Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
Source: Official source
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Tree, storm-damaged. A tree that has been Use, nonconforming. Use of buildings, structures,
uprooted, blown down, is lying on the ground, or or land which is not allowed in the zone in which it
that remains standing and is damaged beyond the is situated, but which is allowed to remain solely
point of recovery as the result of a storm event. because it was in lawful existence at the time this
Code or subsequent amendments took effect.
Tree, street. Tree planted in the public right-of-way
and/or private roadway. Utility substation. Any sewage or water pumping
station, electric power substation, transformer
Tributary stream. A channel between defined station, telephone equipment enclosures, or other
banks created by the action of surface water, which similar structures owned or operated by a utility.
is characterized by the lack of terrestrial vegetation
or by the presence of a bed, devoid of topsoil, Vegetation. All live trees, shrubs, ground cover, and
containing waterborne deposits or exposed soil, other plants including, without limitation, trees both
parent material or bedrock; and which is connected over and under four inches in diameter, measured
hydrologically with other water bodies. Tributary at four and one‑half feet above ground level.
stream does not include rills or gullies forming
because of accelerated erosion in disturbed soils Vegetation, climate resilient northeast native.
where the natural vegetation cover has been Plants identified as native to the northeast as
removed by human activity. identified by the Northeast Regional Invasive
Species & Climate Changes (RISCC) Network or a
Upland edge of a wetland. The boundary between Maine licensed landscape architect.
upland and wetland. For purposes of a coastal
wetland, this boundary is the line formed by