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The purposes of this chapter are to protect the public health, safety and welfare by preventing the adverse environmental impacts of development by:

A. Developing specific requirements for analysis and performance standards related to identification and protection from erosion hazard and landslide hazard;

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

C. Alerting appraisers, assessors, owners, and potential buyers or lessees to the development limitations of geologically sensitive areas;

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

E. Implementing the policies of the Growth Management Act, the State Environmental Policy Act, Chapter 43.21C RCW, the city Comprehensive Plan, the city Zoning Code (LMC Title 16), the city Environmental Policy Ordinance (Chapter 14.24 LMC), the city Tree Protection and Preservation Ordinance (Chapter 14.32 LMC), and all related environmental and community plans and programs. (Ord. 1505 §45, 2017; Ord. 935 §11 (part), 1992).