Ordinance 2332-98 - Laserfiche WebLink

iv) The location of a maintenance/access road is limited to the upland side of the facility unless other wise approved by the Planning Director; and v) With the exception of buffers for Category I streams, buffer replacement is not required for facilities which meet the criteria in subsection a. and this subsection. c) Maintenance: Normal and routine maintenance of the storm water drainage or water quality control facility and required planting is permitted and shall exempt from the requirements of this Chapter. C. Standard Buffer Width Increase: The city shall require increased buffer widths as necessary to protect streams when the stream is particularly sensitive to disturbance, or the development poses unusual impacts and the increased buffer width is necessary to protect the environmentally sensitive areas described in this subsection. Circumstances which may require buffers beyond minimum requirements include, but are not limited to the following: 1. The stream reach affected by the development proposal serves as critical fish habitat for spawning or rearing as determined by the city using information from resource agencies including, but not limited to, the Washington State Departments of Fisheries or Wildlife, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and native tribes; 2. The stream or adjacent riparian corridor is used by species listed by the federal government or the state as endangered, threatened, rare, sensitive, or monitored, or provides critical or outstanding actual or potential habitat for those species, or has unusual nesting or resting sites such as heron rookeries or raptor nesting or lookout trees; 3. The land adjacent to the stream and its associated buffer is classified as a geologically hazardous or unstable area; 4. Increased buffer width is necessary to effectively include the riparian corridor of the stream; 5. A trail or utility corridor, as provided by Section 37.050, is proposed within the buffer; or 11