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<br /> <br />Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program <br />Chapter 6 126 <br />March 7, 2016 <br />Kittitas County Board of County Commissioners Shoreline Master Program Adopting Ordinance <br />Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program Exhibit A | March 2016 | Page 126 of 339 <br />4. Restoration should be used to complement and not take the place of the shoreline <br />protection strategies required by this Program to achieve the greatest overall <br />ecological benefit. <br /> <br />5. Consider opportunities to seek funding from state, federal, private and other sources <br />to implement planned restoration, enhancement, and acquisition projects. <br /> <br />6. Develop processing guidelines that will streamline the review of restoration only <br />projects. <br /> <br />7. Encourage public and private shoreline owners to promote the proliferation of native, <br />noninvasive wildlife, fish, and plants. <br /> <br />8. Ensure that long-term maintenance and monitoring of restoration sites is included in <br />the original permitting of the project. <br /> <br />9. Support voluntary and cooperative restoration efforts between local, state, and <br />federal public agencies, tribes, non-profit organizations, and landowners to improve <br />shorelines with impaired ecological functions and/or processes. <br /> <br />10. Restoration projects should be coordinated with applicable local public utility and <br />conservation districts. <br />11. Restoration should be integrated with and should support other natural resource <br />management efforts in Kittitas County. <br />12. Jurisdictions should coordinate with state resource agencies to develop educational <br />materials which promote the maintenance and restoration of shoreline functions. <br />Educational materials shall provide resources for a variety of scenarios and trends <br />occurring within the shoreline that is reflected in the inventory and analysis, such as: <br />the conversion of agricultural land to non-agricultural use; existing and ongoing <br />agricultural uses; and existing or planned residential and commercial development. <br />13. Encourage the agricultural industry to continue to work closely with agencies, such <br />as the Natural Resource Conservation Service and conservation districts, with <br />expertise in agricultural practices and restoration to improve degraded shoreline <br />functions. <br />14. Allow for the use of tax incentive programs, mitigation banking, restoration grants, <br />land swaps, or other programs, as they are developed, to encourage restoration of <br />shoreline ecological functions and to protect habitat for fish, wildlife, and plants. <br /> <br />15. Jurisdictions should pursue the development of a public benefit rating system that <br />provides incentives for the restoration of the shoreline.