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3. Rectifying the impact by repairing, rehabilitating or restoring the affected critical area; life of the development proposal; 5. Compensating for the impact by replacing or enhancing substitute critical areas; baseline data,evaluating the impacts of development proposals on the biological, hydrologic and geologic "Native vegetation" means vegetation on a site or plant species which arc indigenous to the effective date of this title or reasonably could have been expected to have been found on the site at the time it was cleared. "Normal rainfall" means that rainfall that is at or above the mean of the accumulated rainfall record, based upon the water year, for the city as recorded at the Seattle Tacoma International Airport, or other local rainfall recording station recognized by the city. "Open water component" means water in dispersed patches covering forty to sixty percent of the wetland which have not less than six inches and not more than six feet of standing water for at least ten months of the year. of a steam, lake or pond and ascertaining where the presence and action of waters are so common and usual, and so long maintained in all years of normal rainfall as to mark upon the soil a character distinct from that of the abutting upland in respect to vegetation. In any ar a where the ordinary high water mark cannot be found, the line of mean high water shall substitute. In braided channels and alluvial fans, the ordinary high water mark or substitute shall be measured so as to include the entire stream feature. "Plant associations of infrequent occurrence" means one or more plant species on a landform type which, because of the rarity of the habitat or the species involved or both, or for other botanical or environmental reasons,do not occur frequently in Everett or Snohomish County. "Pond" means an arca permanently inundated by water in excess of six feet deep and less than twenty acres and larger than two thousand five hundred square feet in arca as measured at the ordinary high water mark. "Reasonable use" or"reasonable economic use" means a legal concept that has been articulated by federal and state courts in regulatory takings cases. "Restoration" means the return of a stream or wetland, or terrestrial ecosystem to a state in which its functions and values significantly approach its unaltered state. "Riparian corridor" means a perennial, intermittent, ephemeral stream or swale including its channel EMC Title 19.37 (Critical Areas) Page 67