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A. Policies.

1. The city should manage its critical freshwater habitats within shoreline jurisdiction including, but not limited to, those portions of streams, wetlands, and lakes, their associated channel migration zones, and floodplains and designated habitats of local significance in order to achieve a no net loss of shoreline ecological function and in accordance with this title.

2. Protection and restoration measures should address the entire length of the shoreline riparian corridor from the headwaters to the subject estuary.

3. Use activities and development within stream channels, associated channel migration zones, wetlands, and floodplains, to the extent such areas are in the shoreline jurisdictional area, should be minimized to assure no net loss of shoreline ecological functions associated with said areas, including the associated hyporheic zone.

4. Restoration planning should include incentives and other means to restore water connections that have been impeded by previous development and provisions to protect hydrologic connections between waterbodies, watercourses, and associated wetlands.

5. Comprehensive watershed management planning, when available, should be implemented to protect critical freshwater habitat areas.

B. Regulations.

1. No structures of any kind shall be placed in or constructed over critical freshwater habitats unless they are for a preferred use and result in no net loss of ecological function and are compliant with the applicable requirements of this title. [Ord. 2013-02-005 § 2 (Exh. 1)].