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G. Providing city officials with sufficient information, direction and authority to protect critical <br /> areas when evaluating public or private development proposals; and <br /> H. Implementing the policies of the Growth Management Act, State Environmental Policy Act, <br /> Chapter 43.21C RCW, Chapter 20.04 of the Everett Municipal Code, the city's comprehensive <br /> plan, and all updates and amendments, functional plans and other land use policies formally <br /> adopted or accepted by the city. (Ord. 2909-06 § 2, 2006) <br /> Is hereby amended to read as follows: <br /> Purpose. <br /> Erosion, flood, landslide, and seismic hazard areas, streams, wetlands, protective buffers, and <br /> wildlife habitat areas constitute critical areas that are of special concern to the city. The purpose <br /> of this chapter is to designate, classify and protect the critical areas of the Everett community by <br /> establishing standards for development and use of properties which contain or adjoin critical <br /> areas and thus protect the public health, safety, and welfare by: <br /> A. Preserving, protecting, and restoring critical areas by regulating development within such <br /> areas and their buffers; <br /> B. Mitigating unavoidable adverse impacts by regulating alterations when protection cannot be <br /> required; <br /> C. Protecting the public from personal injury, loss of life or property damage due to flooding, <br /> erosion, landslides, seismic events, or soil subsidence; <br /> D. Avoiding publicly financed expenditures to correct misuses of critical areas, which may <br /> cause: <br /> 1. Unnecessary maintenance and replacement of public facilities, <br /> 2. Publicly funded mitigation of avoidable impacts, <br /> 3. Public costs for emergency rescue and relief operations where the causes are avoidable, or <br /> 4. Degradation of the natural environment; <br /> E. Protecting and enhancing unique, sensitive, and valuable elements of the environment, <br /> including fish and wildlife habitat; <br /> F. Alerting appraisers, assessors, owners, potential buyers or lessees to the presence of critical <br /> areas and the respective development limitations of such areas; <br /> G. Providing city officials with sufficient information, direction and authority to protect critical <br /> areas when evaluating public or private development proposals; and <br /> 3 <br />