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per acre. b. Moderate impact land uses include residential uses with a density of one unit per acre or less, 5. The buffer for a wetland crnatcd, restored,or enhanced as compensation for approved wetland 6. The standard buffer widths required by this chapter presume the existence of a relatively intact Native vegetated community including native tree cover, shrub understory and ground cover. If the vegetation shall be enhanced or restored to the width required by this section.The vegetation shall 7. To maintain the integrity of the buffer, buildings and other structures shall be set back a minimum of ten feet from the edges of all wetland buffer boundaries 8. Hazard Trees in Buffer.The city may require that a hazard tree assessment be completed, and that - ._ . B. Increased Standard Wetland Buffer Width.The minimum buffer width stated in subsection A of this section shall be increased: 1. When the minimum buffer for a wetland extends into an area with a slope of greater than twenty-five percent,the buffer shall be the greater of: a. The minimum buffer for that particular wetland; or b. Twenty-five feet beyond the point where the slope becomes twenty-five percent or less for at least a horizontal distance often feet; 2. When the wetland is used by salmonids, plant and/or animal species proposed or listed by the federal government or state as endangered,threatened, rare, candidate,sensitive or monitored; or has critical or outstanding potential habitat for those species or has unusual nesting or resting sites such as heron rookeries or raptor nesting trees, and the increased buffer is necessary to protect such habitat; 3. When a habitat assessment or habitat management plan is required by Section 19.37.190 of this chapter and an increased buffer is necessary to protect critical habitat or affected species, the buffer shall be the buffer in the approved habitat assessment or habitat management plan; 48. When the adjacent land is classified as a geologically hazardous area,the buffer shall be the greater of the standard wetland buffer or the setback buffer required by Section 19.37.080 of this chapter; 54. When the standard buffer has minimal or degraded vegetative cover that cannot be improved through enhancement; or 65. When the city finds, based upon a site-specific wetland analysis,that impacts on the wetland from a proposed development can only be mitigated by a greater buffer width. C. Standard Buffer Width Reduction for Category IV Wetlands. Buffer reductions are allowed; provided, that the applicant demonstrates the proposal meets criteria in subsections C.1 through C.3 and percent or no less than twenty six feet. EMC Title 19.37 (Critical Areas) Page 32