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16 Revised 10/03/2019 Ordinance Language Commentary B. The use is designed to incorporate topographic and vegetative screening of parking areas and structures; C. Uses that require short-term watercraft mooring for patrons must centralize these facilities and design them to avoid obstructions of navigation and to be the minimum size necessary to meet the need; and D. Uses that depend on patrons arriving by watercraft may use signs and lighting, provided that: (1) Signs placed in or on public waters must only convey directional information or safety messages and may only be placed by a public authority or under a permit issued by the county sheriff; and (2) Signs placed within the shore impact zone are: (a) No higher than ten feet above the ground, and no greater than 32 square feet in size; and (b) If illuminated by artificial lights, the lights must be shielded or directed to prevent illumination across public waters; and (3) Other lighting may be located within the shore impact zone or over public waters if it is used to illuminate potential safety hazards and is shielded or otherwise directed to prevent direct illumination across public waters. This does not preclude use of navigational lights. 5.12 Commercial, industrial, public, and semi-public uses that are not water-dependent must be located on lots or parcels without public waters frontage, or, if located on lots or parcels with public waters frontage, must either be set back double the ordinary high water level setback or be substantially screened from view from the water by vegetation or topography, assuming summer, leaf-on conditions. 5.2 Agriculture Use Standards. 5.21 Buffers. A. The shore impact zone for parcels with permitted agricultural land uses is equal to a line parallel to and 50 feet from the ordinary high water level. B. General cultivation farming, grazing, nurseries, horticulture, truck farming, sod farming, and wild crop harvesting are permitted uses if steep slopes and shore and bluff impact zones are maintained in perennial vegetation or operated under an approved conservation plan that includes alternative riparian water quality practices consistent with the field office technical guides of the local soil and water conservation district or the Natural Resource Conservation Service, and as approved by the local soil and water conservation district. 5.22 New animal feedlots are not allowed in shoreland. Modifications or expansions to existing feedlots or resumption of old feedlots are conditional uses and must meet the following standards: A. Feedlots must be designed consistent with Minnesota Rules, Chapter 7020; 5.11.D. This provision was modified from rules for consistency with the Supreme Court decision in Reed vs Town of Gilbert regarding the first amendment and signage. 5.21. The DNR will consider a 50-foot average, 30-foot minimum buffer and language defining alternative water quality practices consistent with Minnesota Statutes, section 103F.48 as being consistent with 6120.3300, Subp. 7. Please see guidance and model language for acceptable language. 5.21.B. Optional deletion. Eliminating the option to use alternative practices instead of the required buffer will reduce nutrient runoff and improve surface water quality.