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(3) The grade of the slope from the toe of the bluff to a point 25 feet or more above the ordinary high- <br /> water level averages 30 percent or greater;and <br /> (4) The slope must drain toward the water body. <br /> Bluff impact zone means a bluff and land located within 20 feet from t e top of a bluff. <br /> Bluff, toe of the, means the lower point of the lowest 50-foot segment ith an average slope exceeding 18 <br /> percent. If the lowest such point is lakeward of the OHWL,the OHWL will be refined as the toe. <br /> Bluff, top of the, means that point on the cross section of a bluff below which the slope becomes more than <br /> 18 percent and above which the average slope for a distance of 50 feet or mere is 18 percent or less. <br /> Commercial use means the principal use of the land and/or buildings fir the sale, lease, rental or trade of <br /> products,goods and services. <br /> Deck means a horizontal, unenclosed platform with or without attache. railings,seats,trellises or other <br /> features,attached or functionally related to a principal use or site. <br /> Duplex, triplex and quad mean a dwelling structure on a single lot, havi g two,three and four units, <br /> respectively, being attached by common walls and each unit equipped with s-parate sleeping, cooking,eating, <br /> living and sanitation facilities. <br /> Dwelling site means a designated location where a dwelling unit is inte ded to be constructed. <br /> Dwelling site, transient, means a designated location for temporary or ransient residential use by one or <br /> more persons using temporary or movable shelter, including camping and re reational vehicle sites. <br /> Dwelling unit means a building or a portion of a building designed or in ended to be occupied exclusively for <br /> residential purposes, including provisions for sleeping, eating,cooking and sanitation for not more than one family, <br /> but not including rooms in motels, hotels, nursing homes, boardinghouses, n.r trailers,tents, cabins, recreational <br /> vehicles, nor lodging rooms. <br /> Extractive use means the use of land for surface or subsurface removal of sand,gravel, rock, industrial <br /> minerals,other nonmetallic minerals, and peat not regulated under Minn.St:ts. §§93.44 through 93.51. <br /> Forest land conversion means the clear cutting of forested lands to pre mare for a new land use other than <br /> reestablishment of a subsequent forest stand. <br /> Industrial use means the use of land or buildings for the production, m.nufacture,warehousing,storage or <br /> transfer of goods, products, commodities or other wholesale items. <br /> Intensive vegetation clearing means the complete removal of trees or shrubs in a contiguous patch,strip, <br /> row or block. <br /> Ordinary high-water level(OHWL)means the boundary of public water. and wetlands, and shall be an <br /> elevation delineating the highest water level which has been maintained for ,: sufficient period of time to leave <br /> evidence upon the landscape,commonly that point where the natural veget.tion changes from predominantly <br /> aquatic to predominantly terrestrial. For watercourses,the ordinary high-wa ier level is the elevation of the top of <br /> the bank of the channel. For reservoirs and flowages,the ordinary high-wate level is the operating elevation of <br /> the normal summer pool.The designated OHWL has been determined by th- state department of natural <br /> resources for certain water bodies as shown in section 6.12.5970. <br /> Planned unit development(PUD)means a type of development characterized by a unified site design for a number <br /> of residential dwelling units or nonresidential sites on a parcel,whether for s:le, rent or lease, often involving <br /> clustering of units or sites to provide areas of common open space or a mixt re of structure types and land uses. <br /> Two types of PUD are provided for in this chapter: <br /> (1) Planned residential development(PRD), in which the nature of allowed uses is nontransient residential, <br /> including attached and detached single-family or multiple-family swellings,subject to the limitations <br /> provided for in each zoning district. <br /> Page 11 of 19 <br />