Item 7: Ordinances on Goal 5 Natrual Resources Study

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Ordinance - 25 NO.1 10/18/05 EC 9.4980(7); 5. The portion of the development site that remains in a /WR conservation setback area complies with EC 9.4980(1) through (5); and 6. The reduction occurs first by reducing the area of any portion of the resource site that extends landward beyond the conservation setback. If additional reduction in the /WR conservation area is needed to reduce the combined area to 33% of the development site area, the conservation setback area described in EC 9.4920(1)(b) may be reduced the minimum necessary to meet the standard in subsection 2. (b) For property containing a /WR conservation area due to a resource identified in the Goal 5 Water Resources Conservation Plan as a Category A, B or C stream or as a Category A wetlandt::M1. adiustment to the Drovisions of EC 9.4920 mav be made if no Drevious adiustment under this section has been aDDroved and: 1. The proposed reduction in the conservation setback distance is no more than 20%; 2. The portion of the development site removed from the IWR conservation area complies with EC 9.4980(2)(a)4., (4)(b), (5)(a), (8), (9), and (10); 3. The portion of the development site outside the /WR conservation area, including the area removed, complies with EC 9.4980(7); 4. The remaining /WR conservation setback area complies with EC 9.4980(1) through (5); 5. For Category A wetland sites, reduction in the width of the /WR conservation area shall occur first in areas where the adjacent wetland is of lower quality or is[I1KJFe} I11ss. disturbed by human activities and expansion of the width of the /WR conservation area shall occur first in areas where the adjacent wetland is of higher quality or is less disturbed by human activities; and 6. For riparian or upland wildlife habitat sites where a reduction in the width of the /WR conservation area is allowed, the conservation setback area may be reduced, to the extent practicable, according to the following priority order: a. Where the reduction area does not include a mapped Goal 5 resource site designated for protection in the Goal 5 Water Resources Conservation Plan, b. Where the adjacent habitat quality is lower. (c) For property containing a /WR conservation area due to a resource identified in the Goal 5 Water Resources Conservation Plan as a Category A or B stream or as a Category A wetland. an adiustment to the Drovisions of EC 9.4920 mav be made if no Drevious adiustment under this section has been aDDroved and: 1. Conservation setback averaging is employed to maintain the same total area within the /WR conservation area within the development site that would have existed without the reduction in the conservation setback distance. Conservation setback averaging shall be accomplished by expanding the /WR conservation area in an undeveloped area of the development