Ordinance 2909-06 - Laserfiche WebLink

2. Minimize impact by limiting the degree or magnitude of the action and its implementation by using appropriate technology, or by taking affirmative steps to avoid or reduce impact; 3. Rectify the impact by repairing, rehabilitating or restoring the affected critical areas; 4. Reduce or eliminate the impact over time by prevention and maintenance operations during the life of the actions; 5. Compensate for the impact by replacing, enhancing, or providing substitute wetland areas and environments; 6. Monitor the impact and take appropriate corrective measures. Where impacts cannot be avoided, the applicant shall seek to implement other appropriate mitigation actions. B. Wetland Preservation/Alteration Thresholds. 1. Category I Wetlands. All category I wetlands shall be preserved except as provided in this chapter. The planning director, using the review process as described in EMC Title 15, Local Project Review Procedures, may allow alteration of category I wetlands: a. Where alteration is allowed pursuant to Section 5 (37.050) of this chapter; or b. The alteration is to allow a public park or public recreational use, provided, that there is no feasible and reasonable alternative to making the alteration and the alteration does not act to degrade the functions of the wetland, or the alteration proposed has a reasonable likelihood of being fully mitigated; 2. Category II, III, and IV Wetlands. All category II, III, and IV wetlands shall be preserved except as provided in this chapter. The planning director, using the review process described in EMC Title 15, Local Project Review Procedures, may allow alteration of category II wetlands: a. Where alteration is allowed pursuant to Section 5 (37.050) of this chapter; or b. Where impacts cannot be avoided, and the applicant demonstrates through a mitigation sequencing analysis that reduction in the size, scope, configuration, or density of the project as proposed and all alternative designs of the project as proposed that would avoid or result in less adverse impact on a regulated wetland or its buffer, are not feasible and will not accomplish the basic purpose of the project; 3. Category I, Il, III, and IV Wetlands in the Silver Lake Watershed. When alteration of wetlands in the Silver Lake Watershed is allowed in subsections 1 and 2 above, the applicant must also demonstrate to the satisfaction of the planning director and public works director that such activities will result in an enhancement of wetlands which improves the water quality functions of the wetland, or will improve the other functions of the wetland if the water quality functions of the wetland will not be degraded. Any