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b. Proposed on a site where navigability is severely limited. <br />3. Commercial development shall not result in a net loss of ecological functions that have <br />significant adverse impacts to other shoreline uses, resources and values, such as <br />navigation, recreation, and public access. <br />4. Public access and ecological restoration should be considered as potential mitigation of <br />impacts to shoreline resources and values for all water-related or water- dependent <br />development unless such improvements are demonstrated to be infeasible or <br />inappropriate. <br />5. Only those portions of water-dependent commercial uses that require over-water facilities <br />shall be permitted to locate waterward of the OHWM, provided they are located on pilings <br />or other open-work structures, and they are limited to the minimum size necessary to <br />support the structures intended use. <br />6. Non-water-dependent commercial uses shall not be allowed over-water except in limited <br />instances where they are appurtenant and necessary to support water-dependent uses. <br />(Ord. 2016-006, 2016) <br /> <br />17B.06.070 Dredging and dredge material disposal. <br />A. Policies. Pursuant to RCW 36.70A.480, the dredging and dredge material disposal policies of the <br />2016 2021 Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program shall be considered as policies of the <br />Kittitas County Comprehensive Plan. <br />B. Regulations. <br />1. Dredging and dredge material disposal shall be done in a manner that avoids or minimizes <br />significant ecological impacts. Impacts that cannot be avoided should be mitigated in a <br />manner that assures no net loss of shoreline ecological functions. <br />2. New uses and developments should be sited and designed to avoid or, where avoidance is <br />not possible, to minimize the need for new and/or maintenance dredging. <br />3. Dredging for the purpose of establishing, expanding, relocating, or reconfiguring <br />navigation channels and basins shall be allowed where necessary for assuring safe and <br />efficient accommodation of navigational uses and then only when significant ecological <br />impacts are minimized and mitigated. <br />4. Maintenance dredging of established navigation channels and basins shall be restricted to <br />maintaining previously dredged and/or existing authorized locations, depths and widths. <br />5. All applications for substantial development permits that include dredging shall supply a <br />dredging plan that includes the following information: <br />a. The quantity of material to be removed; <br />b. The method of removal; <br />c. Location of spoil disposal sites and measures that will be taken to protect the <br />environment around them; and <br />d. Plans for the protection and restoration of the shoreline environment during and after <br />dredging operations. <br />6. A dredging operation judged by the Administrator to be insufficient for protection or <br />restoration of the shoreline environment shall cause denial of a substantial development <br />permit. <br />7. Dredging in surface waters shall be allowed only where necessary because of existing <br />navigation needs, habitat restoration or improvement, maintenance or construction of <br />water-dependent uses.