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Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program <br />provisions for critical areas shall protect existing ecological functions and <br />ecosystem-wide processes. <br />5. Promote human uses and values that are compatible with the other objectives of this <br />Section, such as public access and aesthetic values, provided that impacts to <br />ecological functions are first avoided, and any unavoidable impacts are mitigated. <br />B. Requlations<eneral requlations for environmental protection <br />The following provisions apply to any use or development occurring in shoreline <br />jurisdiction whether or not a permit or other authorization is required from Kittitas <br />County. <br />1. Proponents of new shoreline use and development, including preferred uses and <br />uses that are exempt from permit requirements, shall employ all reasonable <br />measures to protect shoreline functions and processes. <br />2. Adverse impacts caused by new shoreline use and development shall be mitigated <br />using the following actions in order of priority (referred to as the mitigation <br />sequence): <br />a. Avoiding the impact altogether by not taking a certain action or parts of an action; <br />b. Minimizing impacts by limiting the degree or magnitude of the action and its <br />implementation by adhering to the dimensional requirements, performance <br />standards and design criteria in this Program and using other technologies or <br />steps, as needed, to avoid or reduce impacts; <br />c. Rectifying the impact by repairing, rehabilitating, or restoring the affected <br />environment' <br />d. Reducing oreliminating the impact over time by preservation and maintenance <br />operations; <br />e. Compensating for the impact by replacing, enhancing, or providing substitute <br />resources or environments; andf. Monitoring the impact and the compensation projects and taking appropriate <br />corrective measures. <br />3. Proposals for new shoreline uses and developments shall clearly identify potential <br />shoreline impacts. During initial review of the proposal, the Administrator may <br />require the applicant to submit documentation, prepared by a qualified professional, <br />to assess the degree and extent of potential impacts to shoreline functions. When <br />reviewing proposals for new shoreline use and development, the Administrator shall <br />first determine whether identified shoreline impacts have been avoided and secondly <br />minimized. The Administrator shall require compensatory mitigation, designed by a <br />qualified professional, for development proposals that: <br />a. Do not fully conform to one (1) or more of the dimensional requirements, <br />performance standards, and/or design criteria in this Program; or <br />b. Require a variance or conditional use permit; or <br />Chapter 5 <br />March 7,2016 <br />55