Resolution 2525 - Laserfiche WebLink

Home Browse Search

. . , RESOLUTION NO. 2525 PAGE TWO . and people within the City, as well as within the Rice Creek Watershed District: that existing and potential development within the City and Rice Creek Watershed District poses increasing ecological and economic problems and demands, having the effect of potentially despoiling, polluting, accelerating the aging, eliminating or negatively and irretrievably altering both the wetlands and their functions (and the processes associated therewith) which, if conserved and maintained, constitute important physical, educational, ecological, aesthetic, recreational, and economic assets for existing and future residents of the community and the Rice Creek Watershed District: and WHEREAS, the City Council has found the intent of Chapter 48 to be the following: Chapter 48.01, Subd. 2A . To preserve wetlands in as natural a state as possible to serve as natural retention and detention areas for surface waters: to regulate the use of areas adjacent to the wetlands in order to protect the natural function of the wetlands: to provide for the protection, preservation, proper maintenance and use of wetland zoning districts: to minimize the disturbance to them and to prevent damage from excessive sedimentation, eutrophication, or pollution: to prevent loss of beneficial aquatic organisms, wildlife, and vegetation of the habitats of the same: to provide for the protection of fresh water supplies from the danger of drought, overdraft, pollution, or mismanagement: to secure safety from floods: to reduce the financial burdens imposed upon the community through rescue and relief efforts occasioned by the occupancy or use of areas subject to periodic flooding: to prevent loss of life, property damage, and the losses and risks associated with flood conditions: to reduce the financial burdens imposed upon the community through correction of erosion problems that, with proper foresight, could be avoided: to avoid the financial burden of the need for the community to reclaim its water quality: and to preserve the location, character and extent of natural drainage courses: and WHEREAS, in the granting of a wetland alteration permit, the City Council must find each of the following in Section 40.26, Subd. D, to be true: . (1) Exceptional or extraordinary circumstances apply to the properties which do not apply generally to other properties in the same zone or vicinity and result from lot size or shape, topography or other circumstances over which the owners of the property, since enactment of this Code, have no control.