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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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