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Stream <br />Standard Buffer: <br />Standard Buffer: Unvegetated; <br />Classification <br />Intact Native Vegetation <br />Sparsely Vegetated; or <br />(Type) <br />Vegetated with Invasive Species <br />Type S <br />Buffer determined by <br />Buffer determined by requirements <br />requirements of City of <br />of City of Everett Shoreline Master <br />Everett Shoreline Master <br />Program (SMP) <br />Program (SMP) <br />Type F <br />100 feet <br />150 feet <br />Type Np <br />50 feet <br />75 feet <br />Type Ns <br />50 feet <br />75 feet <br />4. To maintain the integrity of the buffer, buildings and other structures shall be set back a <br />minimum of ten (10) feet from the edges of all stream buffer boundaries. <br />B. Standard Buffer Width Increase. The city shall require increased buffer widths as <br />necessary to protect streams when the stream is particularly sensitive to disturbance, or the <br />development poses unusual impacts and the increased buffer width is necessary to protect <br />the critical areas described in this subsection. Circumstances which may require buffers <br />beyond minimum requirements include, but are not limited to, the following: <br />1. When the minimum buffer for a stream extends into an area with a slope of greater than <br />twenty-five percent, the buffer shall be the greater of: <br />a. The minimum buffer for that particular stream; or <br />b. Twenty-five feet beyond the point where the slope becomes twenty-five percent or <br />less. <br />2. The stream reach affected by the development proposal serves as critical fish habitat for <br />spawning or rearing as determined by the city using information from resource agencies <br />including, but not limited to, the Washington State Departments of Fish and Wildlife, <br />U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and native tribes; <br />3. The stream or adjacent riparian corridor is used by species listed by the federal <br />government or the state as endangered, threatened, rare, sensitive, or monitored, or <br />provides critical or outstanding actual or potential habitat for those species, or has <br />unusual nesting or resting sites such as heron rookeries or raptor nesting or lookout <br />trees; <br />4. The land adjacent to the stream and its associated buffer is classified as a geologically <br />hazardous or unstable area; <br />5. Increased buffer width is necessary to effectively include the riparian corridor of the <br />stream; <br />C. Standard Stream Buffer Width Reduction with Enhancement. The planning director may, <br />using the review process as described in EMC Title 15, Local Project Review Procedures, <br />41 <br />