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Preliminary Draft Definitions — Revised November 5, 2010 <br />Access Path = an area designated to provide ingress and egress to public waters. <br />Bluff Impact Zone (BIZ) = land on and within 20' of a bluff. (For definition of bluff, see Sheet 2) <br />Intensive Vegetation Clearing = substantial removal of trees or shrubs in a contiguous patch, strip, row or block. (Includes clear cutting.) <br />Natural State = where the condition, composition, and diversity of the plant community is substantially unaltered by humans; or where restoration has been consistent with commissioner guidelines or local government approved plans. <br />Shore Impact Zone (SR) = land located between the OHWL of a public water and a Tine parallel to it at 50% of the required structure setback. <br />Slope Preservation Zone (SPZ) = land on and within 20' of very steep slopes. (Includes the BIZ; for definition of very steep slopes, see Sheet 2) <br />Prepared by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, November 5,2010 <br />Standard <br />Type <br />Preliminary Draft Standards <br />Executive Order 79 -19 <br />Current Standards <br />(Currently in effect; all local plans and ordinances must be consistent with <br />these standards and guidelines.) <br />Interim Development Regulations (IDR) <br />(EO 790 provided the IDRs as temporary standards until local MRCCA <br />ordinances were approved by the EQB. Hastings, Brooklyn Center, and <br />a smallarea m Hennepin County are still subject to thelORS because <br />they do not have approved MRCCA ordinances. The DNR used some of <br />the IDRs in drafting new MRCCA rules, and same LGUs used portions of <br />the IDRS in current ordinances. The IDRS are provided here for <br />reference. Local ordinances, which vary wide)), will contain the current <br />effective standards in any given community.) <br />The establishment or restoration of native vegetation, while not required, may be <br />achieved through mitigation when mitigation is required by these rules. Mitigation will <br />E. Earthwork and vegetation <br />2. Vegetation management. <br />Vegetation <br />Restoration <br />be proportionate to the impacts of the development. <br />c. These vegetative management standards shall not <br />prevent the pruning and cutting of vegetation to the <br />minimum amount necessary for the construction of <br />bridges and roadways and for the safe installation, <br />maintenance and operation of essential services and <br />utility transmission services which are permitted uses. <br />lithe vegetation management provisions are not complied with, the reestablishment <br />of comparable species of native vegetation in the same area will be required. The LGU <br />must require a restoration plan. At minimum, the plan must require the planting of <br />comparable species, composition, density and diversity of native vegetation in the <br />Ma. e <br />same area. Open areas or lawns resulting from violations must be left unmowed or <br />uncut and planted with comparable species of native vegetation in the same area. The <br />See standards and guidelines on previous page. <br />F. Dimensional standards and criteria. <br />7. Line of Sight <br />Violations <br />LGU must issue a Certificate of Compliance when it has determined that the <br />restoration plan has been successfully implemented. All aspects of the plan must be <br />maintained in perpetuity and loss of plantings must be replaced in kind. <br />In Rural Open Space, Urban Developed, and Urban Open <br />Space districts, the development of new and expansion of <br />existing industrial and commercial uses and development <br />shall be permitted, if it cannot be seen from the NHWM on <br />the opposite side of the river. Water - related commercial <br />and industrial uses shall not be subject to this <br />requirement. <br />Preliminary Draft Definitions — Revised November 5, 2010 <br />Access Path = an area designated to provide ingress and egress to public waters. <br />Bluff Impact Zone (BIZ) = land on and within 20' of a bluff. (For definition of bluff, see Sheet 2) <br />Intensive Vegetation Clearing = substantial removal of trees or shrubs in a contiguous patch, strip, row or block. (Includes clear cutting.) <br />Natural State = where the condition, composition, and diversity of the plant community is substantially unaltered by humans; or where restoration has been consistent with commissioner guidelines or local government approved plans. <br />Shore Impact Zone (SR) = land located between the OHWL of a public water and a Tine parallel to it at 50% of the required structure setback. <br />Slope Preservation Zone (SPZ) = land on and within 20' of very steep slopes. (Includes the BIZ; for definition of very steep slopes, see Sheet 2) <br />Prepared by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, November 5,2010 <br />