Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)

Citation: Portland City Code ch. 14 (Land Use Code)
Jurisdiction: Portland (municipal)
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Warehousing and distribution facility. The Wetlands (outside of the Shoreland Overlay
storage of goods, wares, and merchandise in a Zone). Those areas which have two or more of the
warehouse from which distribution occurs. May following:
include wholesale use, but not retail or direct sales A. A water table at or near the surface during the
to consumers. Warehousing and distribution growing season;
facilities do not include self-storage facilities. B. Very poorly drained soils, including Sebago
mucky peat; or
Watercourse. Any natural or artificial stream, river, C. Obligate wetland vegetation.
creek, ditch, channel, swale, canal, conduit, culvert, Very poorly drained soils and obligate wetland
drain, waterway, gully, ravine, or wash in which vegetation shall be as defined and illustrated in the
water flows in a definite direction or course, either United States Department of Interior, Fish and
continuously or intermittently, or which has a Wildlife Service publication of Wetland Plants of the
definite channel, bed, and banks, and includes any State of Maine (1986).
area adjacent thereto subject to inundation by
reason of overflow or floodwater. Wind energy system. A system of components
that converts the kinetic energy of the wind into
Water‑dependent uses. Those uses that require, electrical or mechanical power. A wind energy
for their primary purpose, location on submerged system comprises all necessary components
lands or that require direct access to, or location in, including turbines, energy storage, power
coastal or inland waters and which cannot be conditioning, control systems, transmission systems
located away from these waters. Inside the (where appropriate) and structural support systems
Shoreland Overlay zone, these uses include, but are to provide