18.04.420 Substantive Authority.
1. This Chapter supplements all existing regulations, powers, and duties.
2. The City may attach reasonable, written conditions to any permit/license if the conditions are necessary to mitigate specific, probable, significant, adverse environmental impacts and based on one or more policies in subsection (4) below.
3. The City may deny a permit/license if it finds that the proposal would result in a probable, significant, adverse environmental impact for which there are no reasonable mitigating measures and if the denial is based on one or more policies identified in subsection (4) below.
4. The following policies are the basis for exercising authority under this section:
a. The City will use all the practical means to ensure that the State and its citizens:
i. Fulfill their responsibilities to future generations as trustees of the environment;
ii. Provide a safe, healthful, productive, and aesthetically and culturally pleasing environment.
iii. Make the most beneficial use of the environment without degrading it, risking their health or safety, or causing other undesirable or unintended consequences by their actions;
iv. Preserve important historic, cultural, and natural places and things;
v. Maintain a diverse environment;
vi. Achieve a balance between population and resources permitting high standards of living and a sharing of life’s amenities; and
vii. Conserve natural resources.
b. Everyone has a fundamental and inalienable right to a healthful environment and a concomitant responsibility to preserve and improve it.
c. All City ordinances, rules, policies, and actions shall be construed consistently with these policies.