During the hearing for the Morgan Creek Cluster Subdivision, residents expressed concerns about the development's potential impact on local wildlife, including deer, beavers, and spawning coho salmon. To comply with environmental ordinances, the project's approved habitat mitigation plan utilizes buffer averaging to protect the creek and its associated riparian zones. Specifically, the design mandates a 100-foot development setback from the creek's ordinary high water line and a 55-foot setback around adjacent wetlands.
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Clark County Land Use Hearings · May 14, 2026 · 40:00–40:36 · Watch on CVTV ↗
Keywords: wetlands wildlife riparian salmon stormwater habitat
What was said
38:57 But we have a lot of, well, a half a dozen public comments advocating for the preservation of fish habitat and wildlife habitat riparian areas and wetlands and so I wonder if you could. Kind of given a risk, an overview of how the program you administer works to address those issues. Okay, first I'll start by saying that this project is vested under the old weather and habitat ordinance. We had two chapters that dealt with that one for habitat and another one for wetlands, right? Correct. We're for 40 and 4450. Okay. Apparently, they took advantage. Well, I'll start there are besides Morgan Creek there's another three see the man they pond you see on the development plan.
39:54 There's a tributary to Morgan Creek. And we type that as an MP stream non-fish breeding perennial, so it has a 100 foot riparian zone based on the old habitat ordinance. Okay. Okay. And they took advantage of the riparian zone average gene and 4440, and the wetland buffer averaging and 4450. Let's see. The riparian zone on the old code 4440. The riparian zone can be reduced up to 50%.
40:40 If there's a 200 foot riparian zone, they could reduce it down to 100 feet, as long as they average the buffer elsewhere on the parcel equivalent habitat functions. And that that applies to wetlands as well and the 44. Is there anything else I should catch on before we move on. I think that that kind of addresses it I mean, I hear this a lot in in subdivision development proposals that are kind of far from the urban core. They always seem to have streams wetlands habitat wildlife habitat.
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direct keyword 40:00–40:36 wetlands, wildlife, riparian, salmon, stormwater, habitat
ond you see on the development plan. There's a tributary to Morgan Creek. And we type that as an MP stream non-fish breeding perennial, so it has a 100 foot riparian zone based on the old habitat ordinance. Okay. Okay. And they took advantage of the riparian zone average gene and 4440, and the wetland buffer averaging and 4450. Let's see. The riparian zone on the old code 4440. The riparian zone can be reduced up to 50%. If there's a 200 foot riparian zone, they could reduce it down to 100 feet,