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Dwelling site. A designated location for residential use by one or more persons using temporary <br />or movable shelter, including camping and recreational vehicle sites. <br /> <br />Dwelling unit. Any structure or portion of a structure, or other shelter designed as short- or <br />long-term living quarters for one-or more persons, including rental or timeshare accommodations <br />such as motel, hotel, and resort rooms and cabins. <br /> <br />Extractive use. The use of land for surface or subsurface removal of sand, gravel, rock, <br />industrial minerals, other nonmetallic minerals, and peat not regulated under Minnesota Statutes, <br />sections 93.44 to 93.51. <br /> <br />Forest land conversion. The clear cutting of forested lands to prepare for a new land use other <br />than reestablishment of a subsequent forest stand. <br /> <br />Guest cottage. A structure used as a dwelling unit that may contain sleeping spaces and kitchen <br />and bathroom facilities in addition to those provided in the primary dwelling unit on a lot. <br /> <br />Hardship. The property in question cannot be put to a reasonable use if used under the <br />conditions allowed by the official controls; the plight of the landowner is due to circumstances <br />unique to the property not created by the landowner; and the variance, if granted, will not alter <br />the essential character of the locality. Economic considerations alone shall not constitute a <br />hardship if a reasonable use for the property exists under the terms of the official controls. <br /> <br />Height of building. A distance to be measured from the mean ground level to the highest point <br />of a fiat roof or average height of the highest gable of a pitched or hip roof. <br /> <br />Industrial use. The use of land or buildings for the production, manufacture, warehousing, <br />storage, or transfer of goods, products, commodities, or other wholesale items. <br /> <br />Intensive vegetation clearing. <br />strip, row, or block. <br /> <br />The complete removal of trees or shrubs in a contiguous patch, <br /> <br />Lot. A parcel of land designated by plat, metes and bounds, registered land survey, auditors plot, <br />or other accepted means and separated from other parcels or portions by said description for the <br />purpose of sale, lease, or separation. <br /> <br />Lot width. The shortest distance between lot lines measured at the midpoint of the building line. <br /> <br />Nonconformity. Any legal use, structure or parcel of land akeady in existence, recorded, or <br />authorized befbre the adoption of official controls or amendments thereto that would not have <br />been permitted to become established under the terms of the official controls as now written, if <br />the official controls had been in effect prior to the date it was established, recorded or authorized. <br /> <br />Ordinary high water level. The boundary of public waters and wetlands, and shall be an <br />elevation delineating the highest water level which has been maintained for a sufficient period of <br />time to leave evidence upon the landscape, commonly that point where the natural vegetation <br /> <br />Shoreland Management page 3 <br /> '04 Draft <br /> <br />81 <br /> <br /> <br />