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Kittitas County December 2016 Comprehensive Plan <br />Resolve challenges by encouraging practices, which maintain and/or enhance the visual quality <br />of the viewshed. Such practices should include, but not be limited to, the following: <br />a. Retention of existing vegetation and natural features. <br />b. Vegetative buffers around active uses such as recreation, commercial and residential <br />development, and forest harvesting. <br />c. Forest management practices, which protect and/or improve the viewshed quality while <br />recognizing intended long term commercial forest practices. <br />d. Public and private recreational activities, which protect and/or improve the viewshed <br />quality while recognizing the intended public benefit of the recreational use. <br />e. Restoration of impacted lands within the viewshed to provide year round aesthetic quality. <br />f. Any timber harvesting within the viewshed should be thoughtfully planned and include <br />innovative strategies to achieve the above listed goals. <br />IV.21 Goal: Identify potential land exchanges, which will ensure the long term protection of <br />viewshed quality. <br />IV.22 Goal: Prevent, in the long-term and short-term, the degradation of air quality in the Pass <br />area. <br />Objectives: <br />1. Codes, covenants and restrictions in new developments should require the installation of <br />wood stoves and fireplaces, which minimize the introduction of pollutants into the air. <br />2. Educational material should be developed and distributed which explains the impact of <br />temperature inversion on air quality and the typical weather conditions in which inversions <br />occur. <br />3. Voluntary restraint from wood burning should be strongly encouraged, particularly in valley <br />floors where the impact of temperature inversions is most severe. <br />4. In designing and implementing strategies to encourage the sensible use and control of all air <br />pollution sources at the Pass, the assistance of staff from regional air quality control <br />authorities should be sought. <br />IV.23 Goal: Prevent or reduce the intrusion of sources of high noise levels into the Pass area. <br />Objectives: <br />1. Options for altering the jet flight pattern for high speed, low altitude military maneuvers in <br />Gold Creek Valley should be researched. <br />2. The use of non-muffled compression brakes on Interstate 90 should be prohibited. (???)