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Chapter 19.04 EMC, Definitions Page 43 of 55 <br />The Everett Municipal Code is current through Ordinance 4031-24, passed May 22, 2024. <br />4. Reducing or eliminating the impact over time by preservation or maintenance <br />operations during the life of the development proposal; <br />5. Compensating for the impact by replacing or enhancing substitute critical areas; <br />6. Monitoring the required mitigation area and taking remedial action when necessary. <br />“Monitoring” means the collection and analysis of data by various methods for the purposes of <br />understanding and documenting changes in natural systems and features, and including <br />gathering baseline data, evaluating the impacts of development proposals on the biological, <br />hydrologic and geologic elements of such systems, and assessing the performance of required <br />mitigation measures. <br />“Native vegetation” means vegetation on a site or plant species which are indigenous to the <br />area in question; or if the site has been cleared, species of a size and type that were on the site <br />on the effective date of this title or reasonably could have been expected to have been found <br />on the site at the time it was cleared. <br />“Normal rainfall” means that rainfall that is at or above the mean of the accumulated rainfall <br />record, based upon the water year, for the city as recorded at the Seattle Tacoma International <br />Airport, or other local rainfall recording station recognized by the city. <br />“Open water component” means water in dispersed patches covering forty to sixty percent of <br />the wetland which have not less than six inches and not more than six feet of standing water <br />for at least ten months of the year. <br />“Ordinary high water mark” means the mark that will be found by examining the channel bed <br />and banks of a stream, lake or pond and ascertaining where the presence and action of waters <br />are so common and usual, and so long maintained in all years of normal rainfall, as to mark <br />upon the soil a character distinct from that of the abutting upland in respect to vegetation. In <br />any area where the ordinary high water mark cannot be found, the line of mean high water <br />shall substitute. In braided channels and alluvial fans, the ordinary high water mark or <br />substitute shall be measured so as to include the entire stream feature. <br />“Plant associations of infrequent occurrence” means one or more plant species on a landform <br />type which, because of the rarity of the habitat or the species involved or both, or for other <br />botanical or environmental reasons, do not occur frequently in Everett or Snohomish County.