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<br />other publicly owned property or facility. <br /> <br />RECREATIONAL USE. Golf courses, tennis courts, driving ranges, archery ranges, picnic <br />grounds, boat-launch ramps, swimming areas, parks, wildlife and nature preserves, game farms, fish <br />hatcheries, shooting preserves, target ranges, trap and skeet ranges, hunting and fishing areas, hiking, <br />bicycling and horseback riding trails. <br /> <br />RECREATIONAL VEHICLES. A mobile vehicle, including boats, used for recreational <br />purposes capable of being towed or being self-propelJed. <br /> <br />RESIDENTIAL FACILITY. A state-licensed residential facility, defmed by M.S. Chapter 462, as <br />amended, serving six or fewer persons, in a single-family residential district and no more than 16 <br />persons in a multiple-family residential district. <br /> <br />RIGHT-OF-WAY. A street, alley or easement permanently established for the passage of persons <br />and vehicles, including the traveled surface of lands adjacent that are formally dedicated to that usage. <br /> <br />SEMIPUBLIC USE. The use of land by a private, nonprofit organization to provide a public <br />service that is ordinarily open to some persons outside the regular constituency of the organization. <br /> <br />SETBACK. The minimum horizontal distance between a lot line and a building line or use. <br />SEWER SYSTEM. Pipelines or conduits, pumping stations, forcemain, and all other construction <br />devices, appliances or appurtenances used for conducting sewage or industrial waste or other wastes to <br />a point of ultimate disposal. <br /> <br />SHORE IMPACT ZONE. Land located between the ordinary high water level ofa public water <br />and a line parallel to it at a setback of 50 percent of the structure setback. <br /> <br />SIGN. See Chapter 152 of this code of ordinances. <br /> <br />SIGNIFICANT HISTORIC SITE. Any archaeological site, standing structure or other property <br />that meets the criteria for eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places or is listed in the State <br />Register of Historic Sites, or is determined to be an unplatted cemetery that falls under the provisions <br />of M.S. ~ 307.08, as amended. A historic site meets these criteria if it is presently listed on either <br />register or if it is determined to meet the qualifications for listing after review by the Minnesota State <br />Archaeologist or the Director of the Minnesota Historical Society. AlJ unplatted cemeteries are <br />automaticalJy considered to be SIGNIFICANT HISTORIC SITES, <br /> <br />STEEP SLOPE. Land where agricultural activity or development is either not recommended or <br />described as poorly suited due to slope steepness and the site's soil characteristics, as mapped and <br />described in available county soil surveys or other technical reports, unless appropriate design and <br />construction techniques and farming practices are used in accordance with the provisions of this <br />chapter. Where specific information is not available, STEEP SLOPES are land having average slopes <br />over 12%, as measured over horizontal distances of 50 feet or more. <br /> <br />74 <br />