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1.3 <br />1.4 <br />1.5 <br />1.6 <br />1.7 <br />1.8 <br />1.9 <br />1.10 <br />Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program <br />1. Framework, purpose, principles and applicability <br />Sections <br />1.1 The Shoreline Management Act1.2 Scope and jurisdiction of the Shoreline Master Program <br />Purpose and intent of the Shoreline Master Program <br />Title and reference <br />Public involvement process, advisory committee and agency coordination <br />Relationship to other plans <br />Applicability <br />Governing principles <br />Severability <br />Effective date <br />1.1 The Shoreline Management Act <br />The Washington State Shoreline Management Act (also referred to in this document as <br />SMA or the Act) was passed by the legislature in 1971and adopted by a vote of <br />Washington's citizens in a 1 972 referendum (RCW 90.58). The goal of the Shoreline <br />Management Act is "to prevent the inherent harm in an uncoordinated and piecemeal <br />development of the state's shorelines." The Act also recognizes that "shorelines are <br />among the most valuable and fragile" of the state's resources. <br />The Act provides for the management and protection of the state's shoreline resources <br />by requiring planning for their reasonable and appropriate use. The area regulated <br />under the Act includes lands within two hundred (200) feet of designated shorelines as <br />well as certain wetlands, river deltas, floodways and floodplains associated with such <br />shorelines. <br />The SMA establishes a balance of authority between local and state governments. <br />Cities and counties have the primary review responsibility for development along their <br />shorelines, and the state (through the Washington State Department of Ecology) has <br />authority to review local master programs and local shoreline development permit <br />decisions. <br />1.2 Scope and jurisdiction of the Shoreline Master Program <br />The Shoreline Management Act (SMA) applies to all 39 counties and more than 200 cities <br />in Washington State that have "shorelines of the state" (RCW 90.58.030(2)) within their <br />jurisdictional boundaries. Shorelines of the state include:. All marine waters;o Streams with greater than twenty cubic feet per second (20 cfs) mean annual <br />flow;. Lakes twenty (20) acres or larger;o Upland areas called shorelands that extend two hundred (200) feet landward, in <br />all directions on a horizontal plane, from the edge of the ordinary high water mark <br />Chapter 1 <br />March 7,2016 <br />I