Ordinance 448• CITY OF CHANHASSEN
CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO.448
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING
CHAPTER 1 OF THE CHANHASSEN CITY CODE
GENERAL PROVISIONS.
The purpose of this code amendment is to revise and update Section 1-2 of the City of
Chanhassen including:
Adding definitions that appear in the Second Generation Surface Water Management Plan,
including: Administrative Wetland Permit; City Wetland Inventory; Manage 1 Wetlands;
Manage 2 Wetlands; Manage 3 Wetlands; Minnesota Routine Assessment Method; Outstanding
Wetlands; Preserve Wetlands; WCA Agent; Wetland Conservation Act; Wetland Alteration;
and Wetland Management Activity.
• Removing terms that are no longer used or referenced in the Second Generation Surface Water
Management Plan, including: Ag/Urban wetlands; Natural wetlands; Pristine wetlands;
Utilized water body; Water body, utilized; Wetlands, ag/urban; Wetlands, natural; and
Wetlands, pristine.
A printed copy of Ordinance No. 448 is available for inspection by any person during
regular office hours at the office of the City Manager/Clerk.
PASSED, ADOPTED, AND APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION this 141h day of May,
2007, by the City Council of the City of Chanhassen.
(Published in the Chanhassen Villager on May 24, 2007)
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• CITY OF CHANHASSEN
CARVER AND HENNEPIN COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
ORDINANCE NO.448
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 1
CHANHASSEN CITY CODE, GENERAL PROVISIONS
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHANHASSEN, MINNESOTA ORDAINS:
Section 1. The following terms within Section 1-2 of the City Code, City of Chanhassen,
Minnesota and their definitions, are hereby repealed:
Ag/Urban wetlands.
Natural wetlands.
Pristine wetlands.
Utilized water body.
• Water body, utilized.
Wetlands, ag/urban.
Wetlands, natural.
Wetlands, pristine.
Section 2. Section 1-2 of the City Code, City of Chanhassen, Minnesota, is hereby amended to
include the following terms and their definitions:
Administrative Wetland Permit means authorization to perform an activity that is classified as a
Wetland Management Activity. Securing an Administrative Wetland Permit does not exempt the
permittee from obtaining any and all other necessary permits (e.g., United States Army Corps of
Engineers, Minnesota Pollution Control Agency). (20)
City Wetland Inventory means the official City Wetland Inventory Map depicting the
approximate location and extent of wetlands within Chanhassen. A copy of this map shall be
maintained on the City's GIS database, with both hard and electronic copies being made
available for public review upon request. (20)
Manage I wetlands means high -quality wetlands that should be protected from development and
• other pressures of increased use, including indirect effects of development. Maintaining natural
buffers will help to retain the significant function these wetlands provide. In the event that
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impacts to these wetlands cannot be avoided, replacement ratios for mitigation should exceed the
state -required minimums. (20)
Manage 2 wetlands means wetlands that provide medium functional levels and the wetland
extent should be maintained. These wetlands often provide optimal restoration opportunity. (20)
Manage 3 wetlands means wetlands that have been substantially disturbed and have the lowest
functions and values. (20)
Minnesota Routine Assessment Method (or MnRAM) means Minnesota Routine Assessment
Method for Evaluating Wetland Functions (MnRAM Version 3.0), or future versions. (20)
Outstanding wetlands means wetlands that are classified as Outstanding Resource Value Waters
by the State of Minnesota. (20)
Preserve wetlands means exceptional and highest -functioning wetlands, or those sensitive
wetlands receiving conveyed stormwater runoff that have yet retained a medium level of
vegetative diversity/integrity. These wetlands are those that should be preserved in (or improved
to) their most pristine or highest functional capacity with wide, natural buffers, in perpetuity.
(20)
WCA agent means the city staff member responsible for the administration of the Minnesota
Wetland Conservation Act. (20)
Wetland Conservation Act (or WCA) means the Wetland Conservation Act of 1991, as amended
(M.S. § 103F.612 et seq.), and the accompanying rules of the Minnesota Board of Water and Soil
Resources (Minnesota Rules Chapter 8420, as amended). (20)
Wetland alteration means draining, grading, excavating, filling, removing healthy native
vegetation, or otherwise altering or destroying a wetland. (20)
Wetland management activity means planting seed or live plant material, burning, chemically
treating, removing topsoil or utilizing other means for the sole purpose of managing native plant
communities and/or eradicating invasive, nonnative vegetation. (20)
Section 3. This ordinance shall be effective immediately upon its passage and publication.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 14`h day of May, 2007 by the City Council of the City of
Chanhassen, Minnesota
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Todd Gerhardt, City Manager
Thomas A. Furlong, M r
• (Summary Ordinance published in the Chanhassen Villager on May 24, 2007)
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Affidavit of Publication
Southwest Newspapers
State of Minnesota)
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County of Carver )
CITY OF CHANHASSEN
CARVER AND HENNEPIN
COUNTIES, MINNESOTA
SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. Laurie A. Hartmann, being duly sworn, on oath says that she is the publisher or the authorized
446 agent of the publisher of the newspapers known as the Chaska Herald and the Chanhassen Vil-
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING lager and has full knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows:
CHAPTER 1 OF THE
CHANHASSEN CITY CODE (A) These newspapers have complied with the requirements constituting qualification as a legal
GENERAL PROVISIONS. newspaper, as provided by Minnesota Statute 331 A.02, 331 A.07, and other applicable laws, as
The purpose of this code amended.
amendment is to revise and update
Section 1-2 ofthe City ofChanhassen
including: (B) The printed public notice that is attached to this Affidavit and identified as No.
Adding definitions that appear was published on the date or dates and in the newspaper stated in the attached Notice and said
in the Second Generation Surface Notice is hereby incorporated as part of this Affidavit. Said notice was cut from the columns of
Water Management Plan, including: the newspaper specified. Printed below is a copy of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both
Administrative Wetland Permit; inclusive, and is hereby acknowledged as being the kind and size of type used in the composition
City Wetland Inventory; Manage 1 and publication of the Notice:
Wetlands; Manage 2 Wetlands;
Manage 3 Wetlands; Minnesota
Routine Assessment Method; abcdefghijklmnopgrstuvwxyz
Outstanding Wetlands; Preserve
Wetlands; WCA Agent; Wetland
Conservation Act; Wetland B ,
Alteration; and Wetland y
Management Activity. Laurie A. Hartmann
Removing terms that are no
longer used or referenced in the
Second Generation Surface Water
Management Plan, including: Ag/ Subscribed and sworn before me on
Urban wetlands; Natural wetlands;
Pristine wetlands; Utilized water
body; Water body, utilized; '
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Wetlands, ag/. urban; Wetlands, thisV day of _71ZZ t _ .112007
natural; and Wetlands, pristine.
A printed copy of Ordinance `�J' ` M. RADUENZ
No. 448 is available for inspection ' C�dEN
by any person during regular office ���T"''� ��`�� - M��1��SOTA
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PASSED, ADOPTED, AND
APPROVED FOR PUBLICATION Notary Public
this 1411 day of May, 2007, by the City
Council of the City of Chanhassen.
(Published in the Chanhassen
Villager on Thursday, May 24, 2007;
No. 4887)
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