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"Wetlands,forested" means a regulated wetland with at least thirty percent of the surface area covered by woody vegetation greater than twenty feet in height. Wetlands of High Conservation Value "Wetlands, isolated" means those wetlands which: 1. Are outside of and not contiguous to any one hundred year floodplain or riparian corridor of a lake, river,or stream; and 2. Have no contiguous hydric soil or surface water connection between the wetland and another surface water body. "Wetlands, riparian" means those wetlands that generally occur within a riparian corridor that is contiguous to or have a surface hydrologic connection with a stream.Wetlands formed by hillside seeps that are not hydrologically affected by water in a nearby stream are not riparian wetlands. However, wetlands on a hillside may be riparian wetlands if adjacent to a stream that flows down the hillside. "Wetlands,scrub-shrub" means a regulated wetland that does not qualify as a forested wetland with at least thirty percent of its surface area covered by woody vegetation less than twenty feet in height as the uppermost strata. "Wetland mitigation bank" means a site 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 valuable site.Such consolidation encourages greater diversity of habitat and wetland functions. It also helps create more sustainable systems. Banks provide a greater likelihood of success over permittee-responsible mitigation projects, since the banks are up and running before unavoidable damage occurs to a wetland(s)at another site. Section 38. Section 30 of Ordinance 1671-89, as amended (Zoning, Floodplain Overlay Districts and Regulations, EMC 19.30.045), is amended as follows: 19.30.045 Biological assessments. . •- e' - - • - . - - e - . !e -Chapter 19.37.190 of this title requires that a biological assessment be completed to determine the impacts of proposed development to endangered species and mitigation requirements. - • - . - - - •- • - - -- . - '• - - - No. 2011 1,the biological assessment must be prepared consistent with the standards in the PDIs and approved by the planning director per Section 19.37.190. Section 39. Section 30 of Ordinance 1671-89, as amended (Zoning, Floodplain Overlay Districts and Regulations, EMC 19.30.080),is amended as follows: 19.30.080 Variances. EMC Title 19.37 (Critical Areas) Page 81