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enjoyment of these spaces. OPEN SPACES may include natural habitats, places for neighborhood
<br />recreation and pedestrian corridors.
<br /> ORDINARY HIGH WATER LEVEL. The boundary of public waters and wetlands and shall be an
<br />elevation delineating the highest water level which has been maintained for a sufficient period of time to
<br />leave evidence upon the landscape, commonly that point where the natural vegetation changes from
<br />predominantly aquatic to predominantly terrestrial.
<br /> PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT. A type of development characterized by a unified site design for a
<br />number of dwelling units or dwelling sites on a parcel, whether for sale, rent or lease, and also usually
<br />involving clustering of these units or sites to provide areas of common open space, density increase, and a
<br />mix of structure types and land uses. These developments may be organized and operated as
<br />condominiums, time-share condominiums, cooperatives, full fee ownership, commercial enterprises, or any
<br />combination of these, or cluster subdivisions of dwelling units, residential condominiums, townhouses,
<br />apartment buildings, campgrounds, recreational vehicle parks, resorts, hotels, motels and conversions of
<br />structures and land uses to these uses.
<br /> PUBLIC WATERS. Any waters as defined in M.S. § 103G.005, Subd. 15, as it may be amended from
<br />time to time.
<br /> RESIDENTIAL PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT. A use where the nature of residency is
<br />nontransient and the major or primary focus of the development is not service-oriented. For example,
<br />residential apartments, manufactured home parks, time-share condominiums, townhouses, cooperatives and
<br />full fee ownership residences would be considered as RESIDENTIAL PLANNED UNIT
<br />DEVELOPMENT. To qualify as a residential PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT, a development must
<br />contain at least five dwelling units or sites.
<br /> RESORT PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT. Typically uses that provide transient, short-term
<br />lodging spaces, rooms or parcels and their operations are essentially service-oriented. For example,
<br />hotel/motel accommodations, resorts, recreational vehicle and camping parks, and other primarily service-
<br />oriented activities are resort planned unit developments.
<br /> SEMIPUBLIC USE. The use of land by a private, nonprofit organization to provide a public service that
<br />is ordinarily open to some persons outside the regular constituency of the organization.
<br /> SENSITIVE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT. The preservation and management of areas unsuitable for
<br />development in their natural state due to constraints such as shallow soils over groundwater or bedrock,
<br />highly erosive or expansive soils, steep slopes, susceptibility to flooding or occurrence of flora or fauna in
<br />need of special protection.
<br /> SETBACK. The minimum horizontal distance between a structure, sewage treatment system or other
<br />facility and an ordinary high water level, sewage treatment system, road, highway, property line or other
<br />facility.
<br /> SEWER SYSTEM. Pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, and force main and all other construction,
<br />devices, appliances or appurtenances used for conducting sewage or industrial waste or other wastes to a
<br />point of ultimate disposal.
<br /> SEWAGE TREATMENT SYSTEM. A septic tank and soil absorption system or other individual or
<br />cluster type sewage treatment system as described and regulated in § 1102.11 of this chapter.
<br /> SHORE IMPACT ZONE. Land located between the ordinary high water level of a public water and a
<br />line parallel to it at a setback of 50% of the structure setback.
<br /> SHORELAND. Land located within 1,000 feet from the ordinary high water level of the lakes and land
<br />located within 300 feet from the streams classified in § 1102.05 or the landward extent of a flood plain
<br />designated by ordinance on a river or stream, whichever is greater. The limits of shorelands may be reduced
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