Reardon Signs Critical Environmental Protections Into Law

I was honored to represent the Snohomish County Camano Association of Realtors last Wednesday as Snohomish County Executive Aaron Reardon signed new regulations into law that will help protect the County’s environment (I am behind Executive Reardon with other members of the County staff and community stakeholders).

The adoption of Snohomish County’s Critical Areas Regulations represents over three years of dedicated work, compromise and commitment to improve protections for the most sensitive areas of the county’s environment.

Environmental protections improved in the updated critical areas regulations include:
• strengthening provisions regulating clearing;
• adding lakes, marine shorelines, state sensitive listed species and species of local importance to our list of protected areas;
• increased buffers;
• limitations on impervious surface and clearing adjacent to water bodies containing critical habitat;
• improved protection of habitat containing anadromous fish;
• provisions for habitat corridors to connect wetlands with high value for habitat to other critical areas.

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