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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Page 10 <br />Type of <br />Land Use Land Use Use Intensity Description Acres1 Zoning <br />Classification Acres1 <br />Urban Urban Intense <br />Incorporated Cities <br />and their Urban <br />Growth Areas <br />16,047.3 <br />Agriculture 3 80.2 <br />Forest and Range 606.8 <br />General Commercial 119.1 <br />General Industrial 592.5 <br />Highway Commercial 83.4 <br />Historic Trailer Court 24.2 <br />Incorporated City 9,986.4 <br />Light Industrial 1,641.1 <br />Limited Commercial 3.8 <br />Planned Unit <br />Development 88.7 <br />Residential 140.4 <br />Rural 3 423.6 <br />Rural 5 10.1 <br />Urban Residential 2,247.0 <br />Section Total: 16,047.3 <br />County Total: 1,481,813.7 1,481,813.7 <br />1 Acreages are approximate. <br />2 Mineral lands include lands zoned Commercial Agriculture, Commercial Forest, Agriculture 20, or Forest & Range. <br />The totals in this table are subject to change based on improved accuracy of GIS shapefiles and assessor’s information. <br /> Future Challenges: Nonconforming Lots <br />Nonconforming lots, i.e. lots that do not meet the County’s current zoning standards, present a challenge to <br />the County’s plans to preserve the rural character of the County outside Urban Growth Areas. A recent count <br />yielded approximately 5,900 nonconforming lots that fall below the minimum lot size for the rural areas. <br />These are legally created lots that were created prior to the existence of subdivision rules, through previous <br />zoning and subdivision standards that allowed smaller lots, and through a process known as “administrative <br />segregation” that no longer exists in Kittitas County. <br />Because these lots were created legally, they are theoretically capable of being developed in the future. <br />However, in practical terms, the majority of these lots are unlikely to be able to meet existing development <br />standards, ranging from legal access (many are landlocked) to meeting the minimum lot size necessary for <br />the provision of septic systems and a well (since neither public water nor sewer are available). <br />Addressing the issue of nonconforming lots is a challenge that the County recognizes will need a long-term, <br />incentive-based approach. Over time the County may consider inclusion of those nonconforming lots most <br />capable of future development for inclusion as sending areas in a Transfer of Development Rights program <br />or some similar incentive program.