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Restoration and Land Use Concepts <br /> The number of salmonid smolts that the restoration areas can support can be estimated using <br /> information in A Historical Analysis of Habitat Alterations in the Snohomish River Valley, <br /> Washington, Since the Mid-19h Century:Implications for Chinook and Coho Salmon, Haas <br /> and Collins, February 2001. See FEIS amended Section 3.3 for more details. The number of <br /> salmonid smolts that can be supported by the subarea plan is shown in Table 3-5. <br /> Table 3-5 <br /> Rough Estimate of Smolts Supported by the Subarea Plan <br /> Chinook Coho-Summer Coho-Winter <br /> 36,569 40,832 99,200 <br /> 3.3.1.4 Subarea Plan Planning Implications <br /> The subarea plan would allow for a mix of land use including agriculture, recreation, habitat <br /> restoration or conservation, limited residential development and infrastructure. <br /> Completion of the subarea plan will lead to revisions in the City's Comprehensive Plan and <br /> SMP for the land in its city limits and the MUGA where the City can predesignate land use <br /> and shoreline use designations, though it would remain in the County jurisdiction until <br /> annexed. Such revisions include allowing residential uses in the rural flood fringe district, <br /> promoting passive recreation, ensuring adequate flood control protection, and anticipating <br /> future regulations for tidal restoration areas. <br /> The subarea plan proposes buffer standards for the Marshland that will achieve greater <br /> consistency with the City's 2006 CAO Update. The proposed buffers combined with <br /> coordinated restoration activities and combined with the generally low intensity land uses in <br /> the subarea are expected to result in an overall net gain in functional habitat. Recognizing <br /> adjacent property owners, existing ongoing agriculture could continue. To ensure that <br /> restoration actions do not result in larger buffers on adjacent properties, restoration actions <br /> would be required to accommodate buffers, as feasible, on the site of the restoration, with no <br /> additional buffers extending onto adjacent properties as a result of the habitat project. <br /> The subarea plan could result in future amendments to the FEMA floodplain maps and City <br /> floodplain overlay zones. Areas that are restored to tidal inundation would be reclassified to <br /> Draft Subarea Plan June 2009 <br /> Everett Marshland 46 070346-01 <br />