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Home occupation means any gainful occupation carried out by the occupant of a residential dwelling <br />unit that occurs within the principal or accessory building on the property and does not change the <br />primary residential use of the property. Level 1 and level 2 home occupations shall be as defined in <br />[section] 78-1376. <br />Hotel means a building containing eight or more guest rooms in which lodging is provided with or <br />without meals for compensation and which is open to transient or permanent guests or both, and where no <br />provision is made for cooking in any guest room, and in which ingress and egress to and from all rooms is <br />made through an 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 <br />the replacement of a building or structure completely within the limits (location, height, width, and depth) <br />of the previous building or structure. <br />Junkyard means an area where used, waste, discarded or salvaged materials are bought, sold, <br />exchanged, stored, baled, cleaned, packed, disassembled or handled, including but not limited to scrap <br />iron and other metals, paper, rags, rubber products, bottles and lumber. Storage of such material in <br />conjunction with a permitted manufacturing process when within an enclosed area or building shall not be <br />included. <br />Library, public, means a library operated by Hennepin County; or a nonprofit library intended for <br />use by the general public. <br />Local street means a residential street maintained by the city and which is not defined as a state <br />highway, county highway, collector, arterial, or a municipal state aid street. <br />Lot area means the area of a lot in a horizontal plane bounded by the lot lines, but not including any <br />area occupied by the waters of a duly recorded lake or river or wetland or area which has been dedicated <br />as public right-of-way. <br />Lot, back, means a lot typically separated from a public or private road by another lot and which <br />gains access to the public or private road via a narrow corridor. Such a separated lot is considered to be a <br />back lot when the corridor is platted as an outlot. A separated lot is considered to be a flag lot when the <br />corridor is platted as part of the lot. When the corridor is merely an easement over another lot, the <br />separated lot is considered to be an easement back lot. <br />Lot, corner, means a lot situated at the junction of, and abutting on, two or more intersecting streets, <br />or a lot at the point of deflection in alignment of a continuous street, the interior angle of which does not <br />exceed 135 degrees. <br />Lot coverage means the total square footage of all building footprints and structures on a parcel. <br />Lot depth means the mean horizontal distance between the front lot line and the rear lot line of a lot. <br />Lot, front, means a lot abutting a public or private road, across which an outlot has been platted for <br />access to a back lot. <br />Lot, interior, means a lot other than a corner lot. <br />Lot line means the property line bounding a lot; except that where any portion of a lot extends into <br />the public right-of-way or a proposed public right-of-way, the line of such public right-of-way shall be the <br />lot line. <br />Lot line, front, means that boundary of a lot which abuts an existing or dedicated public or private <br />street, and in the case of a corner lot it shall be the shortest dimension on a public or private street. If the <br />dimensions of a corner lot are equal, the front lot line shall be designated by the owner and filed in the <br />office of the building inspector. <br />88 <br />