25.105.010 Purpose
(1) Wetlands, hillsides, and streams, and the buffers of these areas together constitute environmentally sensitive areas that are of special concern to the city of DuPont.
(2) The purposes of this chapter are to protect the public health, safety and welfare by preventing the adverse environmental impacts of development listed in subsection (1)(a) of this section, and by:
- (a) Preserving and protecting environmentally sensitive areas by regulating development within them and their buffers;
- (b) Educating the public as to the long-term importance of environmentally sensitive areas and the responsibilities of the city to protect and preserve the natural environment for future generations;
- (c) Encouraging a policy of no net loss of wetland and stream function, value and area within the city;
- (d) Preventing adverse cumulative impacts to water quality, wetlands, stream corridors, and fish and wildlife habitats;
- (e) Protecting the public from injury, loss of life, property damage or financial loss due to erosion, landslides, soil subsidence or steep slope failures;
- (f) Providing the city of DuPont with information necessary to approve, condition, or deny public or private development proposals;
- (g) Alerting appraisers, assessors, owners and potential buyers or lessees to the development limitations of environmentally sensitive areas;
- (h) Implementing the policies of the State Environmental Policy Act, the Growth Management Act, Chapter 43.21C RCW, the city of DuPont comprehensive plan, and all city-related plans and policies.
(Ord. 02-707 § 1)
This page of the DuPont Municipal Code is current through Ordinance 08-872, passed December 6, 2008.
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