(1) Development, construction, or uses shall include the timely restoration of disturbed features to a natural condition or to a stabilized condition that prevents degradation within the stream corridor.

(2) Large-scale projects or projects extending over several months shall be phased to allow reclamation of areas where work or operations have been completed.

(3) Reclamation shall be scheduled to address precipitation, meltwater runoff, growing season, and other seasonal variables that influence restoration and recovery.

(4) Topography shall be finished to grades, elevations, and contours consistent with natural conditions in adjacent and surrounding areas.

(5) Where existing development and construction prevent the return of a site to its natural condition, sites may be finished to conditions comparable to surrounding properties provided suitable protective measures are used to prevent stream corridor degradation.

(6) Cut-and-fill slopes shall be stabilized at, or at less than, the normal angle of repose for the materials involved.

(7) The replacement or enhancement of vegetation within wetlands and required vegetative buffers shall use naturally occurring, native plant species. In other parts of the stream corridor, naturally occurring, native plant species shall be used, unless a showing of good cause acceptable to the administrative official is provided, in which case self-maintaining or low-maintenance plant species compatible with native vegetation shall be preferred over nonnative and high-maintenance species. (Ord. 2123, § 1 (Att.), 2021.)