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A. It is the policy of the city of Lacey to require site planning and habitat management planning to designate and protect the functions and values of habitat conservation areas based on best available scientific information wherever possible;

B. It is the intent of the city of Lacey that activities in or affecting habitat conservation areas not degrade habitat conservation areas functions and values by:

1. Decreasing breeding, nesting, and feeding areas for many species of birds, including those rare and endangered;

2. Decreasing habitat for fish and other forms of wildlife, including those rare and endangered;

3. Destroying sites needed for education and scientific research, such as outdoor biophysical laboratories, living classrooms, and training areas;

C. The purpose of this chapter is to protect the public health, safety and welfare by preventing the adverse environmental impacts of development by:

1. Preserving, protecting and restoring habitat conservation areas by regulating development within habitat conservation areas;

2. Protecting the public against losses from publicly funded mitigation of avoidable impacts;

3. Alerting appraisers, assessors, owners, and potential buyers or lessees to the development limitations of habitat conservation areas;

4. Providing city of Lacey officials with information to evaluate, approve, condition, or deny public or private development proposals;

5. Implementing the policies of the Growth Management Act, the State Environmental Policy Act, Chapter 43.21C RCW, City of Lacey and Lacey Urban Growth Area Comprehensive Plan, the city Zoning Code (LMC Title 16), the city Environmental Policy Ordinance (Chapter 14.24 LMC), the city Tree and Vegetation Protection and Preservation Ordinance (Chapter 14.32 LMC), and all related environmental and community plans and programs. (Ord. 1505 §19, 2017; Ord. 935 §9 (part), 1992).