As a condition of any approval allowing alteration of wetlands and/or wetland buffers, or as an enforcement action pursuant to LMC 14.28.560, the city of Lacey shall require that the applicant engage in the restoration, creation or enhancement of wetlands and their buffers in order to offset the impacts resulting from the applicant’s or violator’s actions. The applicant shall develop a plan that provides for land acquisition, construction, maintenance and monitoring of replacement wetlands that recreate as nearly as possible the original wetlands in terms of acreage, function, geographic location and setting, and that are larger than the original wetlands. The overall goal of any compensatory project shall be no net loss of wetlands function and acreage and to strive for a net resource gain in wetlands over present conditions. Compensation shall be completed prior to wetland destruction, where possible.

Compensatory mitigation shall follow an approved mitigation plan pursuant to LMC 14.28.510 and shall meet the following minimum performance standards set forth in LMC 14.28.440 through 14.28.510. (Ord. 912 §1 Sec. 7.5(f), 1991).