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ORDINANCE Page 13 of 19 <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 />“Repair or maintenance” means an activity that restores the character, scope, size, and design <br />of a serviceable area, structure, or land use to its previously authorized and undamaged <br />condition. Activities that change the character, size, or scope of a project beyond the original <br />design and drain, dredge, fill, flood, or otherwise alter critical areas are not included in this <br />definition. <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. Mmeasures taken to <br />restore an altered or damaged natural feature, including: <br />(a) Active steps taken to restore damaged wetlands, streams, protected habitat, or their <br />buffers to the functioning condition that existed prior to an unauthorized alteration; and <br />(b) Actions performed to re-establish structural and functional characteristics of a <br />critical area that have been lost by alteration, past management activities, or <br />catastrophic events. <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 />damage as a result of earthquake induced ground shaking, slope failure, settlement or <br />subsidence, soil liquefaction, surface faulting, debris flows, lahars, or tsunamis. Settlement and <br />soil liquefaction conditions occur in areas underlain by cohesionless soils of low density, typically <br />in association with a shallow groundwater table. These conditions occur in areas underlain by <br />cohesionless soils of low density sometimes in association with a shallow ground water table. <br />“Service area” means The geographic area within which impacts can be mitigated at a specific <br />mitigation bank or an in-lieu fee program, as designated in its instrument. <br />“Significant biological areas” means the following areas of the city: <br />1 A. Plant associations of infrequent occurrence; <br />2. Commercial and recreational shellfish areas; <br />3. Kelp and eelgrass beds;