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Appendix ‘A’ Gem Lake Consolidated Land Use Ordinance Definitions Updated 06/17/2025 Page 5
<br />Energy Dissipation - Methods employed at pipe outlets to prevent erosion including but not limited to concrete aprons, riprap, splash
<br />guards, and gabions.
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<br />Erosion And Sediment Control Plan - A plan of BMPs or equivalent measures that includes all proposed alterations to real property
<br />and the methods to be employed before undertaking the proposed alterations to control runoff and erosion and to retain or con trol
<br />sediment on land during the period of land disturbing activities.
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<br />Essential Services - The erection, construction, alteration or maintenance of public utilities or municipal departments of underground
<br />or overhead telephone, gas, electrical, communication, water and/ or sewer. Radio and television broadcast, cellular and PCS
<br />transmission/reception support structures shall not be considered an essential service.
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<br />Essential Service Structures - Structures including, but not limited to, buildings such as telephone exchanges, substations, wells,
<br />pumping stations and elevated tanks.
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<br />Excavation - The artificial removal of soil or other earth material.
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<br />Extraordinary Management Practices or Redundant BMP - A stormwater management practice to control erosion and sedimentation
<br />and nutrient loading during and for two (2) years after construction using redundant Best Management Practices.
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<br />Family - An individual, or two or more persons each related by blood, marriage or adoption, living together as a single housekeeping
<br />unit; or a group of persons not so related, maintaining a common household and using common cooking and kitchen facilities.
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<br />Family Day Care Home - a residence or portion of a residence licensed by the Department of Human Services under chapter 9502 for
<br />no more than ten children at one time of which no more than six are under school age, and must meet Group R, Division 3 occup ancy
<br />requirements.
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<br />Fill - The deposit of soil or other earth material by artificial means.
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<br />Filtration Practice - A stormwater control that captures, temporarily stores, and routes stormwater runoff through a filter bed to improve
<br />water quality, as described in the Minnesota Stormwater Manual, 2005, and as amended.
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<br />Final Plat And Master Plan Submission - The development data re-submitted to the City after the Preliminary Plan for a project to be
<br />approved by the City. It should contain the Final Subdivision Plat and the Final Master Plan for the project with all changes and other
<br />data requested thru the Preliminary Plan procedure.
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<br />Final Stabilization - means that either:
<br />1. All soil disturbing activities at the site have been completed and a uniform (e.g., evenly distributed, without large bare ar eas)
<br />perennial vegetative cover with a density of 70% of the native background vegetative cover for the large area has been
<br />established on all unpaved areas and areas not covered by permanent structures, or equivalent permanent stabilization measures
<br />(such as the use of rip-rap, gabions, or geotextiles) have been employed; or
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<br />2. For individual lots in residential construction by either:
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<br />a. The homebuilder completing final stabilization as specified above; or
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<br />b. The homebuilder establishing temporary stabilization including perimeter controls for an individual lot prior to
<br />occupation of the home by the homeowner and informing the homeowner of the need for, and benefits of, final
<br />stabilization.
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<br />3. For construction projects on land used for agricultural purposes (e.g., pipelines across crop or range land) final stabilizat ion
<br />may be accomplished by returning the disturbed land to its preconstruction agricultural use. Areas disturbed that were not
<br />previously used for agricultural activities, such as buffer strips immediately adjacent to surface waters and drainage systems,
<br />and areas which are not being returned to their preconstruction agricultural use must meet the fi nal stabilization criteria in (1)
<br />or (2) above.
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<br />Floodplain - The area adjacent to a waterbody that is inundated during a 100 -year flood.
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<br />Floor Area - The sum of the gross horizontal areas of the several floors of a building including interior balconies, mezzanines, basements
<br />and attached accessory buildings, but not excepting that area primarily devoted to window display, storage, fitting rooms, st airs,
<br />escalators, unenclosed porches, detached accessory buildings utilized for dead storage, heating and utility rooms, inside off street parking
<br />or loading space. Measurements shall be made from outside of exterior walls.
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