Agenda - Planning Commission - 03/07/1995

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Environmental protection § 9.21 2. The applicant can demonstrate that development during and after construction can be accomplished without increasing erosion and runoff and that there is proper utilization of controls to reduce runoff to non-destructive levels. 3. The proposed development presents no danger of falling rock, mud, uprooted trees or other material to structures, recreational facilities, public lands and public waters down hill. 4. All structures other than buildings and roadway surfaces but including retaining walls shall meet the following design requirements: (a) Retaining walls or terrace contours shall not exceed five feet in height; (b) Conswaction shall be of natural stone, wood, or concrete; (c) The use of gabbions non-wood pilings, metal retaining walls and pre-cast or cast in place concrete retaining walls is specifically prohibited; and (d) The minimum width of terraces shall be 10 feet. 5. For the Critical River Area Overlay District, all structures shall be screened so as to be visually inconspicuous or difficult to see as viewed from the river during the summer months. Subd. 3. Emergency and Exemptions. When emergency work is performed under this section, the person performing it shall report the pertinent facts relating to the work to the City Engineer and Zoning Administrator prior to the commencement of work. The Zoning Administrator shall review the facts and determine whether an emergency exists and shall by written memorandum authorize the commencement of the emergency exception or deny the emergency exception, in which case no work may be commenced. A person commencing emergency work shall within 10 days following the commencement of that activity, apply for the issuance of an environmental permit and on the issuance thereof may be required to perform such work as is determined to be reasonably necessary to correct any impairment to the wetland occasioned by such emergency work. The removal of trees, seriously damaged by storms or other acts of God, or diseased trees, shall not be prohibited. Subd. 4. Permit Applications. Required Data. Environmental permits except where hereinafter noted,, shall be issued by the Council after written findings from the Planning Commission and City Staff. A written application for an environmental permit must be submitted to the Zoning Administrator. Such applications shall include a site plan with adequate evidence to show that the proposed use will conform to the standards set forth in this section. Five sets of clearly legible blue or black-lined copies or drawings and required information shall be submitted to the Zoning Administrator and shall be accompanied by a receipt from the Administrator evidencing the payment of all required site plan fees. No permit or variance shall be issued unless the applicant in support of their application shall submit engineering data, surveys, site plans and other information as the City may require in order to determine the effects of such development on the affected lands and water areas. Such data, etc. shall be prepared by hydrologists, biologists, botanists or other technical persons as required by the Zoning Administrator. Approval may be expressly given in conjunction with other permits applied for, but no approval shall be implied from the grant of such permits. ao The site plans shall be prepared to a scale appropriate to the size of the project and suitable for the review to be performed which shall not be less than one inch equals 200 feet or more than one inch equals ten feet.