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18.050.8 Placement and Design of Roads, Driveways, and Parking Areas. ]) Public and private roads and parking areas shall be designed to take advantage of natural vegetation and topography to achieve maximum screeningfTom view from public waters. The Public Works Director shall review all roads and parking areas to ascertain they are designed and constructed to minimize and control erosion to public waters, consistent with the field office technical guides of the Ramsey County Soil and Water Conservation District, or other applicable technical materials and best management guidelines. 2) Roads, driveways, and parking areas shall meet structure setbacks outlined in Section 18.045.2 and shall not be placed within hlufiand moœ impact zones, when other reasonable and feasible placement alternatives exist. If no alternatives exist, they may be placed within these areas, and shall be designed to minimize adverse impacts. 3) Public and private watercraft, canoe rack storage, access ramps, approach roads, and access-related parking areas may be placed within shore impact zones provided the vegetative screening and erosion control conditions of this subpart are met. F or private facilities, the grading and filling provisions of Section18.090 of this ordinance shall be met. 18.055 Design criteria for Commercial, Industrial, Public, and Semipublic Uses in Shoreland Areas. 18.055.1 Surface water-oriented commercial uses and industrial, public, or semipublic uses with similar needs to have access to and use of public waters may be located on parcels or lots with frontage on public waters. Those uses with water-oriented needs must meet impervious coverage limits, setbacks, and other zoning standards in this chapter. The uses shall also be designed to incorporate topographic and vegetative screening of parking areas and structures. 18.055.2 Uses and surface parking without water-oriented needs shall be located on lots or parcels without public waters ftontage, or, if located on lots or parcels with public waters frontage, must be set back double the normal ordinary high water level setback and shall be screened by 50% opaque or more screen ITom view from the water by vegetation or topography, assuming summer, leaf-on conditions. 18.060 Notifications to the Department of Natural Resources 18.060.1 Copies of all notices of any public hearings to consider variances, ordinance amendments, PUDs, or conditional uses affecting a MDNR designated shoreland district shall be sent to the MnDNR, Division of Waters Regional Hydrologist and postmarked at least ten days before the hearings. Notices of hearings to consider proposed subdivisions/plats shall include copies of the subdivision/plat. 18.060.2 A copy of approved amendments and subdivisions/plats, and final decisions granting variances, PUDs or conditional uses in a MDNR designated shoreland district shall be sent to the MnDNR, Division of Waters Regional Hydrologist and postmarked within ten days of final action. 16