Agenda - Council Work Session - 01/11/2011

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Use Standard Type Preliminary Draft Standards Executive Order 79 -19 Current Standards (Currently in effect; all local plans and ordinances must be consistent with these standards and guidelines.) Interim Development Regulations (IDR) (EO 79 -19 provided the IDRs as temporary standards until local MRCCA ordinances were approved by the EQB. Hastings, Brooklyn Center, and a small area in Hennepin County are still subject to the IDRS because they do not have approved MRCCA ordinances. The DNR used some of the IDRs in drafting new MRCCA rules, and some LGUs have used portions of the IDRs in their current ordinances. The IDRs are provided here for reference. Local ordinances, which vary widely, will contain the current effective standards in any given community.) See standards for structure setbacks and screening, and See standards and guidelines on previous page. D. Permitted public facilities. 2. Sewage treatment plants — sewage outfalls, water intake facilities a. In Rural Open Space, Urban Developed, and Urban Diversified districts, the provision of sewage treatment plants, sewage outfalls and water intake facilities: shoreline facilities on previous page. C.10. LGUs and regional and state agencies shall prepare plans and regulations in accordance with the natural characteristics and the character of existing development in the River Corridor in accordance River- with the following guidelines: (1) wherever practicable, shall conform with the dimensional standards Dependent b. The City of St. Paul shall prepare plans and regulations to balance and criteria in section F; Commercial & Water open space use and industrial and commercial developments in (2) shall dedicate the unused river frontage after construction, for public Industrial Uses, Water Supply, Wastewater Supply, Wastewater Treatment, the Pig's Eye Lake area. access or recreation open space use; (3) shall not include new combined storm and sanitary sewer outfalls. b. In Urban Open Space district: Treatment, Stormwater Facilities, Hydropower Starmwater Facilities, Hydropower (1) no new sewage treatment plans shall be permitted in this district. However, the Metropolitan Waste Control Commission may expand the Metropolitan Wastewater Treatment Plant at the Pig's Eye Lake area, if the expansion plans are approved by the Metropolitan Council and they are consistent with the City of St. Paul's riverfront plan approved by the Council under section D of the standards and guidelines for preparing plans and regulations; (2) no new water intake facilities shall be permitted; (3) no new combined storm water and sanitary outfalls shall be permitted. Preliminary Draft Definitions — Revised November 5, 2010 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.) Bluff Impact Zone (BIZ) = land on and within 20 feet of a bluff. (For definition of bluff, see Sheet 2.) Shore Impact Zone (SIZ) = land located between the OHWL of a public water and a line parallel to it at a setback of 50% of the structure setback. (MN Rules, Chapter 6120) River - Dependent Commercial & Industrial Use = the use of land for commercial or industrial purposes, where access to and use of a surface water feature is an integral part of the normal conductance of business, including but not limited to barge facilities and marinas. Shoreline Facilities = facilities that require a location adjoining the water, for ingress & egress, loading & unloading, and public water input & output, including but not limited to barge facilities, commodity loading and unloading equipment, watercraft lifts, marinas and short -term watercraft mooring for patrons . Structures that would be enhanced by a shoreline location, but do not require a location adjoining the water, are not shoreline facilities (e.g., restaurants, bait shops & boat dealerships). Prepared by Minnesota Department of Natural Resources, November 5, 2010