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the /WQ Management Area is proposed; and 6. Maintenance, repair, and reconstruction of a fence that was legally established prior to June 10, 2009, provided that for any reconstruction it occurs in the same location and to the same dimensions as the pre-existing fence; (d) Emergency Activities. 1. Emergency repair of utility facilities (such as wastewater and stormwater pipes, electrical transmission lines, and television and cable systems) and transportation facilities (such as roadways, bridges, bikeways and pathways), failing slopes or eroding channel banks or channel beds; provided the city engineer has declared in writing that: a. Immediate repair is necessary to avert an imminent threat to water quality, the environment, public health, public safety, or the structural integrity of the utility facilities, transportation facilities, stream channel banks or stream channel beds, or structural integrity of adjacent structure(s); and b. The method of repair will minimize impacts to water quality and any emergency repairs resulting in bare soil conditions will comply with EC 9.4780(2)(b)2.; 2. Emergency response to spills of materials that threaten water quality; 3. Fire suppression and medical emergency response operations; (e) Construction and Maintenance of Vegetated Stormwater Management Facilities. Swales, filter strips, constructed wetlands, and other vegetated stormwater management facilities for pollution reduction or flow control are permitted if otherwise approved through the provisions of EC 9.6791 through 9.6797 in accordance with the Stormwater Management Manual adopted by administrative order of the city manager; (f) Public Improvement Projects. For purposes of this subsection (f), a public improvement project is defined as any improvement which upon construction and acceptance by a public entity shall become the entity’s responsibility to maintain, repair or replace. Public improvement includes, but is not limited to, local improvements or other structures or facilities constructed upon or under public or private property. Provided the city has on file the certification described in (f)4. below, the following public improvement projects, are permitted: 1. Construction of a public water quality improvement project that is identified in an approved city plan (including but not limited to the repair or rehabilitation of stream channels and banks, installation of aeration features, construction of facilities for removing stormwater pollutants, plantings for improving pollutant filtration, channel shading, or erosion control); 2. Construction or improvement of parks, recreation facilities, open space, and habitat enhancements (including but not limited to footpaths, bike paths, pedestrian and bike bridges, site furniture, boardwalks, kiosks, signs, planting of native species, hydrology and landscape restoration, and barriers for species containment); 3. Construction of public infrastructure including but not limited to streets, bridges, sidewalks, stormwater facilities, and other public utilities provided: Ordinance - 6