Laserfiche WebLink
Goals,Objectives, and Policies <br /> • Restoration Objective 3:Encourage restoration by limiting impacts on properties that <br /> are not being restored, such as ensuring buffers are not increased due to the <br /> restoration. <br /> • Land Use Objective:Allow for a mix of land uses including agriculture, recreation, <br /> habitat restoration or conservation, infrastructure and limited residential <br /> development. <br /> • Public Access and Recreation Objective:Increase passive recreation opportunities in <br /> the Marshland Subarea. <br /> • Citizen Involvement and Property Owner Coordination Objective:Continue to <br /> provide information and offer opportunities for public comment and property owner <br /> participation in project-level environmental studies and design alternatives for <br /> restoration and recreation proposals. <br /> • Implementation and Interagency Coordination Objective:Actively seek federal, state, <br /> non-profit, and other funding sources to implement cost-effective restoration and <br /> recreation designs. <br /> 4.1.3 Policies <br /> 4.1.3.1 Restoration Policies <br /> 1. Promote the increase of tidal wetlands, freshwater wetlands, and stream habitats on <br /> public properties, utility properties where consistent with utility function and <br /> maintenance, and private properties supported by willing property owners. <br /> 2. Provide "off-channel" areas and river edge habitats for young salmon to go during <br /> floods. <br /> 3. Create tidally-influenced shallow water habitat areas that have gently sloping <br /> shorelines, naturally meandering channels, woody debris structures, and small natural <br /> substrates that support native emergent marsh vegetation. <br /> 4. Increase the amount of native trees and shrubs along the shoreline of the mainstem <br /> river, created marsh habitats, streams, and ditches. <br /> 5. Reconnect Wood Creek to the Snohomish River. <br /> 6. Support a new Marshland Drainage District pump station that is fish friendly. <br /> 7. Support restoration designs that could result in mitigation opportunities for floodplain <br /> development and result in lowering of flood insurance rates. <br /> 8. Establish baseline environmental conditions such as existing levels of flood protection <br /> and groundwater levels. Ensure that property owners outside of restoration areas <br /> Draft Subarea Plan June 2009 <br /> Everett Marshland 52 070346-01 <br />