conservation of significant riparian areas, wetlands and other water-related wildlife habitat areas <br />included on the city’s adopted Goal 5 inventory. In order to conserve these resources and the <br />biological systems they contain and support, the overlay zone not only conserves the physical <br />resources but also protects the water quality within the resource areas as a fundamental and <br />essential requirement for continued survival of these biological systems. <br />EC 9.8300(1)(d) Purpose of a Planned Unit Development Create a sustainable environment <br />that includes preservation of existing natural resources and the opportunity to enhance habitat <br />areas… <br />VERY IMPORTANT!!! As of now, there is little we know of that we can use to protect the trees, <br />other than the above codes. Due to a huge oversight and lack of due diligence, when the Clear <br />and Objective building codes were revised 2 years ago, they neglected to provide protection for <br />trees on land that is in the Goal 5 inventory, and instead excluded the protections for those areas <br />as they believed that they were already protected under other codes.