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<br /> <br />Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program <br />Chapter 3 34 <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 34 of 339 <br />owners, tourists, and second home owners. <br />2. Support uses that contribute to the region’s economy while maintaining the qualities <br />and functions of the shorelines, flood prone areas and channel migration zones. <br />B. Objectives <br />1. Protect existing agricultural and commercial forest land uses and provide for new <br />environmentally sensitive resource-based development. <br />2. Develop the recreational industry along shorelines in a manner that will enhance <br />public enjoyment of the shorelines and provide an economic benefit to the <br />community. <br />3. Ensure that any economic activity taking place in the shoreline environment <br />operates in a manner that protects shoreline ecological functions and processes. <br />Minimize and mitigate unavoidable impacts. <br />4. Encourage appropriate new water-dependent, water-related, or water-enjoyment <br />activities along shorelines not prone to flooding. <br />3.4 Public access element <br />A. Goals <br />1. Develop and maintain a network of safe, convenient and diversified access <br />opportunities for the public to enjoy the physical and aesthetic qualities of the <br />shorelines of Kittitas County. <br />2. Recognize the rights of private property owners. <br />B. Objectives <br />1. Promote and enhance the public interest with regard to rights to access waters held <br />in public trust by the state, while protecting private property rights and public safety. <br />2. Encourage incorporation of shoreline access into private and public shoreline use <br />and development proposals. Allow private access developed for residential <br />development to be limited to owners within that development. <br />3. Encourage the acquisition of suitable upland shoreline properties to provide public <br />access to publicly-owned shorelines. Prioritize shoreline reaches with limited access <br />opportunities, where public access is compatible with the shoreline environment. <br />4. Encourage the development of additional public access to the shoreline on lands <br />owned by the county, state, and federal government and through public easements.