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<br /> <br /> <br /> Created: 2025-07-31 14:51:25 [EST] <br /> <br />Page 4 of 19 <br />Cornice means any horizontal decorative molding that crowns a building or wall. <br />County dock means a dock owned and operated by the county for the sole purpose of facilitating lake to <br />ground transportation of patrons in emergency or law enforcement situations. <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 />Day care means a location licensed by the state department of human services to provide the care of a child <br />in a residence outside the child's own home for gain or otherwise, on a regular basis, for any part of a 24 -hour day. <br />Dog boarding means indoor overnight boarding services for more than three dogs aged greater than six <br />months. <br />Dog day care means indoor day care 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 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 of <br />such motor vehicles, boats, trailers, or recreational vehicles. Individual units are owned or leased and may be <br />238