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1 Regulatory flood protection elevation means an elevation no lower than one foot above the elevation of
<br />2 the regional flood plus any increases in flood elevation caused by encroachments on the
<br />3 floodplain that result from designation of a floodway.
<br />4 Religious Institution means a building, together with its accessory buildings and uses, where persons
<br />5 regularly assemble for religious worship and which building, together with its accessory buildings
<br />6 and uses, is maintained and controlled by a religious body organized to sustain public worship.
<br />7 Resource agency. A federal, state, regional, or local agency that engages in environmental, natural, or
<br />8 cultural resource protection or restoration activities, including planning, implementation, and
<br />9 monitoring.
<br />10 Retaining wall. A vertical or nearly vertical structures constructed of mortar and rubble masonry, rock, or
<br />11 stone regardless of size, vertical timber pilings, horizontal timber planks with piling supports, sheet
<br />12 pilings, poured concrete, concrete blocks, or other durable materials.
<br />13 Right-of-way means the area within the limits of a street, alley, pedestrian way, thoroughfare or
<br />14 easement.
<br />15 River corridor boundary. The boundary approved and adopted by the Metropolitan Council under Minn.
<br />16 Stats. § 116G.06, as approved and adopted by the legislature in Minn. Stats. § 116G.15, and as
<br />17 legally described in the Sate Register, volume 43, pages 508 to 518.
<br />18 River -dependent use. The use of land for commercial, industrial, or utility purposes, where access to and
<br />19 use of a public water feature is an integral part of the normal conduct of business and where the
<br />20 use is dependent on shoreline facilities.
<br />21 Rock Riprap. Natural coarse rock placed or constructed to armor shorelines, streambeds, bridge
<br />22 abutments, pilings and other shoreline structures against scour, or water or ice erosion.
<br />23 Sediment means the product of an erosion process; solid material both mineral and organic, that is in
<br />24 suspension, is being transported, or has been moved by water, air, or ice, and has come to rest on
<br />25 the earth's surface either above or below water level.
<br />26 Sediment control means the methods employed to prevent sediment from leaving the development site.
<br />27 Sediment control practices include silt fences, sediment traps, earth dikes, drainage swales, check
<br />28 dams, subsurface drains, pipe slope drains, storm drain inlet protection, and temporary or
<br />29 permanent sedimentation basins.
<br />30 Sedimentation means the process or action of depositing sediment caused by erosion.
<br />31 Selective cutting means the removal of single scattered trees.
<br />32 Selective vegetation removal. The removal of isolated individual trees or shrubs that are not in a
<br />33 contiguous patch, strip, row, or block and that does not substantially reduce the tree canopy or
<br />34 u n d e rsto ry cover.
<br />35 Setback means the minimum horizontal distance between a use and lot line or other distinguished area.
<br />36 Distances are to be measured from ground level except as provided hereinafter.
<br />37 Setback (MRCCA). A separation distance measured horizontally.
<br />38 Semi-public use means the use of land by a private, nonprofit organization to provide a public service that
<br />39 is ordinarily open to some persons outside the regular constituency of the organization.
<br />40 Sewage treatment system means:
<br />41 (1) Any system for the collection, treatment and dispersion of sewage including but not limited
<br />42 to septic tanks, soil absorption systems and drain fields; or
<br />43 (2) Septic tank and soil absorption system or other individual or cluster type sewage treatment
<br />44 system as described and regulated in this chapter.
<br />45 Shore impactzone (Shoreland) means land located between the ordinary high water level of a public water
<br />46 and a line parallel to it at a setback of 50 percent of the structure setback.
<br />47 Shore impact zone (MRCCA). Land located between the ordinary high water level of public waters and a
<br />48 line parallel to it at a setback of 50 percent of the required structure setback or, for agricultural use,
<br />49 50 feet landward of the ordinary high water level. See Figure 1.
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