§ 24.30.005. General purposes.

The purposes of this chapter are to:

A.

Achieve no net loss of wetlands and minimize adverse impacts.

B.

Maintain wetland and buffer functions, such as, but not limited to, cleansing surface water, storing and conveying floodwater and providing fish and wildlife habitat, by avoiding or, where that is not possible, minimizing and mitigating impacts to wetlands and their buffers.

C.

Establish wetland buffers based on the wetland's functions and values, sensitivity to impacts, rarity, whether or not it is replaceable, and site conditions.

D.

Provide for uses and activities in wetlands and associated buffers that have negligible impacts on such areas and provide for other uses that must be located in wetlands or buffers in a way that will avoid or minimize potential impacts.

E.

Provide for mitigation of impacts to wetlands and their buffers.

(Ord. No. 14773, § 3(Att. B), 7-24-2012)