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EVERETT 2044 <br />URBAN FORM ELEMENT <br />PROPOSED GOALS/POLICIES/ACTIONS <br />Everett 2044 <br />Planning our future together <br />including economic impacts, pollutant reduction potential, carbon sequestration and the <br />reduction of stormwater runoff. <br />UF-46 Ensure that the city achieves no -net -loss of ecological functions over time. <br />UF-47 <br />UF-48 <br />UF-49 <br />UF-50 <br />UF-51 <br />UF-52 <br />UF-53 <br />UF-54 <br />UF-55 <br />UF-56 <br />UF-57 <br />Preserve, enhance, and connect a network of habitat areas and corridors, creeks, shorelines, <br />parks, and tree canopy. Where possible, provide for public access in critical areas and their <br />buffers when these activities provide valuable educational or recreational opportunity and can <br />be designed in a manner that results in no net Toss of functions and values. <br />Use the best available science for managing critical areas and natural resources . <br />Designate, classify, and regulate protection of the following types of critical areas, consistent <br />with state law and state agency rules: fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas, wetlands, <br />frequently flooded areas, and geologically hazardous areas. <br />Maintain, and regularly update when new information becomes available, critical area maps <br />providing general information regarding the location and classification of critical areas in the <br />city. <br />Development proposals that may impact critical areas or their buffers must include a critical <br />area analysis, report, and impact mitigation plan, prepared by a qualified professional. <br />Adopt building codes, construction standards, zoning requirements, inspection, monitoring, <br />and enforcement procedures to protect life, property and critical areas functions and values. <br />Maintain a policy and regulatory approach that mandates an overall no net loss in functions, <br />values, or area for aquatic resource critical areas. Use the Washington State definition of <br />mitigation including a mitigation sequencing approach: avoid, minimize, rectify, reduce over <br />time, and compensate for unavoidable impacts. <br />Prohibit alteration of Category I wetlands; discourage alteration of Category II wetlands; and <br />where wetland alteration is allowed, require that the functions and values of the wetlands that <br />are modified be replaced and enhanced, ideally within the same drainage basin. <br />Allow clearing, grading and land alteration on sites containing or abutting critical areas only for <br />approved development proposals and establish seasonal limitations to protect and maintain <br />critical area functions and values. Cleared and/or graded areas should be stabilized and <br />revegetated as soon after construction as practicable, and on slopes, immediately after <br />construction. <br />Remove non-native invasive plants and noxious weeds from critical areas on City owned and <br />maintained property and encourage removal of non-native invasive plant species from critical <br />areas on private property to protect native species. <br />Protect and restore proposed, threatened, or endangered species and their habitat. Require <br />preparation of biological assessments to assess potential impacts of development on listed <br />species and require preparation of habitat management plans when development proposals <br />would result in impacts to fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas. <br />11/15/2024 <br />URBAN FORM ELEMENT <br />PROPOSED GOALS/POLICIES/ACTIONS <br />Page 5 <br />