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ti <br />N <br />M <br />LAND USE <br />not including rooms in motels, hotels, nursing <br />homes, boardinghouses, nor trailers, tents, cabins <br />or trailer coaches. A dwelling shall not be <br />interpreted to include lodging rooms. <br />Dwelling, attached, means a dwelling which is <br />joined to another dwelling at one or more sides <br />by a party or fire wall or walls. <br />Dwelling, detached, means a dwelling which is <br />entirely surrounded by open space on the same <br />lot. <br />Engineered grade means the elevation of the <br />ground, or any paving or sidewalk built upon it, <br />which has been established on the basis of an <br />engineered grading and drainage plan for the <br />property that has been reviewed and approved <br />by the city for the property. <br />Essential services means the erection, construc- <br />tion, alteration, or maintenance of underground <br />or overhead gas, electrical, steam, or water <br />transmission or distribution systems, collection, <br />communication, supply or disposal systems by <br />public utilities, municipal or other governmental <br />agencies, but not including buildings. <br />Existing ground level means the elevation of <br />the grade at the base of an existing structure, <br />measured at points abutting the foundation wall, <br />or the natural grade of a vacant lot or the <br />engineered grade established by an approved <br />grading plan at the time of final platting or <br />interim use permit. <br />Family means any number of individuals gener- <br />ally, but not necessarily, related by blood or <br />marriage, living together at one location maintain- <br />ing a common household as a single, nonprofit <br />housekeeping unit, as distinguished from a group <br />occupying a boardinghouse or rooming house, <br />hotel or motel. <br />Family dwelling, multiple, means any structure <br />made up of two or more attached dwellings. <br />Farm animals means cattle, horses, mules, <br />sheep, goats, llamas, alpacas, swine, ponies, ducks, <br />geese, turkeys, chickens or guinea hens. <br />Garage condo means a building or part of a <br />building consisting of individual units for indoor <br />storage of motor vehicles, boats, trailers, or <br />§ 6.12.010 <br />recreational vehicles and such items as are <br />customarily used for the care or upkeep of such <br />motor vehicles, boats, trailers, or recreational <br />vehicles. Individual units are owned or leased <br />and may be capable of customization, alteration, <br />or expansion by the owners or tenants of the <br />units. The term "garage condo" may include <br />common spaces or office areas. <br />Garage, private, means a detached accessory <br />building or portion of the principal building, <br />including a carport, which is used for storing <br />passenger vehicles, and trailers. <br />Hardcover means a hard surface that prevents <br />or retards entry of water into the soil and causes <br />water to run off the surface in greater quantities <br />and at an increased rate of flow than prior to <br />development. The term "hardcover" includes, <br />but is not limited to, the following: all building <br />footprints, driveways, sidewalks, stepping stones, <br />retaining walls, patios, courts (sport, tennis, <br />etc.), decks, pools, areas used for the extended <br />outdoor storage of vehicles or equipment, and all <br />other similar features or surfaces as determined <br />by the city engineer or city planner. <br />Home occupation means any gainful occupa- <br />tion carried out by the occupant of a residential <br />dwelling unit that occurs within the principal or <br />accessory building on the property and does not <br />change the primary residential use of the property. <br />Level 1 and level 2 home occupations shall be as <br />defined in section 6.12.6810. <br />Hotel means a building containing eight or <br />more guest rooms in which lodging is provided <br />with or without meals for compensation and <br />which is open to transient or permanent guests <br />or both, and where no provision is made for <br />cooking in any guest room, and in which ingress <br />and egress to and from all rooms is made through <br />an inside lobby or office supervised by a person <br />in charge. <br />In -kind, when used in the context of replace- <br />ment of a nonconforming building or structure, <br />means the replacement of a building or structure <br />completely within the limits (location, height, <br />width, and depth) of the previous building or <br />structure. <br />CD6:23 <br />