CITY OF DES MOINES SHORELINE MASTER PROGRAM

Des Moines Shoreline Master Program
Like the Seahurst Park project, monitoring and evaluation of restoration activities is typically
associated with individual projects. Funding individual site-specific projects should include
provisions for long-term monitoring. However, the City could also consider development of a
comprehensive monitoring and evaluation strategy for its updated SMP. In keeping with the
overall goal that the updated master program “improve the overall condition of habitat and
resources within the shoreline area,” the City could prepare an evaluation every 2 or 3 years that
would document development, mitigation, restoration, and voluntary activities that had an affect
on the shoreline. This type of periodic “system-wide” evaluation would serve to monitor
conditions over time and provide some measure of performance in the context of master program
restoration and protection goals and objectives.
Department of Ecology approval effective November 1, 2010
48 Adopted by City of Des Moines Ordinance No. 1502