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<br />capable of customization, alteration, or expansion by the owners or tenants of the units. The term "garage condo"
<br />may 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 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. The term
<br />"hardcover" includes, but is not limited to, the following: all building footprints, driveways, sidewalks, stepping
<br />stones, retaining walls, patios, courts (sport, tennis, etc.), decks, pools, areas used for the extended outdoor
<br />storage of vehicles or equipment, and all other similar features or surfaces as determined by the city engineer or
<br />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 6.12.6810.
<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 nonconforming 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, exchanged,
<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 the county; or a nonprofit library intended for use by the general
<br />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 />Lot area means the area of a lot in a horizontal plane bounded by the l ot lines, but not including any area
<br />occupied by the waters of a duly recorded lake or river or wetland or area which has been dedicated as public
<br />right-of-way.
<br />Lot, back, means a lot typically separated from a public or private road by another lot and wh ich gains access
<br />to the public or private road via a narrow corridor. Such a separated lot is considered to be a back lot when the
<br />corridor is platted as an outlot. A separated lot is considered to be a flag lot when the corridor is platted as part of
<br />the lot. When the corridor is merely an easement over another lot, the separated lot is considered to be an
<br />easement back lot.
<br />Lot, corner, means a lot situated at the junction of, and abutting on, two or more intersecting streets, or a lot
<br />at the point of deflection in alignment of a continuous street, the interior angle of which does not exceed 135
<br />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 access to
<br />a back lot.
<br />Lot, interior, means a lot other than a corner lot.
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