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Kittitas County Shoreline Master Program <br />5. Where permitted above ground, power poles and transmission towers are not <br />subject to height limits but shall not be higher than necessary to address public <br />safety and meet federal and state standards. <br />6. The following types of development are not subject to side yard setbacks, provided <br />that they are constructed and maintained in a manner that minimizes adverse <br />impacts on shoreline functions and processes, and provided further that they comply <br />with all applicable regulations in Sections 5.2 Environmental protection and critical <br />areas and 5.5 Shoreline buffers and vegetation conservation: <br />a. Those portions of approved water-dependent development that require a location <br />watennrard of the OHWM of rivers and lakes, associated wetlands and/or within <br />their associated buffers. <br />b. Underground utilities. <br />c. Modifications to existing development that are necessary to comply with <br />environmental requirements of any agency, when othenrvise consistent with this <br />Program, provided that the Administrator determines that the facility cannot meet <br />the dimensional standard and accomplish the purpose for which it is intended <br />and the facility is located, designed, and constructed to meet specified <br />dimensional standards to the maximum extent feasible, and the modification is in <br />conformance with the provisions of Section 7 .2.3 Prior development and Section <br />7.2.4 Non-conformance. <br />d. Roads, railways and other essential public facilities that must cross shorelines <br />and are necessary to access approved water-dependent development. <br />e. Stairs and walkways not greater than five (5)feet in width or eighteen (18) inches <br />in height above grade, except for railings.f. An essential public facility or public utility where the Administrator determines <br />that no feasible alternative location will accommodate the use. <br />g. Shared moorages shall not be subject to side yard setbacks when located on or <br />adjacent to a property line shared in common by the project proponents. <br />7. Common line shoreline buffer: To ensure new single-family dwellings have similar, <br />though not necessarily equivalent, shoreline views as existing development, a <br />common line shoreline buffer - determined by averaging the buffers for each of the <br />adjacent residential dwelling units on the shoreline - may be utilized for the <br />development of a single-family dwelling where: <br />a. The lot was a legal lot of record in place on the date of adoption of this Program; <br />b. The lot is located adjacent to existing residential dwelling units on both adjacent <br />shoreline lots; <br />c. The lot is located within an urban growth area, planned unit development, Limited <br />Area of More lntense Rural Development (LAMIRD), rural recreation zoning <br />district, or cluster development; <br />d. There is less than fifteen (15) feet of elevation difference between the vacant lot <br />and adjacent lots and less than two hundred fifty (250) cubic yards of grade or fill <br />is required to accommodate use of the common line shoreline buffer; and <br />Chapter 6 <br />March 7,2016 <br />136