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timeframe, working with regulatory agencies to make sure impacts are fully mitigated. ILF programs are approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Washington State Department of Ecology. The City may allow compensation for unavoidable impacts to wetlands through contribution to an approved ILF program. SECTION 6: Section 19 of Ordinance 2909-06 (EMC 19.37.190), which reads in part as follows: Additional fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas requirements. A. Definitions. 1. Habitats of primary association" means a critical component(s) of the habitats of federally or state -listed endangered, threatened, candidate, sensitive, and priority wildlife or plant species which, if altered, may reduce the likelihood that the species will maintain and reproduce over the long term. Habitats of primary association include, but are not limited to: winter ranges, migration ranges, breeding sites, nesting sites, regular large concentrations, communal roosts, roosting sites, staging areas, and "priority habitats" listed by the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife. 2. Continuous vegetative corridors linking watersheds" means areas that link larger habitat blocks. The corridors can provide wildlife habitat and allow for relatively free movement of animals among larger habitat blocks that would otherwise be isolated. This allows use of habitat patches that are not themselves large enough to support sustainable breeding populations. The corridors also allow wildlife to move from a habitat area used for one activity, such as feeding, to a habitat area used for another activity, such as nesting. Significant biological areas" means the following areas of the city: a. Plant associations of infrequent occurrence; b. Commercial and recreational shellfish areas; c. Kelp and eelgrass beds; d. Herring, sand lance, and smelt spawning areas; e. State natural area preserves and natural resource conservation areas; and f. Significant biological areas of local importance: i. Maulsby Swamp, ii. Bomarc Bog, iii. Simpson site, category I wetlands, iv. Narbeck Swamp, v. Jetty Island. B. Goals and Additional Requirements. It is the goal of the city to preserve, protect and enhance fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas through sound habitat management practices. Fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas in shoreline jurisdiction are regulated by the shoreline master program. All other fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas are regulated by this chapter. I. All new development and redevelopment adjacent to fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas should consider low impact stormwater management techniques where site conditions allow as described in the Low Impact Development Technical Guidance Manual for Puget Sound, January 2005. 20