1. Restoration and enhancement of shorelines should be designed using principles of landscape and conservation ecology and should restore or enhance chemical, physical, and biological watershed processes that create and sustain shoreline habitat structures and functions.

2. Restoration and enhancement actions should improve shoreline ecological functions and processes and should target meeting the needs of sensitive plant, fish and wildlife species as identified by Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Washington Department of Natural Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service and/or U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

3. The town should, and private entities are encouraged to, seek funding from state, federal, private and other sources to implement restoration, enhancement, and acquisition projects, particularly those that are identified in the Restoration Plan of this SMP or the local watershed plan.

4. The town should develop processing guidelines that will streamline the review of restoration-only projects.

5. Restoration and enhancement projects should be coordinated with local tribes, volunteer groups and conservation districts.

6. Allow for the use of tax incentive programs, mitigation banking, grants, land swaps, or other programs, as they are developed, to encourage restoration and enhancement of shoreline ecological functions and to protect habitat for fish, wildlife, and plants.

1. Restoration and enhancement shall be carried out in accordance with an approved shoreline restoration or enhancement plan, as submitted by the applicant and consistent with Appendix B, Section B.1.6.

2. All shoreline restoration and enhancement projects shall protect the integrity of adjacent natural resources, including aquatic habitats and water quality.

3. Long-term maintenance and monitoring shall be included in restoration or enhancement proposals.

4. Shoreline restoration and enhancement may be allowed if the project applicant demonstrates that no undesired change to sediment transport or river current will result and that the enhancement will not adversely affect ecological processes, properties, or habitat.

5. Shoreline restoration and enhancement projects shall be designed using the best available scientific and technical information and implemented using best management practices.

6. Shoreline restoration and enhancement shall not significantly interfere with the normal public use of waters of the state without appropriate mitigation.

7. Shoreline restoration and ecological enhancement projects may be permitted in all shoreline environments provided the project’s purpose is the restoration of the natural character and ecological functions of the shoreline.

8. The town may grant relief from shoreline master program development standards and use regulations resulting from shoreline restoration projects consistent with criteria and procedures in WAC 173-27-215. [Ord. 580 Att. A § 5.9, 2019.]