(1) Damaged or Diseased Trees” means trees that have split trunks; broken tops; heart rot; insect or fungus problems that will lead to imminent death; undercut root systems that put the tree in imminent danger of falling; lean as a result of root failure that puts the tree in imminent danger of falling; or any other condition that puts the tree in imminent danger of being uprooted or falling into or along a watercourse or on to a structure.
(2) “Federal Emergency Management Agency” or “FEMA” means the agency with overall responsibility for administering the National Flood Insurance Program.
(3) “Impervious cover” means any surface that cannot effectively absorb or infiltrate water. This may include roads, roads, parking lots, rooftops, sidewalks and other areas not covered by vegetation.
(4) “Natural succession” means a gradual and continuous replacement of one kind of plant and animal group by a more complex group. The plants and animals present in the initial group modify the environment though their life activities thereby making it unfavorable for themselves. They are gradually replaced by a different group of plants and animals better adapted to the new environment.
(5) Noxious weed” means any plant species defined by the Ohio Department of Agriculture as a “noxious weed” and listed as such by the Department. For the purposes of this ordinance, the most recent version of this list at the time of application of this regulation shall prevail.
(6) “100-Year floodplain” means any land susceptible to being inundated by water from a base flood. The base flood is the flood that has a one percent or greater chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. For the purposes of this ordinance, the 100-year floodplain shall be defined by FEMA or a site-specific floodplain delineation in conformance with standard engineering practices and approved by the City.
(7) “Ordinary high water mark” means the point of the bank or shore to which the presence and action of surface water is so continuous as to leave a district marked by erosion, destruction or prevention of woody terrestrial vegetation, predominance of aquatic vegetation or other easily recognized characteristic. The ordinary high water mark defines the bed of a watercourse.
(8) "Riparian setback area” means a naturally vegetated area located adjacent to watercourses that, if appropriately sized, stabilizes banks, limits erosion, reduces flood size flows and/or filters and settles out runoff pollutants, or performs other functions consistent with the purposes of this regulation.
(9) "Riparian setback” means those areas of the City defined by the criteria set forth in Section 1157.01(c).
(10) “Qualified forester” means any forester employed by the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, Division of Forestry or any person attaining the credential of Certified Forester as conferred by the Society of American Foresters.
(11) “Watercourse” means any natural, perennial or intermittent, public stream, river or brook ( but not an ephemeral stream) with a defined bed and bank that is contained within, flows through, or borders the City.
a. “Intermittent stream” means a natural watercourse that may have some water in pools but where surface flows are non-existent or interstitial for periods of one week or more during typical summer months.
b. “Perennial stream” means a natural watercourse that contains water throughout the year except possibly during periods of extreme drought.
(12) “Wetland” means those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions, including swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas.
a. “Category 2 Wetland” means a wetland classified by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency as Category 2 wetland under OAC3745-1-54(C)(2), in accordance with generally accepted wetland functional assessment methods acceptable to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Ohio EPA.
b. “Category 3 Wetland” means a wetland classified by the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency as Category 3 wetland under OAC3745-1-54(C)(3), in accordance with generally accepted wetland functional assessment methods acceptable to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Ohio EPA.
(13) "Wetland setback” means those areas of the City defined by the criteria set forth in Section 1157.02(c).
(Ord. 2000-143. Passed 6-26-00; Ord. 2001-44. Passed 3-12-01.)