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<br />Chapter 16 - Shoreland Ordinance <br />Draft No. 7 - City Council 2nd Reading - April 4, 2005 <br />Page 5 of 38 <br /> <br />forested lands to prepare for a new land use other than reestab~ishment of a <br />subsequent forest stand. <br /> <br />Hardship. "Hardship" means the same as that term is defined in Minnesota <br />Statutes, Chapter 462. <br /> <br />Height of building. "Height of building" means the vertical distance between the <br />highest adjoining ground level at the building or ten feet above the lowest ground <br />level, whichever is lower, and the highest point of a flat roof or average height of <br />the highest gable of a pitched or hipped roof. <br /> <br />Industrial use. "Industrial use" means the use of land or buildings for the <br />production, manufacture, warehousing, storage, or transfer of goods, products, <br />commodities, or other wholesale items. <br /> <br />Intensive vegetation clearing. "Intensive vegetation clearing" means the <br />complete removal of trees or shrubs in a contiguous patch, strip, row, or block. <br /> <br />Lot width. "Lot width" means the shortest distance between lot lines measured <br />at the midpoint of the building line. <br /> <br />Nonconformity. "Nonconformity" means any legal use, structure or parcel of land <br />already in existence, recorded, or authorized before the adoption of official <br />controls or amendments thereto that would not have been permitted to become <br />established under the terms of the official controls as now written, if the official <br />controls had been in effect prior to the date it was established, recorded or <br />authorized. <br /> <br />Ordinary high water level (OWHL). "Ordinary high water level" means the <br />boundary of public waters and wetlands, and shall be an elevation delineating <br />the highest water level which has been maintained for a sufficient period of time <br />to leave evidence upon the landscape, commonly that point where the <br /> <br />natural vegetation changes from predominantly aquatic to predominantly <br />terrestrial. For watercourses, the ordinary high water level is the elevation of the <br />top of the bank of the channel. For reservoirs and flowages, the ordinary high <br />water level is the operating elevation of the normal summer pool. <br /> <br />Public waters. "Public waters" means any waters as defined in Minnesota <br />Statutes, section 105.37, subdivisions 11 ~md 15 103.G. <br /> <br />Riparian. "Riparian" means land or uses located adjacent to the bank of a river <br />or lake. <br /> <br />Semipublic use. "Semipublic use" means the use of land by a private, nonprofit <br />