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Des Moines Shoreline Master Program 3.2.7 Critical Areas Element Purpose and Intent: This is an element which provides for protection of areas designated by the City as environmentally critical areas that are physically located in the shoreline jurisdiction. Critical areas are those lands especially vulnerable to development because of fragile biophysical characteristics and/or important resource values. Critical areas within shoreline jurisdiction are governed by the Shoreline Management Act (RCW 90.58) through this Program. GOAL A. Manage designated critical areas (i.e., wetlands, bluffs and geologic hazard areas, fish and wildlife conservation areas, flood hazard areas, aquifer recharge areas, and streams) that are located within the City’s shoreline jurisdiction to protect existing ecological functions and ecosystem-wide processes and, where possible, restore degraded ecological functions and ecosystem-wide processes to ensure no net loss of ecological functions. POLICIES 1. Provide a level of protection to critical areas within the shoreline area that is at least equal to that which is provided by the City’s critical areas regulations. 2. Regulate development in a way that protects the public from damages due to flooding, landslides, subsidence, and erosion and prevents adverse impacts to ground and surface water quality, wetlands, tidelands, streams, stream corridors, and fish and wildlife habitat. 3. Integrate the full spectrum of planning and regulatory measures, including the comprehensive plan, inter-local watershed plans, and City of Des Moines critical area regulations to protect and restore critical areas within shoreline jurisdiction. 4. Pursue activities in critical areas that restore degraded ecological functions and ecosystemwide processes 3.2.7.1 Wetlands Purpose and Intent: This is a sub-element to recognize the important functions wetlands provide in the nearshore ecosystem, particularly when associated with subestuaries of streams entering Puget Sound. GOAL A. Preserve, protect and/or restore wetlands within and associated with the City’s shorelines to achieve no net loss of wetland area and wetland ecological functions. POLICIES 1. Wherever possible, the City should restore wetland functions on publicly owned lands by limiting development and removing streamside riprap that prevents maintenance of estuarine wetlands and connections with interior riparian wetlands. 2. Regulate wetlands associated with shorelines of the state in a manner that is at least as protective as those in the City’s critical areas regulations to ensure no net loss of wetland area Department of Ecology approval effective November 1, 2010 24 Adopted by City of Des Moines Ordinance No. 1502
Des Moines Shoreline Master Program and functions. Regulate development of private upland property to maintain sufficient volumes of surface and subsurface drainage into wetland areas associated with the shoreline, to sustain existing vegetation and wildlife habitat and ecological functions consistent with the King County, Washington “Surface Water Design Manual,” and RCW 90.58. 3.2.7.2 Bluffs and Geologically Hazardous Areas Purpose and Intent: This is a sub-element to recognize the important ecological functions that marine bluffs provide on Puget Sound shorelines. This sub-element also addresses the need to protect human life and property from incompatible development in or near geologically hazardous areas such as bluffs, erosion and landslide hazard areas. GOAL A. Avoid foreseeable risk from geological hazards to people and improvements, recognizing that erosion of marine bluffs is a natural dynamic of shoreline ecological processes. POLICIES 1. Apply regulations to geologically hazardous areas within the shoreline that are at least as protective as those in the City’s critical areas regulations to protect against increased threat of geological hazard to adjacent properties and adverse impacts to other critical areas. 2. New development or the creation of new lots that would cause foreseeable risk from geological conditions during the life of the development should not be allowed. 3. New development that would require structural shoreline stabilization over the life of the development should not be allowed. Exceptions may be made for the limited instances where stabilization is necessary to protect allowed uses where no alternative locations or designs are available and no net loss of ecological functions will result. 3.2.7.3 Nearshore Habitats (Fish and Wildlife Habitat Conservation Areas) Purpose and Intent: This is a sub-element to recognize that the shoreline and nearshore environment provide important habitat functions. Eelgrass and kelp beds and forage fish spawning areas are of particular importance in maintaining habitat functions and are considered “critical saltwater habitats.” These areas and others are designated by Des Moines as fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas. GOAL A. Protect existing nearshore habitats and restore degraded nearshore habitats. These nearshore habitats require a higher level of protection due to the important ecological functions they provide. As ecological functions of marine shorelands can affect the viability of critical saltwater habitats, effective protection and restoration of critical habitats should integrate management of shorelands and submerged areas. POLICIES 1. The City, in conjunction with state resource agencies, affected Indian tribes, should identify and classify saltwater habitats, seasonal ranges, and habitat elements with which federal- Department of Ecology approval effective November 1, 2010 Adopted by City of Des Moines Ordinance No. 1502 25
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