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EVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN LAND USE ELEMENT 4. Wetland Preservation, Alteration and410 Mitigation. Prohibit alteration of rare and sig- 9. Innovative Project Design. Encourage nificant wetlands; discourage alteration of design solutions on properties which contain important wetlands; and where wetland environmentally sensitive areas and steep alteration is allowed, require that the functions slopes, such as planned residential develop- of the wetlands which are modified be ments, cluster housing, and other innovative replaced and enhanced. techniques, in order to protect the sensitive features of a site. 5. Avoiding Stream Impacts 1 10. Design Flexibility a) Require sufficient buffer areas adjacent to streams and ravine areas to protect the (a) Allow for deviation from water resource functions which streams provide. protection requirements when design solutions are proposed which result in either a net b) Discourage the crossing of streams with improvement in the existing functional values streets or utilities, allowing crossing only of streams, wetlands and their buffers, or when necessary for access to a property and greater protection than the standards would for important public facilities. otherwise provide. 6. Buffers (b) Allow for a modification of geologically hazardous area development standards when it a) Provide and preserve buffers adjacent to can be sufficiently demonstrated that a site can environmentally sensitive areas to adequately be safely developed without hazard to life or protect such areas from development and land property; or impact upon environmentally use impacts. sensitive areas. b) Require enhancement of vegetative buf- 11. Construction Management. Establish fers between sensitive areas and land sufficient construction management standards development to improve the functions of the to be applied both during and after buffers and wetlands, especially when buffers development which will prevent erosion, have been previously disturbed. sedimentation, siltation and damage to downhill and downstream properties. 7. Buffer Encroachment. Allow limited acti- vities in buffer areas only when such activities 12. Watershed Management. Develop and do not reduce functional values of the buffer implement strategic watershed restoration and or the resource it protects, or when necessary protection plans. to allow a reasonable use of property. 13. Wildlife Habitat Plans. Develop and 8. Buffer Width Averaging or Reduction. implement wildlife habitat management plans Allow buffer width averaging or reduction cooperatively with public and private only when it can be demonstrated that a conservation groups. reduction in buffer width will not reduce the functional values of the buffer or resource it 14. Acquisition. Evaluate methods other than protects, or when buffer enhancement will development regulations which may be adequately compensate for reduced buffer appropriate for acquiring or permanently width. protecting environmentally sensitive areas. p LU-56