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. 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. Sewage Treatment System - A septic tank and soil absorption system or other individual or cluster type sewage treatment system but only as described and regulated by the City's land use regulation. 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. Shoreland - Land located within the following distances from public waters: one thousand (1,000) feet from the ordinary high water level of a lake, pond, or flowage; and three hundred (300) feet from a river or stream, or the landward extent of a flood plain designated by ordinance on a river or stream, which ever is greater. The limits of shorelands may be reduced whenever the waters involved are bounded by topographic divides, which extend landward from the waters for lesser distances and when approved by the Commissioner. 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. Page II of65 1-