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Wetland Credit Zoning Amendment <br />May 7, 1998 <br />Page 2 <br />List of Exhibits <br />A - Draft Amendment <br />B - Subdivision Code: Definitions of "Dry Buildable Land" and "Minimum Lot Area" <br />C - Subdivision Code: Section 11.31, Subd. 3 "Lot Area, Minimum" <br />D - Zoning Code: Floodplain and Wetlands Management: Section 10.55, Subd. 15: "Land <br />Development and Platting: A. Minimum Lot Area Requirements" <br />E - Section 10.55: Definitions of "Flood Fringe", "Floodplain" and "Floodway"; and <br />Definitions of "Floodway District", "Flood Fringe District" and "General Floodplain <br />District". <br />F - Zoning Code: Definition of "Lot Area" <br />G - Sections 31.840 and 31.841 of 1970 Wetland Ordinance #125 <br />H - Discussion of Related Code Issues <br />Authorizing Code Section <br />The current authority for granting wetland credit is in the Floodplain and Wetlands Management <br />ordinance, adopted as Ordinance #213 in 1979 and recodified in 1984 as Section 10.55, Subdivision <br />15 (Exhibit D). However, similar language granting such a credit is found in Orono's 1970 wetland <br />ordinance, Ordinance #125 (Exhibit G). <br />Current Wetland Credit Provisions <br />The provisions regarding use of the wetland credit are in Section 10.55, Subd. 15 (A)(3), which <br />limits the credit as follows: <br />limited to "residential properties served by municipal sanitar>’ sewer" <br />(staff interprets this to mean properties which have been assessed for and <br />provided with sewer; inclusion in the MUSA does not necessarily mean a <br />property is served by sewer; a large property assessed for one sewer unit <br />is not necessarily 'served by sewer' to accomodate a subdivision unless the <br />City chooses to grant additional units) <br />limits it to credit for Flood Fringe lands, which include: <br />a. The area between the OHWL and the 100-year flood elevation on all <br />lakes, ponds and streams (for Lake Minnetonka the flood fringe would <br />be all areas between the 929.4' and 931.5' contours); and <br />All designated sheet flow areas, intermittent streams, and ponding <br />areas; and <br />All lands containing soil types classified as wetlands soils, whether <br />or not there is water standing on them at any given time. <br />b. <br />c. <br />t ^