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Forest land conve, rsion. The clear cutting of forested lands to prepare for a new <br />land use other than reestablishment of a subsequent forest stand. <br /> <br />Guest cottage. A structure used as a dwelling unit that may contain sleeping <br />spaces and kitchen and bathroom facilities in addition to those provided in the <br />primary dwelling unit on a lot. <br /> <br />Hardship. The property in question cannot be put to a reasonable use if used <br />under the conditions allowed by the official controls; the plight of the landowner <br />is due to circumstances unique to the property not created by the landowner; and <br />the variance, if granted, will not alter the essential character of the locality. <br />Economic considerations alone shall not constitute a hardship if a reasonable use <br />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 <br />highest point of a flat roof or average height of the highest gable of a pitched or <br />hip roof. <br /> <br />Industrial use. The use of land or buildings for the production, manufacture, <br />warehousing, storage, or transfer of goods, products, commodities, or other <br />wholesale items. <br /> <br />Intensive vegetation clearing. The complete removal of trees or shrubs in a <br />contiguous patch, strip, row, or block. <br /> <br />Lot. A parcel of land designated by plat, metes and bounds, registered land <br />survey, auditors plot, or other accepted means and separated from other parcels or <br />portions by said description for the purpose of sale, lease, or separation. <br /> <br />Lot width. The shortest distance between lot lines measured at the midpoint of <br />the building line. <br /> <br />Nonconformity. Any legal use, structure or parcel of land already in existence, <br />recorded, or authorized before the adoption of official controls or amendments <br />thereto that would not have been permitted to become established under the terms <br />of the official controls as now written, if the official controls had been in effect <br />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 <br />be an elevation delineating the highest water level which has been maintained for <br />a sufficient period of time to leave evidence upon the landscape, commonly that <br />point where the natural vegetation changes from predominantly aquatic to <br />predominantly terrestrial. For watercourses, the ordinary high water level is the <br />elevation of the top of the bank of the channel. For reservoirs and flowages, the <br />ordinary high water level is the operating elevation of the normal summer pool. <br /> <br />Shoreland Management <br />May '04 Draft <br /> <br />page 4 <br /> <br /> <br />