Common use of BIOLOGY Clause in Contracts

BIOLOGY. 5.1 UCSB will continue to implement a general buffer of 100’ from all Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Areas (▇▇▇▇) including wetlands, excluding all development entitled or otherwise agreed to prior to the effective date of this Agreement for which a lesser setback is allowed. 5.2 The buffer identified in 5.1 of this Agreement may be reduced if conditions occur where structures, developments, or roadways currently exist within the 100’ setback boundary as noted in Attachment A: Wetland Boundary Map. Should UCSB redevelop within areas identified in Attachment A, the following conditions will be met: a. the proposed buffer will be reduced to the edge boundary of the existing developed area, unless the new development may be feasibly sited to expand the buffer, in which case the buffer shall be as close to 100’ as is feasible; b. Whenever the buffer is less than 100’, UCSB shall create, enhance and/or restore native habitat in permanently protected areas at a 3-to-1 ratio. For example, if an existing structure is 50’ from a wetland and may only be feasibly redeveloped in this location, UCSB will calculate the square foot area which would have constituted a 100’ buffer and create, enhance and/or restore native habitat 3 times that area in another location deemed appropriate for such habitat; c. In no instance will any redevelopment further encroach upon the existing setback distance and in no instance will areas that are currently undeveloped within the buffer be developed; d. All buffers shall be managed and maintained as a riparian and/or wetland habitat buffer zone to provide adequate and continuing buffer functions throughout the life of the development, including specific conditions achieving these standards and ensuring no significant disruption of habitat values; and e. Pedestrian and bicycle trails may be allowed within the buffers, provided that adequate protection for natural resource values can be provided and implemented. 5.3 As a priority action, UCSB shall take all feasible measures to: a. avoid construction of new or replacement structures within the setback identified in Section 5.1 of this Agreement; and b. avoid new construction, including roads in new alignments, within undisturbed habitat in ▇▇▇▇ or in currently undisturbed or undeveloped buffer areas. 5.4 Wetland restoration, including re-establishment of tidal circulation, on the UCSB campus will be investigated as a possible carbon sequestration project providing carbon offsets for campus development. 5.5 UCSB shall consider and seek to integrate enhancement of biologic and hydrologic connectivity within and between Goleta and Devereux sloughs where feasible for all LRDP projects that either impact either Slough or which involves lands that could be used for such enhancements. UCSB shall attempt to fund such enhancement efforts within project budgets, and where Project budgets cannot include such enhancements, UCSB shall seek external funding for their implementation. 5.6 SUN recognizes that UCSB has adopted the following mitigation measure, and UCSB agrees to amend it as noted in italics: BIO-1E The University shall work with the City of Santa ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, and Goleta West Sanitary District, to reintroduce tidal influx to the Storke