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<br /> <br />Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program <br />Chapter 6 105 <br />March 7, 2016 <br />Kittitas County Board of County Commissioners Shoreline Master Program Adopting Ordinance <br />Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program Exhibit A | March 2016 | Page 105 of 339 <br />Administrator shall review a proposal for design, layout, and operation of the use <br />and shall make specific findings that the use qualifies as a water-dependent use. <br />2. Non-water-oriented commercial uses are prohibited in the shoreline unless the use <br />provides significant public benefit with respect to the objective of the Act such as <br />providing public access and ecological restoration, and the commercial use is: <br />a. Part of a mixed use project that includes a water-dependent use; or <br />b. Proposed on a site where navigability is severely limited. <br />3. Commercial development shall not result in a net loss of ecological functions that <br />have significant adverse impacts to other shoreline uses, resources and values, <br />such as navigation, recreation, and public access. <br />4. Public access and ecological restoration should be considered as potential <br />mitigation of impacts to shoreline resources and values for all water-related or water- <br />dependent development unless such improvements are demonstrated to be <br />infeasible or inappropriate. <br />5. Only those portions of water-dependent commercial uses that require over-water <br />facilities shall be permitted to locate waterward of the OHWM, provided they are <br />located on pilings or other open-work structures, and they are limited to the minimum <br />size necessary to support the structures intended use. <br />6. Non-water-dependent commercial uses shall not be allowed over-water except in <br />limited instances where they are appurtenant and necessary to support water- <br />dependent uses. <br />6.7 Dredging and dredge material disposal <br />A. Policies <br />1. Dredging material disposal on land away from the shoreline is generally preferred <br />over open water disposal. <br />2. Dredging waterward of the OHWM for the primary purpose of obtaining fill material <br />should not be allowed, except when the material is necessary for the restoration of <br />ecological functions. <br />3. Disposal of dredge material on shorelands or wetlands within a river’s channel <br />migration zone is discouraged. <br />B. Regulations <br />1. Dredging and dredge material disposal shall be done in a manner that avoids or <br />minimizes significant ecological impacts. Impacts that cannot be avoided should be <br />mitigated in a manner that assures no net loss of shoreline ecological functions.