In a municipal corporation with a tree management plan and in an
existing population center designated in a county master plan that
has been adopted to conform to the Economic Growth, Resource Protection,
and Planning Act of 1992, or in any other designated area approved by the Department,
the use of:
(a)
Street trees as a permissible step in the priority sequence
for afforestation or reforestation and with a mature canopy coverage
may be granted full credit as a mitigation technique; and
(b)
Acquisition of an off-site protection easement on existing forested
areas not currently protected in perpetuity as a mitigation technique,
in which case the afforestation or reforestation credit granted may
not exceed 50% of the area of forest cover protected;