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A. The City adopts the following policies as the basis for the City’s exercise of authority pursuant to this section:

1. The City shall use all practicable means, consistent with other essential considerations of state policy, to improve and coordinate plans, functions, programs, and resources to the end that the state and its citizens may:

a. Fulfill the responsibilities of each generation as a trustee of the environment for succeeding generations;

b. Endeavor to achieve for the people of Lakewood safe, healthful, and aesthetically pleasing surroundings;

c. Attain the widest range of beneficial uses of the environment without degradation, risk to health or safety, or other undesirable and unintended consequences;

d. Preserve important historic, cultural and natural aspects of our national heritage;

e. Maintain, wherever possible, an environment which supports diversity and variety of individual choice;

f. Achieve a balance between population and resource use;

g. Enhance the quality of renewable resources and approach the maximum attainable recycling of depletable resources.

B. The City supplements its policies set forth herein by the policies, plans, rules and regulations identified, referenced and/or described (in concept or actual name), as they may now exist or as they may subsequently be amended or developed, as a basis for the exercise of substantive authority to approve, condition or deny proposed actions under RCW 43.21C.060 of SEPA, as follows:

1. City comprehensive plan and related community plan;

2. Pierce County Shoreline Master Programs and City shoreline use regulations;

3. Lakewood area update plan;

4. Lakewood capital improvements plan;

5. Lakewood six-year street plan;

6. State growth management legislation or initiatives;

7. Lakewood subarea plans and policies;

8. Zoning Code and zoning map;

9. Subdivision regulations;

10. Water quality ordinance;

11. Surface Water Design Manual;

12. Critical areas and natural resource lands regulations;

13. Site development regulations;

14. Flood damage prevention regulations;

15. Public and private street standards;

16. Title 8, Pierce County Code, Health and Welfare;

17. State Environmental Policy Act. [Ord. 42 § 1, 1996.]