14.02.090 Environmentally sensitive areas.
A. In accordance with WAC 197-11-908, the City of Lakewood designates environmentally sensitive areas as follows:
1. Areas designated natural by the City’s shoreline management master program environmental maps;
2. Fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas, erosion hazard areas, steep slopes, wetlands and streams, as described in the City’s critical areas and natural resources regulations;
3. The following categorical exemptions set forth in WAC 197-11-800 shall not apply when a project proposal is located in or partially within sensitive areas: WAC 197-11-800(1), (2c), (2e), (2f), (2g), (6a), and (25h).
B. The City shall treat proposals located wholly or partially within an environmentally sensitive area no differently than other proposals under this chapter, making a threshold determination for all such proposals. The City shall not automatically require an EIS for a proposal merely because it is proposed for location in an environmentally sensitive area.
C. Certain exemptions do not apply to lands covered by water, regardless of whether such lands covered by water are mapped. [Ord. 42 § 1, 1996.]