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Environmental <br /> <br />protection § 9.21 <br /> standards of §8.3 shall be brought into conformance or discontinued <br /> within five years from the date of enactment of this Section. <br /> <br />9.21.05 Environmental permits and standards. <br /> <br /> Subdivision 1.Environmental Permit. To insure that the policies in this <br />section are properly implemented, any person undertaking development to or on any land within <br />the Shoreland and Critical River overlay districts shall, prior to commencing the work, <br />obtain an environmental permit from the City. Except as hereinafter provided in this section, no <br />person shall perform any development in the overlay districts without first having obtained an <br />environmental permit (hereinafter called permit) from the City. Exempted from this environmental <br />permit requirement shall be all lots within a plat of record in the Anoka County Recorder's Office. <br />Ouflots contained within a plat shall not be exempted from this permit requirement. <br /> <br />Notwithstanding this permit exemption, development occurring on any lot, whether in a plat or <br />not, must comply with and conform to the "Permit Standards" as outlined in the following section. <br /> <br /> Subfl. 2. Permit Standards. The following standards shall be met when any <br />development is undertaken within the overlay districts. <br /> <br /> a. No filling, grading, dredging, excavation or construction shall be <br /> allowed within any wetlands area; nor on lands abutting, adjoining or <br /> affecting said areas if such activity upon those adjacent areas is <br /> incompatible with City policies expressed here, in other documents and <br /> in the relevant storm water drainage study. Development is improper <br /> and therefore prohibited which may result in loss and damage to public <br /> and private improvements through inundation by flood waters and <br /> subsequent expensive construction of storm sewers and other public <br /> projects, in the permanent destruction of natural resources, loss of water <br /> retention facilities, open space and wildlife habitats and impairment of <br /> public and private water supplies. Minimum area requirements for <br /> building sites shall be determined in accordance with Section 9.04 of the <br /> City Code, the standards of the Shoreland Overlay District and the <br /> Critical Rivers Area Overlay District. <br /> <br /> b. Except in the Critical River Overlay Area, a minimum amount <br /> of filling may be allowed when necessary, but in no case shall the <br /> following restrictions on total amount of filling be exceeded. Since the <br /> total amount of filling which can be permitted is limited, the City, when <br /> considering permit applications, shall consider the equal apportionment <br /> of fill opportunity to riparian land owners. <br /> Total filling shall not cause the total natural flood storage capacity of the <br /> wetland to fall below the projected volume of runoff from the entire area <br /> wetland water shed generated by a ten-year storm. <br /> <br /> Total filling shall not cause the total natural nutrient stripping capacity of <br /> the wetland to fall below the nutrient production of the wetland <br /> watershed shed for its projected development. <br /> <br /> Only fill, free of chemical pollutants and organic wastes, may be used. <br /> Wetlands shall not be used for solid waste disposal. <br /> Grading and filling in overlay district areas or any alteration of the <br /> natural topography where the slope of the land is toward a protected <br /> water or a water-come leading to a protected water must be authorized <br /> by a permit. The permit may be granted subject to the conditions that: <br /> 1. The smallest amount of bare ground is exposed for as short a time <br /> as feasible. <br /> <br /> i <br /> I <br /> i <br /> I <br /> I <br /> ! <br /> I <br /> I <br /> I <br /> I <br /> I <br /> I <br /> I <br /> ! <br /> I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br />I <br /> <br /> <br />