Ordinance 2600-02 - Laserfiche WebLink

• Findings & Conclusions 3/1/02 Page 4 • The Snohomish Estuary Wetland Integration Plan (SEWIP) including the SEWIP Salmon Overlay. (Added consistent with Section 3 and the City's request to include the documents as part of the SMP.) (Page 2-2) add after Master Program Regulations and before Administrative Provisions. Shoreline Inventory. The following inventory information shall be considered along with more detailed site-specific studies when making regulatory decisions. The Snohomish Estuary Wetland Integration Plan (SEWIP) including the SEWIP Salmon Overlay published in February 2001. Except for specific policies adopted as regulations in Section 3.9, the SEWIP work will serve as the primary inventory information and "Best Available Science" for those areas included in the SEWIP study area. (This language has been taken from Section 3 where the City has established SEWIP and the Salmon Overlay as part of the SMP. It is added here for consistency and to clarify its role in land use decisions.) SECTION 3 (Page 3-24) 17. Public access improvements shall be designed to minimize impacts to environmentally sensitive areas, ecological functions, or ecosystem-wide processes. A biological assessment (Planning Director's Interpretation), and potentially a habitat management plan (EMC 19.37 —Environmentally Sensitive Areas). shall be required for each project in shoreline jurisdiction. The City may require that buffers be increased based upon the results of that assessment. Mitigation of impacts shall be required as appropriate. (The added language is taken from the City's response related to concerns over adverse impacts from public access. The language is simply added to clarify how documents adopted by reference have been incorporated into the SMP regulations addressing these concerns.) (Page 3-30) As stated above, these policies and regulations apply to all activities and uses in all environmental designations of the Shoreline Master Plan. Where conflict exists between any of these documents, the most protective of shoreline resources shall apply. This may mean that every parcel is not developable or fully developable as desired by a project proponent. Project proponents will be responsible for providing sufficient scientific information to document the environmental impacts and appropriate mitigation measures for their proposals. The City may deny projects that will result in significant ecological impacts that are not fully mitigated, even though the project is consistent with the use provisions of this SMP. (The additional language is required due to the multiple planning documents the City has adopted by reference and is consistent with language in regulation #1 of this section.)