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Use, Principal - The purpose or activity for which the land or building thereon is designated, arranged, or. intended, or fc~r which it is occupied, utilized or maintained, and shall include the performance of such activity'as defined by the performance standards of this Chapter. Usable Open Space - A required ground area or terrace area on a lot which is gaded, developed, landscaped and equipped and intended and maintained for either active or passive recreation or both, available and accessible to and useable by all persons occupying a dwelling unit or rooming unit on the lot and their, guests. Such areas shall be grassed and landscaped or covered only for a recreational purpose. Roofs, driveways,'par!dng areas and drainage or ponding areas shall not constitute useable open space. Variance - The waiving by Board action'of the literal provisions of the zoning chapter in instances where their strict enforcement would cause undue hardship because of circumstances unique to the individual property under consideration. Vegetation - The sum total of plant life in some area; or a plant community with distinguishable characteristics. Vehicle Repair Major- General repair, rebuilding or reconditioning engines, motor vehi.cles or trailers, collision service, including body, frame or fender straightening or repair, overall painting or paint job. Vehicle Repair Minor - Minor repairs, replacement of parts and motor services to passenger automobiles and trucks not exceeding 9,000 pounds gross weight, but not including any operation specified under "Vehicle Repair Major." Vehicle Wrecking-Yard -Any place where vehicle(s) not in running condition and/or not licensed, or parts thereof, are stored in the open or any land used for wrecking or storing of such motor vehicles or parts thereof, and including any commercial salvaging and scavenging of any other good, articles or merchandise. Waterbody - A body of water (lake, pond) in a depression of land or expanded part of a fiver, or an enclosed basin that holds water and is surrounded by land. Watercourse - A channel or depression through which water flows, such as rivers, streams, ditches or creeks and may flow year-round or intermittently. Watershed - The area drained by the natural and artificial drainage system, bounded peripherally by a bridge or stretch of high land dividing drainage area. Wetlands - An area where water stands near, at or above the soil surface during a signifiCant portion of most years, saturating the soil and supporting a predominantly aquatic form of vegetation and which may have the following characteristics: .. Vegetation belonging to the marsh (emergent aquatic), bog, fen, sedge meadow, shrubland, southern lowland forest (lowland hardwood) and northern lowland forest (conifer swamp) communities. (These communities correspond roughly to wetland types 1, 2, 3,. 4, 6, 7 and 8 described by the -128- 14