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1 Motor Vehicle repair means general repair, rebuilding or reconditioning engines, motor vehicles or
<br /> 2 trailers, collision service, including body,frame or fender straightening or repair,overall painting or
<br /> 3 paint job, minor repairs, replacement of parts, and motor services.
<br /> 4 Motor Vehicle Sales and Showrooms means a business that is licensed by the State of Minnesota as
<br /> 5 defined by Minn.Stats. 168.271 subd. 1(f)for new motor vehicle dealers, used motor vehicle dealers,
<br /> 6 motor vehicle brokers, wholesalers, auctioneers, lessors of new or used motor vehicles. This
<br /> 7 definition does not include scrap metal processors, used vehicle parts dealers, and salvage pools.
<br /> 8 Native plant community. A plant community that has been identified as part of the Minnesota Biological
<br /> 9 Survey or biological survey issued or adopted by a local, state, or federal agency.
<br /> 10 Natural area means an area that does not include noxious weeds that is purposely left to grow in a
<br /> 11 natural state and contains vegetation that can maintain itself in a stable condition.
<br /> 12 Natural-surface trail. A trail composed of native soil and rock or compacted granular stone, primarily
<br /> 13 intended for hiking, equestrian, or mountain bike use, as determined by local, regional, or state
<br /> 14 agency plans.
<br /> 15 Natural vegetation.Any combination of ground cover, understory,and tree canopy that,while it may have
<br /> 16 been altered by human activity, continues to stabilize soils, retain and filter runoff, provide habitat,
<br /> 17 and recharge groundwater.
<br /> 18 Nonconforming use means any use of land established before the effective date of the ordinance from
<br /> 19 which this chapter is derived which does not conform to the use restrictions of a particular zoning
<br /> 20 district.This should not be confused with substandard dimensions of a conforming use.
<br /> 21 Nonconforming use, illegal, means a building, structure, premises, or use which at the time of its
<br /> 22 establishment did not comply or conform with the applicable conditions or provisions of this Code
<br /> 23 which were in effect at such date, and which continues such noncompliance and nonconformance
<br /> 24 with the present Code.
<br /> 25 Nonconforming use, legal, means a building, structure, premises, or use which at the time of its
<br /> 26 establishment was in compliance and conformance with the applicable conditions and provisions
<br /> 27 of this Code which were in effect at such date, but which does not now comply or conform to
<br /> 28 conditions and provisions of the current Code.
<br /> 29 Nonconformity. Having the meaning given under Minn. Stats. § 394.22.
<br /> 30 Noncomplying Sewage Treatment System has the same meaning as in Chapter 113.
<br /> 31 Nonmetallic mining. Construction, reconstruction, repair, relocation, expansion, or removal of any facility
<br /> 32 for the extraction, stockpiling, storage, disposal, or reclamation of nonmetallic minerals such a
<br /> 33 stone,sand,and gravel. Nonmetallic mining does not include ancillary facilities such as access roads,
<br /> 34 bridges, culverts, and water level control structures. For purposes of this subpart, "facility" includes
<br /> 35 all mine pits, quarries, stockpiles, basins, processing structures and equipment, and any structures
<br /> 36 that drain or divert public waters to allow mining.
<br /> 37 Obstruction means any dam, wall, wharf, embankment, levee, dike, pile, abutment, projection,
<br /> 38 excavation, channel modification, culvert, building, wire, fence, stockpile, refuse, fill, structure, or
<br /> 39 matter in, along,across,or projecting into any channel,watercourse,or regulatory floodplain which
<br /> 40 may impede, retard, or change the direction of the flow of water, either in itself or by catching or
<br /> 41 collecting debris carried by such water.
<br /> 42 Off-premise advertising signs. Those signs that direct attention to a product, service, business, or
<br /> 43 entertainment venue that is not exclusively related to the premises where the sign is located.
<br /> 44 Off-street loading space means a space accessible from the street, alley or way, in a building or on the lot
<br /> 45 for the use of trucks while loading or unloading merchandise or materials. Such space shall be of
<br /> 46 such size as to accommodate one truck of the type typically used in the particular business and shall
<br /> 47 be exclusive of general public and employee parking spaces.
<br /> 48 On site means any location within the boundaries of a site.
<br /> 49 One hundred-year floodplain means lands inundated by the regional flood.
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