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This chapter is adopted for the following purposes:

A. To promote, protect, and preserve the public interest by establishing standards for and regulating land alteration, particularly the clearing, grading, filling, and/or drainage of land in the town without preventing the reasonable use of land;

B. To regulate land-disturbing activity for control of erosion, sedimentation, storm water runoff, water pollution, vegetation removal, and landslide in order to minimize damage to public and private property;

C. To promote building and site planning practices that are consistent with the town’s natural topography, soils, and vegetation features and which implement the South Prairie comprehensive plan and the Washington State Environmental Policy Act;

D. To minimize hazards to life, health, and property;

E. To require that development of environmentally sensitive lands be accomplished in a manner which protects those areas from damage or degradation and which promotes the health, safety, and welfare of the public.

Notwithstanding the above-stated purposes, nothing in this chapter is intended to or shall be deemed to create a duty of the town to protect or promote the interests of any particular person or class of persons. Further, the existence of these regulations or any failure, refusal, or omission of the town to enforce any provision in this chapter is not intended to prevent, supplant, or affect the right of any person affected by the clearing, grading, filling, and/or drainage operations of another to invoke such private remedies as may be available against such other persons. [Ord. 378 § 2 (Exh. 1), 1999.]