A couple of citizens testified against this exception to the rules citing inadequacies in the city and consultant reports. The stream buffer reduction is inadequate to protect the water quality and habitat of the stream. The proposed home is on soils and slope prone to sliding. The City thinks it is dangerous enough to require indemnification contract with the owner so they cannot sue the City if there is a landslide. The consultant closing paragraph on a report says this: “Ultimately it is the owner's choice to develop and live in a geologically hazardous area, and therefore future consequences, both anticipated and unknown, are soley the responsibility of the owner. By using this report for development of the subject property, the owner must accept and understand that is not possible to fully anticipate all inherent risks of development within a potentially geologically hazardous critical area..."
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