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City of Mounds View Staff Report ZEP Manufacturing February 27, 1997 Page 2 • landscaping, and drainage improvements. This step is considered technical in nature and does not require a public notice or public hearing before City Council. It is at this step when the City checks to make sure that the project design meets all the Zoning Code requirements such as setbacks, building height limits, and parking ratios. If all the technical criteria are met, the project is expected to be approved. The development review will be before Planning Commission for action on March 5 and is expected to be scheduled for City Council action on March 24. Although we are not intending to discuss the details of this project in the work session, since it will be before City Council at a later date, there are two issues which we would like to mention for background information. Wetland Alteration Permits: The City Council may want to become familiar with Chapter 1010: Wetland Zoning Regulations prior to your consideration of this project. The lot where ZEP Manufacturing is proposing to build includes an identified wetland along the western side of the property. The City has established a Wetland Zoning District Map which includes identified wetlands and a 100 foot buffer surrounding each wetland area. These areas comprise the wetland zoning district. The Code requires applicants to obtain a wetland alteration permit for any development. Development is defined as: of anystructure,the extraction,clearingor other The construction,installation or alterationn, alternation of land or terrestrial or aquatic vegetation or the course,current or cross-section of any water body or watercourse of the subdivision of land into parcels pursuant to Title 1200 of the Municipal Code. The Code also states a permit is required for the following types of activities in the wetland zoning district (i.e. identified wetlands and the 100 foot buffer area): • Digging, dredging, filling, draining or in any way altering or removing any material from a wetland • Alteration of vegetation within the wetland or the destruction of vegetation within the wetland zoning district, except to abate a public nuisance • Construction, alteration or removal of any structure • Altering of any embankment or ponding area or the changing of the flow of water or ponding capacity • Disposing of waste materials, including but not limited to demolition debris and yard waste • Installation or maintenance of essential services(gas, electrical, steam or water transmission or distribution systems, collection, communication, supply or disposal systems by public utilities, municipal or other governmental agencies but not including buildings) •