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<br />Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program
<br />Chapter 2 18
<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 18 of 339
<br />2. Definitions
<br />The terms used throughout this Program shall be defined and interpreted as indicated
<br />below. When consistent with the context, words used in the present tense shall include
<br />the future; the singular shall include the plural, and the plural the singular. Definitions
<br />established by WAC 173 have been incorporated herein; and should these definitions in
<br />the WAC be amended, the most current WAC definition shall apply.
<br />1. "Act" means the Washington State Shoreline Management Act, RCW Chapter
<br />90.58.
<br />2. "Administrator" means the director of the Kittitas County Community Development
<br />Services or designee.
<br />3. "Agricultural activities" means agricultural uses and practices including, but not
<br />limited to: Producing, breeding, or increasing agricultural products; rotating and
<br />changing agricultural crops; allowing land used for agricultural activities to lie fallow
<br />in which it is plowed and tilled but left unseeded; allowing land used for agricultural
<br />activities to lie dormant as a result of adverse agricultural market conditions; allowing
<br />land used for agricultural activities to lie dormant because the land is enrolled in a
<br />local, state, or federal conservation program, or the land is subject to a conservation
<br />easement; conducting agricultural operations; maintaining, repairing, and replacing
<br />agricultural equipment; maintaining, repairing, and replacing agricultural facilities,
<br />provided that the replacement facility is no closer to the shoreline than the original
<br />facility; and maintaining agricultural lands under production or cultivation.
<br />4. "Agricultural products" includes, but is not limited to, horticultural, viticultural,
<br />floricultural, vegetable, fruit, berry, grain, hops, hay, straw, turf, sod, seed, and
<br />apiary products; feed or forage for livestock; Christmas trees; hybrid cottonwood and
<br />similar hardwood trees grown as crops and harvested within twenty (20) years of
<br />planting; and livestock including both the animals themselves and animal products
<br />including, but not limited to, meat, upland finfish, poultry and poultry products, and
<br />dairy products.
<br />5. "Ag ricultural equipment" and "agricultural facilities" includes, but is not limited
<br />to:
<br />1. The following used in agricultural operations: Equipment; machinery; constructed
<br />shelters; buildings and ponds; fences; upland finfish rearing facilities; water
<br />diversion, withdrawal, conveyance, and use equipment and facilities including,
<br />but not limited to, pumps, pipes, tapes, canals, ditches, and drains;
<br />2. Corridors and facilities for transporting personnel, livestock, and equipment to,
<br />from, and within agricultural lands;
<br />3. Farm residences and associated equipment, lands, and facilities; and
<br />4. Roadside stands and on-farm markets for marketing fruit or vegetables.
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