14.50.780.01 General administration.
A. The city shall record all project review actions within shoreline jurisdiction, including shoreline permits and letters of exemption.
B. As part of shoreline permit review process, the city shall evaluate shoreline conditions on an ongoing basis to ensure no net loss of ecological functions, to protect and enhance visual quality and to identify and protect significant historic or cultural resources in the shoreline. Specific issues to address in evaluations include, but are not limited to, the following:
1. Water quality;
2. Conservation of aquatic vegetation and control of noxious weeds;
3. Changing visual character as a result of new development or redevelopment and individual vegetation conservation practices along shoreline and upland areas;
4. Shoreline stabilization and modifications; and
5. Significant historic or cultural resources within shoreline jurisdiction resulting from research, inventories, discoveries or new information.