which ingress and egress to and from all rooms is made through an <br />inside lobby or office supervised by a person in charge. <br />In-kind, when used in the context of replacement of a non -conforming building or structure, means the <br />replacement of a building or structure completely within the limits (location, height, width, and depth) of the <br />previous building or structure. <br />Junkyard means an area where used, waste, discarded or salvaged materials are bought, sold, exchan ged, <br />stored, baled, cleaned, packed, disassembled or handled, including but not limited to scrap iron and other metals, <br />paper, rags, rubber products, bottles and lumber. Storage of such material in conjunction with a permitted <br />manufacturing process when within an enclosed area or building shall not be included. <br />Library, public, means a library operated by Hennepin County; or a nonprofit library intended for use by the <br />general public. <br />Local street means a residential street maintained by the city and which is not defined as a state highway, <br />county highway, collector, arterial, or a municipal state aid street. <br />33