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FILE #05 3074 <br />6 January 2005 <br />Page 2 of 5 <br />compatible in relation to the suitability of public waters to safely accommodate <br />these watercraft. <br />See. 78-1282. Stairways, lifts and landings. <br />Stairways and lifts are the prr'erred alternative to major topographic alterations <br />for achieving access up and down bluffs and steep sloj^cs to shore areas. Stairways, lifts <br />and landings shall be allowed in the shore .setback zone and must meet the following <br />design requirements: <br />(1) Stairways and lifts must not exceed four feet in width. <br />(2) Landings lor stairways and lifts shall not exceed 32 square feet in area. <br />(3) Canopies or roofs are not allowed on stairways, lifts, or landings. <br />(4) Stairways, lifts and landings may be cither couslrueteil above the ground <br />on posts or pilings or placed into the ground, provided they arc designed <br />and built in a manner that ensures control of soil erosion. <br />(5) Stairways, lifts and landings must be located in the most visually <br />inconspicuous poilions of lots, as viewed from the surface of the public <br />water, assuming summer, Icaf-on conditions, whenever practical. <br />(6) Facilities necessary to provide shore area access to physically handicapped <br />persons shall be allowed, provided that the dimensional and pcrfonnance <br />standards of subsections (l)--(5) of this .section arc completed in addition <br />to the requirements of the Minnesota Regulations, chapter 1340. <br />(7) A building permit .shall be obtained for con.struction of stairways, lifts and <br />landings regardless of whcUier such improvements are constructed above, <br />at or below grade. <br />Sec. 78-1286. 'I'opographic aiter>i(iuii.s/gra(liiig and filling. <br />(b.) Cirading, filling or excavating of more than ten cubic yards is prohibited within 75 <br />feet ol the ordinary high water level of the public waters enumerated in section 78-1217. <br />(irading, filling or excavating often cubic yards or less shall require city slalf review and <br />permit and be subject to other perliiieiit sections of this chapter. <br />Sec. 78-12*18. Hard cover limiiulions. <br />a) No hard cover or impervious surface shall be placed, located or constructed <br />within 75 leet of the ordinary high water level of any lake or tributary, except for <br />stairways, lifts, latidings and lockboxes as regulated elsewhere in this Code. <br />b) iietween 75 feet and 250 feet of the OllWl., there .shall be no greater than 25 <br />percent hard cover, between 250 Icct atui 500 feet ol the OHWL Iheie shall be no <br />greater than 30 percent hardcover. Hetween 500 feel and 1,000 feel of lire OllWL <br />there shall be no greater th;ui 35 percent hardcover.