Open space and recreation. Retain open space and green space, enhance recreational opportunities, enhance fish and wildlife habitat, increase access to natural resource lands and water, and develop parks and recreation facilities.
Environment. Protect and enhance the environment and enhance the state’s high quality of life, including air and water quality, and the availability of water.
Relationship to other regulations: “These critical areas regulations shall apply as an overlay and in addition to zoning, site development, stormwater management, building and other regulations adopted by the city of Edmonds.”
B. Any individual critical area adjoined or overlain by another type of critical areashall have the buffer and meet the requirements that provide the most protection to the critical areas involved. When any provision of this title or any existing land use regulation conflicts with this title, that which provides more protection to the critical areashall apply.
Counties and cities are required to identify open space corridors within and between urban growth areas for multiple purposes, including those areas needed as critical habitat by wildlife.
Because the critical areas regulations must be consistent with the comprehensive plan, each comprehensive plan should set forth the underlying policies for the jurisdiction’s critical areas program.
