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1 Public river corridor views. Views toward the river from public parkland, historic properties, and public
<br />2 overlooks, as well as views toward bluffs from the ordinary high water level of the opposite shore,
<br />3 as seen during the summer months and documented in the MRCCA plan/chapter of the
<br />4 comprehensive plan.
<br />5 Public transportation facilities. All transportation facilities provided by federal, state, or local government
<br />6 and dedicated to public use, such as roadways, transit facilities, railroads, and bikeways.
<br />7 Public utilities. Electric power facilities, essential services, and transmission services.
<br />8 Public waters. Having the meaning given under Minn. Stats. § 103G.005.
<br />9 Readily visible. Land and development that are easily seen from the ordinary high water level of the
<br />10 opposite shore during summer months.
<br />11 Religious Institution means a building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, where persons
<br />12 regularly assemble for religious worship and which building, together with its accessory buildings
<br />13 and uses, is maintained and controlled by a religious body organized to sustain public worship.
<br />14 Resource agency. A federal, state, regional, or local agency that engages in environmental, natural, or
<br />15 cultural resource protection or restoration activities, including planning, implementation, and
<br />16 monitoring.
<br />17 Retaining wall. A vertical or nearly vertical structures constructed of mortar and rubble masonry, rock, or
<br />18 stone regardless of size, vertical timber pilings, horizontal timber planks with piling supports, sheet
<br />19 pilings, poured concrete, concrete blocks, or other durable materials.
<br />20 Rock Riprap. Natural coarse rock placed or constructed to armor shorelines, streambeds, bridge
<br />21 abutments, pilings and other shoreline structures against scour, or water or ice erosion.
<br />22 River corridor boundary. The boundary approved and adopted by the Metropolitan Council under Minn.
<br />23 Stats. § 116G.06, as approved and adopted by the legislature in Minn. Stats. § 116G.15, and as
<br />24 legally described in the Sate Register, volume 43, pages 508 to 518.
<br />25 River -dependent use. The use of land for commercial, industrial, or utility purposes, where access to and
<br />26 use of a public water feature is an integral part of the normal conduct of business and where the
<br />27 use is dependent on shoreline facilities.
<br />28 Selective vegetation removal. The removal of isolated individual trees or shrubs that are not in a
<br />29 contiguous patch, strip, row, or block and that does not substantially reduce the tree canopy or
<br />30 understory cover.
<br />31 Setback. A separation distance measured horizontally.
<br />32 Shore impact zone. Land located between the ordinary high water level of public waters and a line parallel
<br />33 to it at a setback of 50 percent of the required structure setback or, for agricultural use, 50 feet
<br />34 landward of the ordinary high water level. See Figure 4.
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