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Final Report, March 2012. Washington State Department of Ecology Publication No. 10-06-011, or as amended. i. For properties designated "Urban Mixed-Use Industrial" in the City's Shoreline Master Program,the applicant shall use the Snohomish Estuary Wetland Integration Plan (SEWIP, 1997)and Salmon Overlay(2001)for protects that include wetland compensation. Per Table 37.4, mitigation ratios for estuarine wetlands shall be determined on a case-by-case basis. d. In no case shall the mitigation acreage be less than that which is altered. 6. When wetland compensation is allowed,the city may require that the wetland compensation be completed and functioning prior to allowing the existing wetland to be filled or altered. For category I wetlands,the city shall require the relocated wetland area to be completed and functioning prior to allowing the existing wetland to be altered. 7. The city may limit certain development activities near a wetland to specific months in order to minimize impacts on wetland functions. 8. The city may apply additional conditions or restrictions or require specific construction techniques in order to minimize impacts on wetland functions. 9. Wetland compensation shall not occur in areas having high-quality terrestrial habitat. 10. When wetland compensation is allowed, mitigation areas shall be located to preserve or achieve contiguous wildlife habitat corridors to minimize the isolation and fragmenting effects of development on habitat areas. 11. When wetland creation is proposed, all required buffers for the creation site shall be located on the proposed creation site, except where mitigation banking is used to purchase buffer credits. Properties adjacent to or abutting wetland creation projects shall not be responsible for providing any additional buffer requirements. 12. Wetland mitigation banks are sites where wetlands are restored, created,enhanced,or in exceptional circumstances, preserved, expressly for the purpose of providing compensatory mitigation in advance of authorized impacts to similar resources. Banks typically involve the consolidation of many small wetland mitigation projects into a larger, potentially more ecologically . .. - - -. - - _ _ • .. •. -• _. ter diversity of habitat and wetland function&—it permittee responsible mitigation projects, since the banks arc up and running before unavoidable damage occurs to a wetland(s) at another site. a. The city may allow wetland mitigation banking in lieu of other forms of wetland impact mitigation when the mitigation site being used for the credit allowed pursuant to this section is either a value than the wetland being altered, or where the miti_ation bank site substantially incr ases wetland functions in the watershed within which it is located. Under the wetland mitigation or enhanced wetland is successfully functioning in accordance with an approved wetland mitigation plan. The created or enhanced wetland shall have a higher wetland function rating than that being altered. In evaluating a wetland mitigation banking proposal,the planning director shall determine the amount of credit given for mitigation banking using the ratios described in subsection C.5 of this section as a guide.The amount of credit will be dependent upon the functions of the wetland described in EMC Title 15, Local Project Review Procedures, may allow wetland mitigation banking under the following circumstances: Planning Commission Resolution 19-04 Page 43 Critical Areas March 19, 2019