RES 2001-12 GREENWAYS PLAN & HABITAT MAPPING FOR WILDLIFE CORRIDORS (2)RESOLUTION NO. 2001 —12
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF BAINBRIDGE
ISLAND, WASHINGTON, RELATING TO THE
GREENWAYS PLAN AND HABITAT MAPPING
FOR WILDLIFE CORRIDORS.
WHEREAS, the Greenways Goals and Policies of the Comprehensive Plan
promote the identification and development of an integrated system of open space land
area, including wildlife habitat and wildlife corridors; and
WHEREAS, the Greenways Goals and Policies of the Comprehensive Plan
promote the protection of locally significant wildlife habitat by establishing an
interconnected greenways network that links east to west and north to south, connecting
lamer tracts of critical wildlife habitat, thus reducing fragmentation of wildlife habitat;
and
WHEREAS, the Greenways Goals and Policies of the Comprehensive Plan
encourage the preservation of these greenways through a variety of voluntary tools and
incentives such as property tax deferral programs, transfer of development rights and
conservation easements, in addition to land use actions, land donation and public
purchase; and
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan designate existing public parks including
Meigs, Manzanita, Grand Forest, Gazzam Lake and Fort Ward, as larger tracts of
protected critical wildlife habitat; and
WHEREAS, the corridor links between larger habitat areas are important habitat
connecting corridors for the future survival of Island species; and
WHEREAS, the Wildlife Corridor Network is a connected network of wildlife
habitat of local significance; and
WHEREAS, the Wildlife Corridor Network will be implemented through
volunteer stewardship by public and private land owners and by using regulations the
Critical Areas Ordinance (CAO), the Vegetation Management Ordinance (BIMC 16.22)
and Flexible Lot Design Subdivision (BIMC 17.04, 17.12, and 17.16); and
WHEREAS, development of public or private properties which have a designated
Habitat linking corridor is allowed under the Critical Areas Ordinance; and
WHEAREAS, corridors are represented on the Wildlife Corridor .Network Map
as approximations with regard to the extent and location of the habitat linking corridor;
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WHEREAS, the City of Bainbridge Island will establish a pilot program
promoting volunteer land stewardship centered on a selected wildlife corridor segment;
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WHEREAS, the City of Bainbridge Island is not intending the Wildlife Corridor
Network as a wildlife management program; now therefore
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BAINBRIDGE ISLAND,
WASHINGTON, DOES RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Wildlife habitat of local significance shall include large public parks and
connecting corridor links as represented in the Bainbridge Island Wildlife Corridor
Nc t work Map, Attachment A. Note: The Wildlife Corridor locations shown on the map
represent approximations of the extent and location of the corridor network.
Section 2. The City will provide incentives for managing private land for wildlife
habitat including promoting property tax reduction through the Kitsap County Current
Usc Open Space Program and establishing development incentives, including transfer of
development rights, for property owners placing habitat in conservation easements.
Section 3. Volunteer stewardship will be the primary means of promoting,
implementing and protecting the Bainbridge Island Wildlife Corridor Network. Efforts
shall be made by the City to coordinate a stewardship program within each neighborhood
containing a wildlife corridor using Watershed Watch and other existing neighborhood
organizations, where possible. Each volunteer neighborhood stewardship group, with
support from the City, would develop stewardship guidelines for their neighborhood
corridor.
Section 4. A pilot program will be established that promotes land stewardship
through community workshops and develops general standards for working with
neighbors and property owners. The pilot program will promote the involvement of a
volunteer group of property owner's along a selected corridor segment. The property
owner's of this selected corridor will meet to develop volunteer land stewardship
guidelines for habitat management on their corridor.
Section 5. Existing regulations of the Critical Areas Ordinance (BIMC 16.20),
Vegetation Management (16.22) and Flexible Lot Design Subdivision (BIMC 17.04,
17.12 andl7.16) will be utilized to retain wildlife corridors.
PASSED by the City Council this 14"' day of March 2001.
APPROVED by the Mayor this 15"' day of March 2001.
D ht Sutton,ayor
ATTEST/AUTHENTICATE:
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usan P. Kasper, City Clerk
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: March 7, 2001
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: March 14, 2001
RESOLUTION NO.: 2001-12
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