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AN ORDINANCE relating to sensitive areas; correcting inconsistencies between K.C.C. 16.82 and K.C.C. 21A.24 relating to exemptions from clearing and grading permit and sensitive areas review; clarifying permit exceptions regarding noxious weed removal, ditch cleaning, agriculture activities, buffers and fish habitat restoration projects and the use of herbicides and other hazardous substances; adding an exception for clearing in coal mine hazard areas; clarifying and eliminating inconsistencies in exemptions; allowing conversions between agricultural uses; combining modifications and exceptions processes into one appealable, administrative modifications process; clarifying process to review sensitive area designations; consolidating the permit review for franchise utility R-O-W use permits; adding a review process for programmatic grading permits; extending variances to building setbacks; making appeals provisions consistent with K.C.C. title 21A; clarifying the emergency exemption procedures; expanding the purpose to include protection of habitat and species diversity; adding authority to identify and map channel migration areas; creating exceptions to the buffer requirements for landslide and steep slope hazard areas and wetlands and streams; clarifying permitted alterations in hazard areas and in wetlands and streams; defining new permitted alterations in channel migration areas and coal mine hazard areas; adding exploratory drilling as permitted alteration in landslide and steep slope hazard areas; clarifying requirements for wetland and stream enhancement, restoration and mitigation and reorganizing wetland and stream standards; requiring restoration for temporary wetland alteration resulting from utility pipeline; repealing definitions for biologist and stormwater facilities; adding definition of alteration in definitions chapter; adding new definitions of bog, fen, aquatic bed wetland, emergent wetland, scrub-shrub wetland, grazed wet meadow, wetla...

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