For the purpose of this chapter, the following definitions shall apply unless the context clearly indicates or requires a different meaning.
APPLICANT. Any person or group that applies for a permit to allow land disturbance activities. APPLICANT also means that person’s agents, employees and others acting under this person’s or group’s direction. The term APPLICANT also refers to the permit holder or holders and the permit holder’s agents, employees and others acting under this person’s or group’s direction.
APPROVAL. The proposed work or completed work conform to this chapter in the opinion of the city.
CITY. The administrative staff, or its agent, of the City of Mounds View.
COMMON PLAN OF DEVELOPMENT OR SALE. A contiguous area where multiple separate and distinct land disturbance activities may be taking place at different times, or on different schedules, but under one proposed plan including, but not limited to, mass site grading, utility installation, street construction and home or building construction. This item is broadly defined to include design, permit application, advertisement or physical demarcation indicating that land disturbance activities may occur.
EARTHEN MATERIAL. Any rock, natural soil or fill and/or any combination thereof.
EROSION. The wearing away of the ground surface as a result of the movement of wind, water and/or ice.
EROSION CONTROL. Methods employed to prevent erosion. Examples include soil stabilization practices, horizontal slope grading, temporary or permanent cover and construction phasing.
EXCAVATION. The mechanical removal of earthen material.
FILL. A deposit of earthen material occurring via human activity.
FINAL STABILIZATION. All soil disturbance activities on the site or common plan of development or sale have been completed, and that a uniform evenly distributed (for example, without large bare areas), perennial vegetative cover with a density of at least 70% of the cover for unpaved areas and areas not covered by permanent structures has been established, or equivalent permanent stabilization measures have been employed, and that all temporary erosion control devises are removed, including silt fence, temporary sedimentation basins and temporary standpipes. Simply sowing grass seed and/or mulch is not considered FINAL STABILIZATION. FINAL STABILIZATION of a common plan of development or sale includes completion of building or home construction along with final restoration of all yards and adjacent drainage ways and shall be in conformance with the NPDES construction general permit part IV.G.
GRADE. The vertical location of the ground surface.
GRADING. Any excavating or filling or combination thereof.
LAND DISTURBANCE ACTIVITY. Any land change that may result in soil erosion from water or wind and the movement of sediment into or upon waters or lands within the city’s jurisdiction, including construction, clearing and grubbing, grading, excavating, transporting and filling of land.
LAND DISTURBANCE PLAN. A joint storm water and erosion and sediment control plan that is a document containing the requirements of this chapter and the city’s Land Disturbance Plan and implementation requirements, that when implemented will decrease soil erosion on a parcel of land and off-site non-point pollution. It involves both temporary and permanent controls.
NPDES or NATIONAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM. A provision of the Clean Water Act, being 33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et seq., that prohibits discharge of pollutants into waters of the United States unless a special permit is issued by the EPA, a state or a tribal government.
PERMANENT CONTROLS. Erosion and/or sediment control measures installed that are not intended to be removed from the project site. Examples of such protection are swales, ponds, sediment basins, turf reinforcement mats, storm sewer systems and riprap.
PERMANENT COVER. Examples including grass, gravel, asphalt and concrete. See also the definition of FINAL STABILIZATION.
PERMIT. A written warrant or license granted for land disturbance activities.
SEDIMENT. The product of an erosion process; solid material both mineral and organic, that is in suspension, is being transported, or has been moved by water, wind or ice, and has come to rest either above or below water level.
SEDIMENTATION. The process or action of depositing sediment.
SEDIMENT CONTROL. The methods employed to prevent sediment from leaving a site. Examples of SEDIMENT CONTROL practices are silt fences, sediment traps, earth dikes, drainage swales, check dams, subsurface drains, storm drain inlet protection and temporary or permanent sedimentation basins.
SITE. Any lot or parcel of land or contiguous combination thereof, under the same ownership, where a land disturbance activity is performed or permitted.
SLOPE. An inclined ground surface the inclination of which is expressed as a ratio of horizontal distance to vertical distance.
SOIL. Naturally occurring superficial deposits overlying bedrock.
STORM WATER. Precipitation runoff, storm water runoff, snow melt runoff and any other surface runoff and drainage, as defined under Minn. Rules part 7077.0105, subpart 41b.
SWPPP. The Storm Water Pollution Prevention Plan is a document that describes a process whereby a facility thoroughly evaluates potential pollutant sources at a site and selects and implements appropriate measures designed to prevent or control the discharge of pollutants in storm water runoff.
WETLANDS. As defined in Minn. Rules part 6105.0354, Subp. 35, are those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface water or groundwater 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. WETLANDS generally include swamps, marshes, bogs and similar areas. Constructed WETLANDS designed for wastewater treatment are not waters of the state.
(Prior Code, § 1303.03) (Ord. 914, passed 04-25-2016)