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Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program for development and use of shorelines within Kittitas County; 2. To manage shorelines in a positive, effective and equitable manner; 3. To assume and carry out the County's responsibilities established by the Act; and 4. To implement RCW 90.58.020 for shorelines of the state: It is the policy of the state to provide for the management of the shorelines of the state by planning for and fostering all reasonable and appropriate uses. Ihrb policyis designed to insure the development of these shorelines in a manner which, while allowing for limited reduction of rights of the public in the navigable waters, will promote and enhance the public interest. This policy contemplates protecting against adverse effects to the public health, the land and its vegetation and wildlife, and the waters of the state and their aquatic life, while protecting generally public rights of navigation and corollary rights incidentalthereto. The legislature declares that the interest of all of the people shall be paramount in the management of shorelines of statewide significance. The department, in adopting guidelines for shorelines of statewide significance, and local government, in developing master programs for shorelines of statewide significance, shall give preference to uses rn the following order of preference which: (1) Recognize and protect the statewide interest over local interest; (2) Preserve the natural character of the shoreline; (3) Result in long term over short term benefit; (4) Protect the resources and ecology of the shoreline; (5) lncrease public access to publicly owned areas of the shorelines; (6) lncrease recreational opportunities for the public in the shoreline; (7) Provide for any other element as defined in RCW 90.58.100 deemed appropriate or necessary. ln the implementation of this policy the public's opportunity to enjoy the physical and aesthetic qualities of natural shorelines of the state shall be preserved to the greatest extent feasible consisfenf with the overall best interest of the state and the people generally. To this end uses shall be preferred which are consistent with control of pollution and prevention of damage to the naturalenvironment or are unique to or dependent upon use of fhe sfafe's shoreline. Alterations of the natural condition of the shorelines of the state, in those limited rnsfances when authorized, shall be given priority for single family resrdenceg ports, shoreline recreational uses including but not limited to parks, marinas, piers, and other improvements facilitating public access to shorelines of the state, industrial and commercial developments which are particularly dependent on their location on or use of the shorelines of the state, and other development that will provide an opportuntty for substantial numbers of the people to enjoy the shorelines of the sfafe. Permifted uses tn the shorelines of the state shall be designed and conducted Chapter 1 March 7,2016 11