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Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program 77,78."Public interest" means the interest shared by the citizens of the state or community at large in the affairs of government, or some interest by which their rights or liabilities are affected including, but not limited to, an effect on public property or on health, safety, or general welfare resulting from a use or development. 7&.29. "Qualified professional" means a person with experience and training with expertise appropriate for the relevant subject. A qualified professional must have obtained a B.S. or B.A. degree or have appropriate education and experience in biology, soil science, engineering, environmental studies, fisheries, geology, geomorphology, or related field. 79.80.-"Rehabilitation" means a type of restoration action intended to repair natural or historic functions and processes. Activities could involve breaching a dike to reconnect wetlands to a floodplain or other activities that restore the natural water regime. 8'&81. "Restore," "restoration" or "ecological restoration" means the re- establishment or upgrading of impaired ecological shoreline processes or functions. This may be accomplished through measures including, but not limited to, re- vegetation, removal of intrusive shoreline structures and removal or treatment of toxic materials. Restoration does not imply a requirement for returning the shoreline area to aboriginal or pre-European settlement conditions. g+82. 'Riverine erosion hazard areas" are located within the lateral extent of likely watercourse channel movement due to bank destabilization and erosion, rapid incision, and shifts in location of watercourse channels. Riverine erosion hazard areas are also referred to as channel migration zones (CMZs). 8*Q"Setback" means the distance a building or structure is placed behind a specified limit such as a lot line or shoreline buffer. 8+84. "Shall" means a mandate; the action must be done. 84,85. "Shorelands" or "shoreland areas" means those lands extending landward for two hundred (200)feet in all directions as measured on a horizontal plane from the OHWM; floodways and contiguous floodplain areas landward two hundred (200)feet from such floodways; and all wetlands and river deltas associated with the streams, lakes, and tidal waters which are subject to the provisions of this chapter; the same to be designated as to location by the Washington State Department of Ecology. 1. Any county or city may determine that portion of a one hundred-(1O0)-year- floodplain to be included in its master program as long as such portion includes, as a minimum, the floodway and the adjacent land extending landward two hundred (200) feet therefrom. 2. Any city or county may also include in its master program land necessary for buffers for critical areas, as defined in RCW Chapter 36.704, that occur within shorelines of the state, provided that forest practices regulated under RCW Chapter 2 March 7,2016 28