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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.; and 9. The proposed adjustment is consistent with EC 9.8030(21 )(e). (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 wetland, an adjustment to the provisions of EC 9.4920 may be made if no previous adjustment under this section has been approved for the specific portion of the conservation area and all of the following are met: 1. The proposed reduction in the conservation setback distance is no more than 20%; 2. The portion of the development site removed from the /WR conservation area complies with EC 9.4980(2)(a)4., (4)(b), (5)(a), (8), 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 more 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; 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; and 7. The proposed adjustment is consistent with EC 9.8030(21 )(e). (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 adjustment to the provisions of EC 9.4920 may be made if no previous adjustment under this section has been approved for the specific portion of the conservation area and all of the following are met: 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 site in compensation for reducing it in another area of the site, such that the total area of the /WR conservation area on the development site remains constant; Ordinance -23