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<br />. <br /> <br />operations are essentially service-oriented. For example, <br />hotel/motel accommodations, resorts, recreational vehicle and <br />camping parks, and other primarily service-oriented activities <br />are commercial planned unit developments. <br /> <br />COMMERCIAL USE: "Commercial use" means the principal use <br />of land or buildings for the sale, lease, rental, or trade of <br />products, goods, and services. <br /> <br />COMMISSIONER: "Commissioner" means the commissioner of the <br />Department of Natural Resources. <br /> <br />DECK: "Deck" means a horizontal, unenclosed platform with <br />or without attached railings, seats, trellises, or other <br />features, attached or functionally related to a principal use <br />or site and at any point extending more than thirty inches <br />above ground. <br /> <br />DWELLING SITE: "Dwelling site" means a designated location <br />for residential use by one or more persons using temporary or <br />movable shelter, including camping and recreational vehicle <br />sites. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />DWELLING UNIT: "Dwelling unit" means any structure or <br />portion of a structure, or other shelter designed as short-or <br />long-term living quarters for one or more persons, including <br />rental or time-share accommodations such as motel, hotel, rooms <br />and cabins. <br /> <br />HARDSHIP: "Hardship" means the same as that term is defined <br />in Minnesota Statutes, Chapter 462. <br /> <br />HEIGHT OF BUILDING: "Height of building" means the vertical <br />distance between the highest adjoining ground level at the <br />building or ten feet above the lowest ground level, whichever <br />is lower, and the highest point of a flat roof or average <br />height of the highest gable of a pitched or hipped roof. <br /> <br />INDUSTRIAL USE: "Industrial use" means the use of land or <br />buildings for the production, manufacture, warehousing, <br />storage, or transfer of goods, products, commodities, or other <br />wholesale items. <br /> <br />INTENSIVE VEGETATION CLEARING: "Intensive vegetation <br />clearing" means the complete removal of trees or shrubs in a <br />contiguous patch, strip, row, or block. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />ORDINARY HIGH WATER LEVEL: "Ordinary high water level" means <br />the boundary of public waters and wetlands, and shall be an <br />elevation delineating the highest water level which has been <br />maintained for a sufficient period of time to leave evidence <br />upon the landscape, commonly that point where the natural <br />vegetation changes from predominantly aquatic to predominantly <br />terrestrial. For watercourses, the ordinary high water level <br />is the elevation of the top of the bank of the channel. For <br /> <br />9.148 <br />