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Chapter 19.04 EMC, Definitions Page 40 of 55 <br />The Everett Municipal Code is current through Ordinance 4031-24, passed May 22, 2024. <br />4. Significant biological areas listed by the city; and <br />5. Lakes. <br />“Functions and values” or “functional values” means the beneficial roles served by critical areas <br />including, but not limited to, water quality protection and enhancement, fish and wildlife <br />habitat, food chain support, flood storage, conveyance and attenuation, ground water recharge <br />and discharge, erosion control, wave attenuation, protection from hazards, recreation, <br />educational opportunities, aesthetics, and slope and soil stabilization. <br />“Geologically hazardous areas” means areas susceptible to erosion, landslide, seismically <br />induced soil failure, or other geological events. <br />“Geologist” means a person who is licensed in the state of Washington under the provisions of <br />Chapter 18.220 RCW and Chapter 308-15 WAC, and who has at least one year of practical <br />experience in the Pacific Northwest. <br />“Habitat assessment” means a written report based on a site investigation process to evaluate <br />the potential presence or absence of a regulated fish or wildlife species or habitat potentially <br />affected by a development proposal, and containing an assessment of the potential impacts of <br />the proposal on any regulated species or habitat subject to these regulations. <br />“Habitat management plan” means an activity proposed by a public agency or private entity, <br />and approved by the planning director, within an area which may impact a fish and wildlife <br />habitat conservation area to preserve, protect or enhance the fish and wildlife habitat <br />conservation area. <br />“Habitats of primary association” means a critical component(s) of the habitats of federally or <br />state-listed endangered, threatened, candidate, sensitive, and priority wildlife or plant species <br />which, if altered, may reduce the likelihood that the species will maintain and reproduce over <br />the long term. Habitats of primary association include, but are not limited to, winter ranges, <br />migration ranges, breeding sites, nesting sites, regular large concentrations, communal roosts, <br />roosting sites, staging areas, and “priority habitats” listed by the Washington State Department <br />of Fish and Wildlife. <br />“Habitats, priority” include: <br />1. Wetlands;