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Chapter 19.04 EMC, Definitions Page 38 of 55 <br />The Everett Municipal Code is current through Ordinance 4031-24, passed May 22, 2024. <br />“Buffer management” means an activity proposed by a public agency, public utility, or private <br />entity, and approved by the planning director, within a buffer required by this title, that is <br />proposed to: <br />1. Reduce or eliminate a verified public safety hazard; <br />2. Maintain or enhance wildlife habitat diversity; or <br />3. Maintain or enhance the fishery or other functions of stream, wetland, or terrestrial <br />ecosystems. <br />“Buildable area” means the lot area minus undevelopable areas. <br />“Channel gradient” refers to a measurement over a representative section of at least five <br />hundred linear feet, where available, with at least ten evenly spaced measurement points along <br />the normal stream channel, but excluding unusually wide areas of negligible gradient such as <br />marshy or swampy areas, beaver ponds, and impoundments. Channel gradient may be <br />determined utilizing stream profiles plotted from United States Geological Survey topographic <br />maps (see Washington Forest Practices Board Manual, Section 23) or a more detailed survey <br />specific to the project site and/or area. <br />“Compensation” means the replacement, enhancement, or creation of an undevelopable critical <br />area equivalent in functions, values and size to those being altered or lost to development. <br />“Compensation, in-kind” means the replacement of wetlands with substitute wetlands whose <br />characteristics closely approximate those destroyed or degraded by a regulated activity. <br />“Compensation, off-site” means the replacement of wetlands away from the lot on which a <br />regulated wetland has been impacted. <br />“Compensation, on-site” means the replacement of wetlands on or adjacent to the lot on which <br />a wetland has been impacted by a regulated activity. <br />“Compensation, out-of-kind” means the replacement of wetlands with substitute wetlands <br />whose characteristics do not closely approximate those destroyed or degraded by a regulated <br />activity.