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<br /> <br /> <br /> Created: 2025-05-22 16:40:50 [EST] <br />(Supp. No. 36) <br /> <br />Page 18 of 198 <br />Regulatory flood protection elevation means an elevation established to control land use for the purpose of <br />limiting property damage and loss of life due to flood. The regulatory flood protection elevation is two feet above <br />the regional flood elevation established in the Flood Insurance Study prepared for Washington County, Minnesota <br />and Incorporated Areas dated February 3, 2010 or identified in the city's Stormwater Management Plan in <br />locations where the regional flood elevation has not been established in the aforementioned Flood Insurance <br />Study, plus any increase in elevation caused by encroachment on the floodplain. <br />Residential equivalency means a unit of measure representing one housing unit. <br />Residential facility means any facility licensed by the state or county, which for gain or otherwise, regularly <br />provides one or more persons with 24 hours per day care, food, lodging, training, education, supervision, <br />habilitation, rehabilitation, and treatment. Residential facilities include, but are not limited to institutions under <br />the control of the commissioner of public welfare, foster homes, halfway houses, residential treatment centers, <br />maternity shelters, group homes, residential programs, or schools for handicapped children, as defined by Minn. <br />Stat. §462, as may be amended. <br />Residential facility, small means a state-licensed residential facility serving six or fewer persons, providing 24- <br />hour care in a residential setting. Pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 462.357, this use shall be considered a permitted <br />single-family residential use. <br />Residential facility, medium means a state-licensed residential facility serving 7 to 16 persons. Pursuant to <br />Minn. Stat. § 462.357, this use shall be considered a multifamily residential use. <br />Residential zoning district is a term representing the combined areas of the urban and rural residential <br />zoning districts. <br />Retail sales means the sale of small quantities of goods or materials to the ultimate consumer. <br />Riparian means located on the bank or shore of a natural watercourse, lake, or public waters. <br />Roof mounted solar energy system means a solar energy system that is structurally mounted to the roof of a <br />structure. These systems are generally affixed with a racking system and may be flush or angled. <br />Setback line means the required minimum horizontal distance between a building or structure, and the <br />related front, rear, or side property line. <br />Sexually oriented business means adult bookstores; adult motion picture sales, rentals and presentation; <br />adult massage parlors adult steam rooms and baths, adult companionship establishments; adult rap/conversation <br />parlors; adult cabarets; adult novelty businesses; adult motion picture arcades; and all commercial enterprises that <br />produce, distribute, sell, or promote goods and/or services that are comprised, totally or in part, of any of the <br />following: <br />(1) Materials depicting human sexual activity; <br />(2) Sexually oriented toys or devices (except birth control devices); <br />(3) Services or entertainment performed by persons in public or private while not wearing clothing which <br />covers the genitalia and female breast below a point above the top of the areola; <br />(4) The touching or fondling of human genitals, pubic region, buttocks, or female breast in public; <br />(5) Clearly depicted human genitals in a state of sexual stimulation, arousal, or tumescence; <br />(6) Use of animal or human ejaculation, sodomy, oral copulation, coitus or masturbation; <br />(7) Actual or simulated sexual intercourse, oral copulation, anal intercourse, oral-anal copulation, <br />bestiality, direct physical stimulation of unclothed genitals, flagellation or torture in the context of a <br />sexual relationship, or the use of excretory functions in the context of a sexual relationship, and any of