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Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program hazard reduction measures may consist of non-structural measures, such as setbacks, land use controls, wetland restoration, dike removal, use relocation, biotechnical measures, and stormwater management programs as well as structural measures such as dikes, levees, revetments, floodwalls, channel realignment, and elevation of structures consistent with the National Flood lnsurance Program. A. Policies 1. Minimize future use and development in flood prone areas in order to protect public health and private property. 2. Prohibit new or expanding shoreline uses or development in the shoreline including subdivision of land that would likely require structural flood control works within a river, channel migration zone, floodway, or lakes. 3. Limit flood control works in the shoreline to those necessary to protect existing development where non-structural flood hazard reduction measures are infeasible. 4. Encourage non-structural and non-regulatory methods to protect, enhance, and restore shoreline ecological functions and processes and other shoreline resources as an alternative to structural flood hazard reduction measures and structures. Non- regulatory and non-structural methods may include public facility and resource planning, land or easement acquisition, education, voluntary protection and enhancement projects, or incentive programs. 5. Where feasible, flood hazard reduction measures should be bioengineered to enhance ecological functions, create a more natural appearance, improve ecological processes, and provide more flexibility for long{erm shoreline management. Such features may include, but not be limited to, vegetated berms; and vegetative stabilization, including brush matting and buffer strips and retention of existing trees, shrubs and grasses on banks. 6. Plan and design flood hazard reduction measures in a manner consistent with applicable watershed management plans, flood hazard mitigation plans, local comprehensive planning efforts, the SMA and WAC 173-26. 7 . Assure that flood hazard reduction measures result in no net loss of ecological functions and ecosystem-wide processes associated with rivers, streams and lakes. 8. Locate, design, construct and maintain flood control measures so their resultant effects on geo-hydraulic shoreline processes will not cause significant damage to other properties or shoreline resources, and so that the physical integrity of the shoreline corridor is maintained. Chapter 5 March 7,2016 88