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Chapter 19.04 EMC, Definitions Page 44 of 55 <br />The Everett Municipal Code is current through Ordinance 4031-24, passed May 22, 2024. <br />“Pond” means an area permanently inundated by water in excess of six feet deep and less than <br />twenty acres and larger than two thousand five hundred square feet in area as measured at the <br />ordinary high water mark. <br />“Protected area” means lands that lie within the boundaries of the floodway and riparian <br />corridor. <br />“Reasonable use” or “reasonable economic use” means a legal concept that has been <br />articulated by federal and state courts in regulatory takings cases. <br />“Restoration” means the return of a stream or wetland, or terrestrial ecosystem, to a state in <br />which its functions and values significantly approach its unaltered state. <br />“Riparian corridor” means a perennial, intermittent, ephemeral stream or swale including its <br />channel bottom, lower and upper banks, and area beyond the top of the upper bank which <br />influences the stream through shading and organic matter input, and is influenced by the <br />presence of water, particularly in regard to plant composition. The riparian corridor is the <br />transitional area between aquatic and upland ecosystems and does not necessarily include the <br />entire floodplain of a stream. <br />“Salmonid” means a member of the fish family Salmonidae. In the city these include Chinook, <br />coho, chum, sockeye and pink salmon; cutthroat, brook, brown, rainbow and steelhead trout; <br />and Dolly Varden, kokanee and char. <br />“Seismic hazard areas” means those areas of the city subject to severe risk of earthquake <br />damage as a result of seismically induced ground shaking, settlement, or soil liquefaction. <br />These conditions occur in areas underlain by cohesionless soils of low density sometimes in <br />association with a shallow ground water table. <br />“Significant biological areas” means the following areas of the city: <br />1. Plant associations of infrequent occurrence; <br />2. Commercial and recreational shellfish areas; <br />3. Kelp and eelgrass beds; <br />4. Herring, sand lance, and smelt spawning areas; <br />5. State natural area preserves and natural resource conservation areas; and