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IV.11 Goal: Protect fish and wildlife habitat areas, including habitat corridors, migration routes, <br />ponds, streams, and breeding and nesting areas. <br />Objectives: <br />1. Manage land development and recreational activities to protect habitat from human <br />intrusion, including noise, particularly during critical periods of breeding, nesting and <br />migration . <br />2. Enhance and improve wildlife habitat and habitat corridors, which may be disturbed or <br />disrupted by development. <br />IV.12 Goal: Preserve the natural function of the floodplain and floodway, recognizing that the <br />historic flooding characteristic of mountain streams and rivers varies due to upstream landslides, <br />debris buildup, steep upstream gradients and impermeable soils. <br />Objective: <br />Avoid construction in the floodplain or floodway of structures which could interfere with the <br />flow of flood water or result in the destruction of private property or danger to human safety . <br />IV.13 Goal: The quality and integrity of existing riparian corridors should be preserved. <br />Objectives: <br />1. Identify and classify riparian corridors based upon their existing or potential habitat quality <br />and diversity, importance to the drainage system of the watershed and recreational <br />potential. <br />2. Establish riparian management zones including buffer and setback requirements, and <br />vegetation preservation requirements within the setbacks and buffers. <br />3. Encourage non-structural bank stabilization techniques emphasizing bio-engineering. <br />IV.14 Goal: Restrict development in geologically hazardous areas including areas, which are subject <br />to erosion, landslide, avalanche or subsidence. <br />Objectives: <br />1. Modification of natural terrain and removal of natural vegetation should be minimized. <br />Large flat building pads should be avoided in favor of terraced or piered structures. <br />2 . Consideration should be given to the geological stability of the soil and slope well above and <br />below a proposed building site, including the vulnerability of the site to avalanches or debris <br />deposition in periods of rapid water runoff. <br />3 . Disturbed terrain should be restored and revegetated as soon as feasible . Restoration <br />should conform to the natural surface relief. Straight steep planes in cuts should be avoided . <br />Natural drainage channels and swales should be restored. <br />Kittitas County <br />Comprehensive Plan <br />December 2016