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Chapter 919: Definitions
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<br />Site Plan: A scaled drawing that depicts existing and proposed physical improvements including
<br />parcel boundaries, easements, topography, natural features and nearby off-site conditions.
<br />Usually submitted to the City as part of an application for a land development or a building
<br />permit.
<br />Sketch Plan: An informal drawing, not submitted as an application, that depicts a potential site
<br />plan or plat, used by applicants for preliminary discussions and reviews with City staff.
<br />Slope: Means the degree of deviation of surface from the horizontal, usually expressed in percent
<br />or degrees.
<br />Solar Energy System: A set of devices whose primary purpose is to collect solar energy and
<br />convert and store it for useful purposes including heating and cooling buildings or other energy-
<br />using processes, or to produce generated power by means of any combination of collecting,
<br />transferring, or converting solar-generated energy.
<br />Special Flood Hazard Area: The land in the floodplain within a community subject to a 1% or
<br />greater chance of flooding in any given year. The area may be designated as Zone A on the
<br />FHBM. After detailed ratemaking has been completed in preparation for publication of the flood
<br />insurance rate map, Zone A usually is refined into Zones A, AO, AH, A1-30, AE, A99, AR,
<br />AR/A1-30, AR/AE, AR/AO, AR/AH, AR/A, VO, or V1-30, VE, or V. For purposes of these
<br />regulations, the term Special Flood Hazard Area is synonymous in meaning with the phrase Area
<br />of Special Flood Hazard.
<br />Stabilization: The exposed ground surface has been covered by appropriate materials such as
<br />mulch, staked sod, riprap, wood fiber blanket, or other material that prevents erosion from
<br />occurring. Grass seeding is not stabilization.
<br />Start of Construction: The first land-disturbing activity associated with a development,
<br />including land preparation such as clearing, grading, excavation and filling.
<br />Steep Slope: Land where agricultural activity or development is either not recommended or
<br />described as poorly suited due to slope steepness and the site’s soil characteristics, as mapped and
<br />described in available county soil surveys or other technical reports, unless appropriate design and
<br />construction techniques and farming practices are used in accordance with the provisions of this
<br />ordinance. Where specific information is not available, steep slopes are lands having average
<br />slopes over 12 percent, as measured over horizontal distances of 50 feet or more, which are not
<br />bluffs.
<br />Storm Shelter: An accessory building specifically designed and used for the protection of life
<br />from weather events.
<br />Storm Water; Defined under Minn. R. 7077.0105, subp. 41(b), and includes precipitation runoff,
<br />storm water runoff, snow melt runoff, and any other surface runoff and drainage.
<br />Storm Water Pollution Prevention Program (SWPPP) : A program for managing and
<br />reducing storm water discharge that includes erosion prevention measures and sediment controls
<br />that, when implemented, will decrease soil erosion on a parcel of land and decrease off-site non-
<br />point pollution.
<br />Stormwater Treatment Practices. Measures, either structural or nonstructural, that are
<br />determined to be the most effective and practical means of preventing or reducing point source or
<br />non-point-source pollution inputs to stormwater runoff and water bodies.
<br />Story: That portion of a building included beneath the upper surface of a floor and upper
<br />surface of the floor next above, or 14 feet, whichever is less, except that the topmost story
<br />shall be that portion of a building included between the upper surface of the topmost floor
<br />and the ceiling or roof above. If the finished floor level directly above a basement or cellar,
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