Portland City Code ch. 14

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14
Parent Document: Portland City Code ch. 14
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
Original Source: https://www.portlandmaine.gov/asset/ae8cabd1-66eb-4a1c-9224-92bbca5e792f ↗

Full Text

2,321 chars

Watercourse. Any natural or artificial stream, river, Wholesale. Sale for resale, not for direct
creek, ditch, channel, swale, canal, conduit, culvert, consumption.
drain, waterway, gully, ravine, or wash in which
water flows in a definite direction or course, either Workforce housing unit for rent. A dwelling unit
continuously or intermittently, or which has a for which:
definite channel, bed, and banks, and includes any A. The rent is affordable to a household earning
area adjacent thereto subject to inundation by 80% or less than of AMI.
reason of overflow or floodwater. B. The unit is rented to a household earning 80%
or less of AMI.
Water‑dependent uses. Those uses that require, C. The requirements of (A) and (B) above are
for their primary purpose, location on submerged limited by deed restriction or other legally
lands or that require direct access to, or location in, binding agreement for the applicable length of
coastal or inland waters and which cannot be time in this ordinance.
located away from these waters.
Workforce housing unit for sale. A dwelling unit
Wetlands (outside of shoreland zones). Those for which:
areas which have two or more of the following: A. The purchase price is affordable to a household
A. A water table at or near the surface during the earning 80% or less of AMI.
growing season; B. The unit is sold to a household earning 80% or
B. Very poorly drained soils, including Sebago less of AMI.
mucky peat; or C. The requirements of (A) and (B) above are
C. Obligate wetland vegetation. limited by deed restriction or other legally
Very poorly drained soils and obligate wetland binding agreement for the applicable length of
vegetation shall be as defined and illustrated in the time in this ordinance.
United States Department of Interior, Fish and
Wildlife Service publication of Wetland Plants of the
State of Maine (1986).

Other Sections in This Document (541)

Full Text