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<br /> <br />Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program <br />Chapter 2 21 <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 21 of 339 <br />purposes such as flood or irrigation water storage, erosion control, power <br />generation, or collection of sediment or debris. <br />25. "Degradation" as it pertains to riverine morphology means the lowering of a <br />streambed due to such factors as increased scouring. <br />26. "Development" means a use consisting of the construction or exterior alteration of <br />structures, dredging, drilling, dumping, filling; removal of any sand, gravel or <br />minerals; bulkheading; driving of pilings; placing of obstructions; interior building <br />improvements that do not change the use or occupancy; or any project of a <br />permanent or temporary nature that interferes with the normal public use of the <br />surface of the waters overlying lands subject to the Shoreline Management Act at <br />any stage state of water level. Residential development includes single-family <br />development, multi-family development, and the creation of new residential lots <br />through subdivision. <br />27. "Development regulations" means the controls placed on development or land <br />uses by a county or city, including, but not limited to, zoning ordinances, critical <br />areas ordinances, all portions of a shoreline master program other than goals and <br />policies approved or adopted under RCW Chapter 90.58, planned unit development <br />ordinances, subdivision ordinances, and binding site plan ordinances, together with <br />any amendments thereto. <br />28. "Ecological functions" or "shoreline functions" means the work performed or <br />role played by the physical, chemical, and biological processes that contribute to the <br />maintenance of the aquatic and terrestrial environments that constitute the <br />shoreline's natural ecosystem. See WAC 173-26-201(2)(c). <br />29. "Ecological restoration" see definition for "restore.” <br />30. "Ecologically intact shorelines" means those shoreline areas that retain the <br />majority of their natural shoreline functions, as evidenced by the shoreline <br />configuration and the presence of native vegetation, and provide valuable functions for <br />the larger aquatic and terrestrial environments which could be lost or significantly <br />reduced by human development. Ecologically intact shoreline areas range from larger <br />reaches that may include multiple properties to small areas located within a single <br />property and are generally free of structural shoreline modifications, structures, and <br />intensive human uses. <br />31. "Ecosystem-wide processes" means the suite of naturally occurring physical and <br />geologic processes of erosion, transport, and deposition; and specific chemical <br />processes that shape landforms within a specific shoreline ecosystem and <br />determine both the types of habitat and the associated ecological functions. <br />32. "Enhancement" means actions performed within an existing degraded shoreline, <br />critical area, and/or buffer to intentionally increase or augment one or more