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18.45.155 <br />Special Hazard Flood Areas <br />18.45.158 <br />Vegetation Protection and Management <br />18.45.160 <br />Critical Area Master Plan Overlay <br />18.45.170 <br />Critical Areas Tracts and Easements <br />18.45.180 <br />Exceptions <br />18.45.190 <br />Time Limitation, Appeals and Vesting <br />18.45.195 <br />Violations <br />18.45.197 <br />Enforcement <br />18.45.200 <br />Recording Required <br />18.45.210 <br />Assurance Device <br />18.45.220 <br />Assessment Relief <br />Section 21. TMC Section 18.45.010 is hereby reenacted to read as follows: <br />18.45.010 Purpose <br />A. The purpose of TMC Chapter 18.45 is to protect the environment, human life and <br />property; to designate and classify ecologically critical areas including but not limited to <br />regulated wetlands and watercourses and geologically hazardous areas and to protect <br />these critical areas and their functions while also allowing for reasonable use of public <br />and private property. These regulations are prepared to comply with the Growth <br />Management Act, RCW 36.70A, to apply best available science according to WAC 365- <br />195-900 through 925 and to protect critical areas as defined by WAC 365-190-080. <br />B. Standards are hereby established to meet the following goals of protecting <br />environmentally critical areas: <br />1. Minimize developmental impacts on the natural functions of these areas. <br />2. Protect quantity and quality of water resources. <br />3. Minimize turbidity and pollution of wetlands and fish -bearing waters and <br />maintain wildlife habitat. <br />4. Prevent erosion and the loss of slope and soil stability caused by the removal <br />of trees, shrubs, and root systems of vegetative cover. <br />5. Protect the public against avoidable losses, public emergency rescue and <br />relief operations cost, and subsidy cost of public mitigation from landslide, subsidence, <br />erosion and flooding. <br />6. Protect the community's aesthetic resources and distinctive features of <br />natural lands and wooded hillsides. <br />7. Balance the private rights of individual property owners with the preservation <br />of environmentally critical areas. <br />8. Prevent the loss of wetland and watercourse function and acreage, and <br />strive for a gain over present conditions. <br />9. Give special consideration to conservation or protection measures <br />necessary to protect or enhance anadromous fisheries. <br />MLegislative Development\Critical Areas update 2-25-20 <br />MD:bjs Review and analysis by Barbara Saxton Page 8 of 87 <br />