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"Lake" means a natural or artificially created permanent body of water with an average depth of six feet or greater and an area larger than twenty acres, as measured at the ordinary high water mark. "Land Use impacts, high" means commercial, industrial, institutional, retail sales, high-intensity recreation (golf courses, ball fields), and residential uses with a density of more than one dwelling unit per acre and other similar uses. "Land Use impacts, low" means low-intensity open space (such as passive recreation and natural resources preservation)and unpaved trails and other similar uses. "Land Use impacts, moderate" means residential uses with a density of one unit per acre or less, moderate-intensity open space(parks),and paved trails and other similar uses. "Landslide" means episodic downslope movement of a mass of soil or rock that includes but is not limited to rock falls, slumps, mudflows,earth flows, and avalanches. "Landslide hazard areas" means those areas of the city subject to a risk of landslide based on a combination of geologic,topographic, and hydrologic factors. "Low impact development(LID)" means a stormwater management strategy that emphasizes conservation and the use of existing natural site features integrated with distributed, small-scale stormwater controls to more closely mimic natural hydrologic patterns in developed settings. "Marsh" means an area permanently inundated by water less than six feet deep and occupied predominantly by an emergent wetland vegetation community. "Mitigation" means avoiding, minimizing, or compensating for adverse impacts and includes the use of any or all of the following actions: 1. Avoiding the impact altogether by not taking a certain action or parts of an action; 2. Minimizing impacts by limiting the degree or magnitude of the action and its implementation, by using appropriate technology,or by taking affirmative steps to avoid or reduce impacts; 3. Rectifying the impact by repairing, rehabilitating or restoring the affected critical area; 4. Reducing or eliminating the impact over time by preservation or maintenance operations during the life of the development proposal; 5. Compensating for the impact by replacing or enhancing substitute critical areas; 6. Monitoring the required mitigation area and taking remedial action when necessary. "Monitoring" means the collection and analysis of data by various methods for the purposes of understanding and documenting changes in natural systems and features,and including gathering baseline data, evaluating the impacts of development proposals on the biological, hydrologic and geologic elements of such systems,and assessing the performance of required mitigation measures. "Native vegetation" means vegetation on a site or plant species which are indigenous to the area in question;or if the site has been cleared,species of a size and type that were on the site on the effective EMC Title 19.37 (Critical Areas) Page 76