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Chapter 19.04 EMC, Definitions Page 42 of 55 <br />The Everett Municipal Code is current through Ordinance 4031-24, passed May 22, 2024. <br />“Lake” means a natural or artificially created permanent body of water with an average depth of <br />six feet or greater and an area larger than twenty acres, as measured at the ordinary high water <br />mark. <br />“Land use impacts, high” means commercial, industrial, institutional, retail sales, high-intensity <br />recreation (golf courses, ball fields), and residential uses with a density of more than one <br />dwelling unit per acre and other similar uses. <br />“Land use impacts, low” means low-intensity open space (such as passive recreation and <br />natural resources preservation) and unpaved trails and other similar uses. <br />“Land use impacts, moderate” means residential uses with a density of one unit per acre or less, <br />moderate-intensity open space (parks), and paved trails and other similar uses. <br />“Landslide” means episodic downslope movement of a mass of soil or rock that includes but is <br />not limited to rock falls, slumps, mudflows, earth flows, and avalanches. <br />“Landslide hazard areas” means those areas of the city subject to a risk of landslide based on a <br />combination of geologic, topographic, and hydrologic factors. <br />“Low impact development (LID)” means a stormwater management strategy that emphasizes <br />conservation and the use of existing natural site features integrated with distributed, <br />small-scale stormwater controls to more closely mimic natural hydrologic patterns in developed <br />settings. <br />“Marsh” means an area permanently inundated by water less than six feet deep and occupied <br />predominantly by an emergent wetland vegetation community. <br />“Mitigation” means avoiding, minimizing, or compensating for adverse impacts and includes the <br />use of any or all of the following actions: <br />1. Avoiding the impact altogether by not taking a certain action or parts of an action; <br />2. Minimizing impacts by limiting the degree or magnitude of the action and its <br />implementation, by using appropriate technology, or by taking affirmative steps to avoid or <br />reduce impacts; <br />3. Rectifying the impact by repairing, rehabilitating or restoring the affected critical area;