Proposed Critical Areas regulations City Council comment summary and staff report, 11 22 05

City of Sammamish Proposed Critical Areas Regulations City Council Comment Summary & Staff Response November 22, 2005 Please note that comments will be regularly added to this comment tracking table as review of the proposed critical areas regulations continues – check the date for the most current edition of the table. New comments from 11/15/05 begin with item 20. A new staff recommendation has been added to item 16 regarding tree pruning in shoreline buffers. Additional staff comments/recommendations have been added at the end of the Council comment table. Staff Recommendation for Council City Council Comment Council Comment Staff Response Code Amendment (if Recommendation Number applicable) Incentives: How has staff Wetland and stream buffer No further changes identified. 1. considered comments about enhancement incentives are provided avoiding penalizing property in proposed buffer reduction code owners who have restored or sections 21A.50.290(7) and protected their buffers and 21A.50.330(6). Also, proposed SMC rewarding those who have already 21A.50.290(1) includes a recently developed their land in a way that added code provision that would apply has degraded buffer functions? buffers based on the previous Fellinge classification when voluntary restoration occurs. This section reads as follows: (c) Where wetland functions have been improved due to voluntary implementation of an approved stewardship, restoration and/or ...