Ordinance 1847-92 - Laserfiche WebLink

entire length, with the exposed face of the sign parallel to the plane of said wall or facade. Warehouse means a building used to store merchandise, materials or commodities. Water dependent means requiring the use of surface water that would be essential to fulfill the purpose of the proposed project. Wetlands, for the purpose of inventory mapping, means lands transitional between terrestrial and aquatic systems where the water table is usually at or near the surface or the land is covered by shallow water. Wetlands must have one or more of the following three attributes: a. At least periodically, the soil supports predominantly hydrophytes; b. The substrate is predominantly undrained hydric soil ; c. The substrate is non-soil and saturated with water at some time during the growing season of each year. Wetlands include all areas waterward from the wetland edge. Where the vegetation has been removed, or substantially altered, a wetland shall be determined by the presence or evidence of hydric or organic soils. Wetland boundary means, for the purposes of the calculation of the area of the wetland, the total extent of the wetland both on and off site. Wetland class means a description of vegetation habitat based on the predominant life forms that occupy a particular layer of vegetation and possess an aerial coverage of 30% or greater of the entire wetland. The basis for these descriptive classes is derived from the "Wetlands Taxonomic Classification System of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (Cowardin, et al 1978) . Wetland, contiguous means wetland systems connected by hydric soils or a significant surface water connection. For purposes of this Ordinance, wetlands will not be considered contiguous if the only hydrologic connection is a Category I , II or II stream, or if the wetlands had historically been connected but are now separated by a legal fill or culvert which is one-hundred feet or more in length. Wetland Edge means the line delineating the outer edge of a wetland established by using the "Federal Manual for Identifying and Delineating Jurisdictional Wetlands" dated January 10 , 1989, and jointly published by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the U.S. Soil Conservation Service. Wetlands, emergent means a regulated wetland that does not qualify as a forested wetland or a scrub-shrub wetland with at least 30 percent of the surface area covered by erect, rooted, herbaceous vegetation as the uppermost vegetative strata. L,