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<br /> <br /> <br /> Created: 2025-07-31 14:51:25 [EST] <br /> <br />Page 5 of 19 <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. <br />239