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<br /> <br />Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program <br />Chapter 5 85 <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 85 of 339 <br />A. Policies <br />1. Minimize future use and development in flood prone areas in order to protect public <br />health and private property. <br /> <br />2. Prohibit new or expanding shoreline uses or development in the shoreline including <br />subdivision of land that would likely require structural flood control works within a <br />river, channel migration zone, floodway, or lakes. <br /> <br />3. Limit flood control works in the shoreline to those necessary to protect existing <br />development where non-structural flood hazard reduction measures are infeasible. <br /> <br />4. Encourage non-structural and non-regulatory methods to protect, enhance, and <br />restore shoreline ecological functions and processes and other shoreline resources <br />as an alternative to structural flood hazard reduction measures and structures. Non- <br />regulatory and non-structural methods may include public facility and resource <br />planning, land or easement acquisition, education, voluntary protection and <br />enhancement projects, or incentive programs. <br /> <br />5. Where feasible, flood hazard reduction measures should be bioengineered to <br />enhance ecological functions, create a more natural appearance, improve ecological <br />processes, and provide more flexibility for long-term shoreline management. Such <br />features may include, but not be limited to, vegetated berms; and vegetative <br />stabilization, including brush matting and buffer strips and retention of existing trees, <br />shrubs and grasses on banks. <br /> <br />6. Plan and design flood hazard reduction measures in a manner consistent with <br />applicable watershed management plans, flood hazard mitigation plans, local <br />comprehensive planning efforts, the SMA and WAC 173-26. <br /> <br />7. Assure that flood hazard reduction measures result in no net loss of ecological <br />functions and ecosystem-wide processes associated with rivers, streams and lakes. <br /> <br />8. Locate, design, construct and maintain flood control measures so their resultant <br />effects on geo-hydraulic shoreline processes will not cause significant damage to <br />other properties or shoreline resources, and so that the physical integrity of the <br />shoreline corridor is maintained. <br /> <br />9. Plan for and facilitate returning river and stream corridors to more natural <br />hydrological conditions, recognizing that seasonal flooding is an essential natural <br />process. <br /> <br />10. When evaluating alternate flood control measures, consider the removal or <br />relocation of structures in flood-prone areas.