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Effective 9/5/00 City of Centerville Ord. #4 Minnesota Statutes, serving six (6) or fewer persons, in a Single-Family Residential District and no more than sixteen (16) persons in a Multiple-Family Residential District. Right-of-Way - A street, alley or easement permanently established for the passage of persons and vehicles, including the traveled surface of lands adjacent that are formally dedicated to such usage. Semipublic Use - The use of land by a private, nonprofit organization to provide a public service that is ordinarily open to some persons outside the regular constituency of the organization. Setback - The minimum horizontal distance between a lot line and a building line or use. Sewer System - Pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, forcemain, and all other construction devices, appliances, or appurtenances used for conducting sewage or industrial waste or other wastes to a point of ultimate disposal. Shore Impact Zone - Land located between the ordinary high water level of a public water and a line parallel to it at a set back of fifty percent (50%) of the structure setback. Sign- Any name identification, display illustration structure or device which is publicly displayed and which is used to direct attention to a product, person, business, institution or place. Significant Historic Site - Any archaeological site, standing structure, or other property that meets the criteria for eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places or is listed in the State Register of Historic Sites, or is determined to be an unplanted cemetery that falls under the provisions of Minnesota Statutes, Section 307.08. A historic site meets these criteria if it is presently listed on either register or if it is determined to meet the qualifications for listing after review by the Minnesota State Archaeologist or the Director of the Minnesota Historical Society. All unplatted cemeteries are automatically considered to be significant historic sites. Story - That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the next floor above it, or if there is no floor above it, then the space between the floor and the ceiling next above it. Story-Half - That portion of a building under a gable, hip or gambrel roof the wall plates of which, on at least two opposite exterior walls, are not more than two feet above the floor of such story. Steep Slope - Land where agricultural activity or development is either not recommended or described as poorly suited due to slope steepness and the site's soil characteristics, as mapped and described in available county soil surveys or other technical reports, unless appropriate design and construction techniques and farming practices are used in accordance with the provision of this ordinance. Where specific information is not Page 11 of 62