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minimize or compensate for project effects on the species under review.The following items should be addressed: i. Provide specific recommendations, as appropriate,to reduce or eliminate the adverse effects of the proposed activity. Potential measures include:timing restrictions for all or some of the activities; removal); best management practices, etc.; ii. Include a description of proposed monitoring of the species, its habitat,and mitigation effectiveness. the significant features present. e2. A biological assessment which meets the requirements of federal and state agencies may be accepted as meeting these requirements. 3. The HMP shall be evaluated by city, state and federal agencies with permit jurisdiction or expertise, as required by this section, and the director shall consider all comments submitted by state and federal agencies, and require necessary revisions to the HMP, if any, prior to accepting the HMP as final. 4. The director shall condition approvals of activities allowed within or adjacent to a habitat conservation area or its buffers, as necessary to minimize or mitigate any potential adverse impacts to the habitat conservation area and affected species. Mitigation measures shall be based upon the analysis, conclusions, and recommendations contained in the HMP.At a minimum, all requirements and mitigation measures necessary to avoid reducing the likelihood that the species will maintain and reproduce over the long term shall be required as permit conditions for the development proposal. protective covenant or tract as required by Section 19.37.220 of this chapter. H. Compensation for impacts within the 100-year floodplain. 1. Compensation must be provided for any effects to floodwater storage and fish habitat function within the 100-year floodplain. Indirect adverse effects of development in the floodplain (effects to stormwater, riparian vegetation, bank stability, channel migration, hyporheic zones, wetlands, etc.) must be mitigated such that equivalent or better salmon habitat protection is provided. 2. The mitigation plan shall stipulate avoidance and conservation measures, as are needed to ensure that there is no net adverse effect during any phase of the project. Outside the floodway or riparian habitat zone,the mitigation plan shall include such avoidance, minimization, restoration, conservation or compensation measures to mitigate all impact for the situation. 3. Calculation of impacts and mitigation shall be performed in accordance with Planning Director Interpretation No. 2011-1,or as amended. 4. The following priorities for mitigation of impacts to fish habitat within the 100-year floodplain shall be considered in the habitat assessment and mitigation plan,with the long term goal of improving functions and values of fish habitat in the estuary over existing conditions: a. Assignment(purchase) of equivalent mitigation credits from an established mitigation bank within the estuary. b. Creation or restoration of the functions and values of fish habitat in an area that is available to fish more frequently than the habitat being impacted; EMC Title 19.37 (Critical Areas) Page 57