CITY OF DES MOINES SHORELINE MASTER PROGRAM
CITY OF DES MOINES SHORELINE MASTER PROGRAM
CITY OF DES MOINES SHORELINE MASTER PROGRAM
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Des Moines Shoreline Master Program<br />
GOAL<br />
A. Protect plant and animal species and their habitats, to enhance shoreline uses. Vegetation<br />
along the City’s shorelines and associated waterbodies should also be restored.<br />
POLICIES<br />
1. Preserve natural vegetation by controlling plant clearing and earth grading within the<br />
shoreline jurisdiction for new and redevelopment activities consistent with safe construction<br />
practices and in a manner that ensures shoreline ecological functions, ecosystems, and natural<br />
soil systems are not compromised.<br />
2. Promote vegetation restoration, and the control of invasive weeds and nonnative species to<br />
avoid adverse impacts to soil hydrology, and to reduce the hazard of slope failures or<br />
accelerated erosion.<br />
3. Encourage restoration or enhancement of native shoreline vegetation through incentives and<br />
non-regulatory programs to insure the conservation of the ecological functions provided by<br />
shoreline vegetation.<br />
3.2.8.4 Restoration<br />
Purpose and Intent: This is a sub-element to promote actions that restore shoreline habitat and<br />
ecological functions or processes that have been lost or impaired as a result of past development<br />
and actions.<br />
GOAL<br />
A. Restore shoreline habitats and seasonal ranges that support listed endangered and threatened<br />
species, as well as other anadromous fisheries.<br />
POLICIES<br />
1. Coordinate stream mouth restoration projects with upstream projects targeted to reduce<br />
localized flooding and improve fish passage such as culvert replacement.<br />
2. Encourage voluntary restoration projects in degraded shoreline environments.<br />
3. Monitor and adaptively manage restoration projects.<br />
4. Create incentives that will make it economically or otherwise attractive for development<br />
proposals to integrate shoreline ecological restoration into development projects.<br />
5. Establish and regulate uses located at or near stream estuaries in a manner that promotes City<br />
objectives for restoration.<br />
GOAL<br />
B. Restore and enhance shoreline habitats and processes on public lands.<br />
POLICIES<br />
1. Prioritize enhancement and restoration efforts at stream mouths, particularly in public parks.<br />
Department of Ecology approval effective November 1, 2010<br />
30 Adopted by City of Des Moines Ordinance No. 1502
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