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IEVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT NoShoreline Use Policies. 5) All new development should provide i landscaping according standards of the 1) Increase the availability of publicly Shoreline Master Program in order to improve accessible salt water, river front, streams and the visual quality of the Silver Lake area by lakes for recreational and/or educational I screening parking areas from view of the lake purposes. and public rights-of-way, enhancing public access easements, improving the aesthetic 2) Provide areas for implementation of the I qualities of storm drainage features, and City's Parks and Recreation Plan or the Open providing landscaping along street frontages. Space policies of the Land Use Element. I g) Conservancy-Recreation 3) Give priority to water dependent recreational uses. Definition. This environment consists of those Ilands or water areas under the jurisdiction of 4) Allow uses which promote continued the State Shoreline Management Act that are recreational benefits to the community. 111 being used or have the potential to be used for recreational purposes. h) Conservancy-Resource Protection I Purpose. To provide public access and Definition. An area relatively free of human enjoyment of our marine, lake and river shore- development. Such areas may include shore- lines. lines which have previously been disturbed by • human use but which have returned to a Criteria for Designation. Shoreline areas to be condition relatively free of human de- designated Conservancy - Recreation should velopment. I exhibit more than one of the following characteristics: Purpose. To protect, conserve and manage existing quasi-natural shoreline resources. I • Public ownership. • Designated for recreational use in the Criteria for Designation. Shoreline areas to be Parks and Recreation Plan or as open space designated Conservancy -Resource Protection by the Open Space policies of the Land Use should exhibit more than one of the following Element. characteristics: I • Shoreline areas that allow some public • Areas containing physical constraints that access to the water. preclude intensive urban shoreline I • Areas which can help fulfill present and development, such as steep slope areas future recreational needs of the community. presenting erosion and slide hazards. • Areas which do not contain biophysical • Areas where intensive development or use I limitations. would interfere with natural processes resulting in significant damage to other • Areas which are not appropriate for resources. 111) designation in another shoreline use environment. • Areas possessing aesthetic or biological qualities of such significance that extensive II LU-43