Sections 12.04.201-203
Extracted standards
7 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
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- Avoidance preferred standard
Avoiding the impact by designing or re-designing the project so that the resource or constraint is fully protected and not disturbed. Avoidance is the preferred standard unless the Planning Agency determines that implementation of this standard effectively removes the potential for the reasonable development of the parcel.
- Compensation for impacts
Compensating for the impact by replacing or providing a substitute resource or environments. Compensation is appropriate where the Planning Agency determines that avoiding or minimizing the impact is not acceptable.
- Management Plan required
Management Plans are a tool that can be used to minimize the impacts of development on environmentally sensitive environmental resources and/or constraints. Where avoidance is not a feasible alternative, a Management Plan may be prepared, consistent with the provisions of this Subsection.
- Minimization through Management Plan
Minimizing the impact through preparation and implementation of a County-approved Management Plan prepared by an independent consultant approved by, or under the direction of, County staff, that limits the degree of impact to the maximum extent possible.
- Monetary deposit may be required
For discretionary projects, a monetary deposit may be required to be posted and maintained to insure the protection of the resource or avoidance of the constraint during construction.
- Resource inventory and analysis required
Where required within each subsection of this Section, project applications shall provide for the professional site-specific inventory and analysis of the resources and constraints identified in this Section.
- Vegetation restoration required
Where the County determines that vegetation identified as an environmentally sensitive resource as defined by General Plan Policy 1.17, has been removed from the site in anticipation of development, or, within one (1) year prior to submittal of a land use application, the following shall be required: Prior to issuance of any development permits, the developer shall fund a native plant restoration program to return the site to a naturally-functioning habitat.
From the ordinance
The primary purpose of site development resource standards is to avoid the impact of development projects on sensitive environmental resources and natural site constraints.