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<br /> <br /> Page 10 <br />Equipment rental means the temporary leasing of tools, materials, or equipment. <br />Essential services (public utility uses) means underground or overhead gas, electrical, steam or water <br />distribution systems, and collection, communication, supply or disposal systems, including poles, <br />wires, mains, drains, sewer, pipes, conduits, cables, traffic signals, hydrants, or other similar <br />equipment and accessories in conjunction therewith, but not including buildings or transmission <br />services. <br />Excavation means the removal of sand, gravel, rock, clay, silt, soil, or other like material from the <br />land. The material shall not leave the parcel from which it originated. <br />Exterior storage means the storage of goods, materials, equipment, manufactured products and <br />similar items not fully enclosed by a building. <br />Façade means that portion of any exterior elevation on the building extending from grade to top <br />of the parapet, wall, or eaves and the entire width of the building elevation. <br />Family means any number of individuals generally, but not necessarily, related by blood and <br />marriage, living together at one location as a single, nonprofit housekeeping unit, as distinguished <br />from a group occupying a boardinghouse or roominghouse, tourist home, hotel or motel. <br />Farm dwelling means a building designed for residential occupation by human beings located on a <br />farm, the occupant of which owns the farm or is employed thereon. <br />Farm winery means an agricultural processing facility used for the fermenting and processing of <br />grape and other fruit juices into wine or the refermenting of wine into sparkling wine. When on-site <br />sales are included the facility shall be licensed and follow all provisions of Minn. Stats. § 340A.315. <br />Feedlot means a confined area used for housing or feeding poultry or livestock where substantial <br />amounts of animal waste will be generated, but not including barns or pens which are accessory uses <br />incidental to a farming operation. For the purpose of section 30-803, feedlots shall include only <br />those operations with more than ten animal units. <br />Fence means a partition, structure, wall, or gate erected as a dividing marker, visual or physical <br />barrier or enclosure. <br />Festoon means a string of ribbons, tinsel, small flags, or pinwheels. <br />Final plat means the final map, drawing or chart on which the subdivider's plan of subdivision is <br />presented to the city council for approval and which, if approved will be submitted to the county <br />recorder as required in state statutes. <br />Financial institution means an establishment where the principal business is the receipt, <br />disbursement or exchange of funds and currencies, such as: bank, savings and loan, credit union, <br />mortgage office, or automated teller machine (ATM). Financial institution shall not include a <br />currency exchange. <br /> <br />Fire chief means the fire chief for the city, or his designated agents authorized to enforce article <br />III of this chapter pertaining to housing standards. <br />Fire code means the current Minnesota Fire Code and its amendments as adopted by the city. <br />Firearm means any device, designed to be used as a weapon, which will or is designed to or may <br />readily be converted to expel a projectile by the action of an explosive or other form or combustion,