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The following activities shall be exempt from the review requirements of this chapter and Chapter 1C of the City of Lacey Development Guidelines and Public Works Standards provided such activities are undertaken using best management practices in a manner that does not adversely impact the geologically sensitive area:

A. Nonpublic outdoor recreation activities such as bird watching or hiking, when undertaken by a property owner on his or her property for his or her personal noncommercial purposes;

B. The harvesting of wild crops in a manner that is not injurious to natural reproduction of such crops and provided the harvesting does not require tilling of soil, planting of crops, or alteration of the geologically sensitive area by changing existing topography, water conditions or other natural parameters important to the geological sensitivity;

C. Boundary markers;

D. Site investigative work necessary for land use application submittals such as surveys, soil logs, percolation tests and other related activities. In every case, impacts shall be minimized and disturbed areas shall be restored immediately after investigative work has been completed;

E. Educational activities and scientific research;

F. Normal and routine maintenance or repair of existing utility structures or right-of-way;

G. Installation, replacement, alteration or construction and operation of all electric facilities, lines, equipment or appurtenances, not including substations, with an associated voltage of fifty-five thousand volts or less in improved city road right-of-way; and

H. Installation, replacement, alteration or construction and operation of all natural gas, cable communications and telephone facilities, lines, pipes, mains, equipment or appurtenances in improved city road right-of-way. (Ord. 1505 §49, 2017; Ord. 1192 §81, 2002; Ord. 935 §11 (part), 1992).