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SECTION 10.01 twenty •(120) •degrees or less, measured on the lot side:, such curve shall be construed as a connecting street. T- (7) Boarding Houser A building or premises where meals are served by prearrangement for definite periods of time for compensation for five (5) or more persons, but not exceed- ing twenty (20) persons, not open to transients, in contradiction to hotels and restaur- ants open .to transients. (8) Building: Anything erected or constructed, the use of which requires more or less permanent location on the ground. The building area `of a building;shall be that area bounded by the exterior dimensions of the outer walls at the ground line. (9) Building Height: The vertical distance, measured from the mean elevation of the fin- ished grade along the front of the building to the highest point on- the roof for flat roofs; to the mean height level between the eaves and the ridge for• gable and hip roofs; to the deck line •for mansard roofs. • (10) Building Site Area The ground area of building or buildings, together with all . open spaces required by this ordinance. (11) Camp Site or, Camping Grounds: An area or premises providing facilities for over- night or short term 'campers in tents, camping trailers or trailers, together with neces- sary accessory buildings and service facilities which may be necessary for water supply and: waste disposal, and such other facilities as may be required by. the state board of health, together with a residence or living quarters for the owner or caretaker on the premises. Such camping grounds must be supervised during the season they are open to the public. (12) Club: An association for some common purpose, but not including a group organized _for or which is actually engaged in rendering a service which is customarily carried on as a business. A road house or tavern shall not be construed as a club. • (13) Colony House: A building for the breeding and raising of experimental and labora- , tory animals, such as white mice and rats, guinea pigs and the like, and for the storage of feed and accessory materials. (14) Condominium Apartment: An apartment house in which individual apartments may be offered for sale instead of for rent. (15) Definitions: When permitted uses are listed in certain districts and no definition - of. that use appears in this section then the dictionary definition or the commonly accepted definition will be applied. (15a) District or soil and water conservation district: means a county whose board of supervisors _has by resolution declared said county to be a soil and water conservation district. (16) Dumping Grounds:. An area owned or designated by a town, or owned by an incorpora- ted municipality, to be used for the dumping of rubbish, garbage or other waste mater- ial, subject to the provisions of Section 60.72 of the statutes. (17) Duplex: A residential building designed to be occupied by two families living independently of each other. (18) Dwelling: • (a) Single Family Dwelling: A building designed for and occupied exclusively as a resi- dence for one family. . (b) Multiple Family Dwelling: A building designed or intended to be used by more than two families living independently of each other. • • - 2 -