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<br />Kittitas County Board of County Commissioners Shoreline Master Program Adopting Ordinance
<br />Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program Exhibit D | March 2016 | Page 234 of 339
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<br />17B.02.580 Vessel.
<br />17B.02.585 Acronym list.
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<br />17B.02.005 Generally.
<br />The terms used throughout this title shall be defined and interpreted as indicated below. When
<br />consistent with the context, words used in the present tense shall include the future; the singular
<br />shall include the plural, and the plural the singular. Definitions established by WAC 173 have
<br />been incorporated herein; and should these definitions in the WAC be amended, the most
<br />current WAC definition shall apply.
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<br />17B.02.010 Act.
<br />"Act" means the Washington State Shoreline Management Act, RCW Chapter 90.58.
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<br />17B.02.020 Administrator.
<br />"Administrator" means the director of the Kittitas County Community Development Services or
<br />designee.
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<br />17B.02.030 Agricultural activities.
<br />"Agricultural activities" means agricultural uses and practices including, but not limited to:
<br />Producing, breeding, or increasing agricultural products; rotating and changing agricultural
<br />crops; allowing land used for agricultural activities to lie fallow in which it is plowed and tilled but
<br />left unseeded; allowing land used for agricultural activities to lie dormant as a result of adverse
<br />agricultural market conditions; allowing land used for agricultural activities to lie dormant
<br />because the land is enrolled in a local, state, or federal conservation program, or the land is
<br />subject to a conservation easement; conducting agricultural operations; maintaining, repairing,
<br />and replacing agricultural equipment; maintaining, repairing, and replacing agricultural facilities,
<br />provided that the replacement facility is no closer to the shoreline than the original facility; and
<br />maintaining agricultural lands under production or cultivation.
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<br />17B.02.040 Agricultural products.
<br />"Agricultural products" includes, but is not limited to, horticultural, viticultural, floricultural,
<br />vegetable, fruit, berry, grain, hops, hay, straw, turf, sod, seed, and apiary products; feed or
<br />forage for livestock; Christmas trees; hybrid cottonwood and similar hardwood trees grown as
<br />crops and harvested within twenty (20) years of planting; and livestock including both the
<br />animals themselves and animal products including, but not limited to, meat, upland finfish,
<br />poultry and poultry products, and dairy products.
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<br />17B.02.050 Agricultural equipment and agricultural facilities.
<br />"Agricultural equipment" and "agricultural facilities" includes, but is not limited to:
<br />1. The following used in agricultural operations: Equipment; machinery; constructed shelters;
<br />buildings and ponds; fences; upland finfish rearing facilities; water diversion, withdrawal,
<br />conveyance, and use equipment and facilities including, but not limited to, pumps, pipes,
<br />tapes, canals, ditches, and drains;
<br />2. Corridors and facilities for transporting personnel, livestock, and equipment to, from, and
<br />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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<br />17B.02.060 Agricultural land.
<br />"Agricultural land" means those specific land areas on which agricultural activities are
<br />conducted as of the date of adoption of a local master program pursuant to these guidelines as
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