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areas policy document, coupled with the more specific provisions of this critical areas development <br />ordinance, pursuant to the requirements of Chapter 36.70A RCW. (Ord. 94-22 (part), 1994). <br />17A.03.015 Land use activities to which this chapter applies. <br />Land use activities to which this chapter applies. <br />1. The following land use activities shall be subject to and coordinated with the <br />requirements of this chapter: <br />a. Any activity which is not exempt from a threshold determination under the <br />State Environmental Policy Act, as subject to the threshold exemptions <br />established by the county SEPA ordinance; <br />b. Any activity which requires approval through a public hearing process <br />under county ordinance; <br />c. Rezones; <br />d. Long plats; <br />e. Short plats; <br />f. Shoreline substantial development permits; <br />g. Shoreline conditional uses; <br />h. Shoreline variances; <br />i. Zoning conditional use permits; <br />j. Replats; <br />k. Conversion of forest land to nonforest land uses; <br />l. Filling and draining of Class 1 - 4 wetlands, except as otherwise provided <br />herein; <br />m. New residential building permits on all lots twenty acres or less shall <br />comply with buffer requirements and restrictions in Chapters <br />17A.05 and 17A.08; <br />n. All building permits must comply with Section 17A.05.10, which requires <br />compliance with the county's flood prevention ordinance; <br />o. Building permits. <br />2. Critical area protection which is imposed as a result of any of these listed activities will <br />not be required until existing and ongoing activities cease to exist. Any construction <br />related to the permit, including project related movement of dirt, will trigger protection <br />of critical areas. (Ord. 96-14 (part), 1996; Ord. 95-15 (part), 1995; Ord. 94-22 (part), <br />1994). <br />17A.03.020 Exempt land use activities. <br />Exempt land use activities. The following land use activities are exempt: <br />1. Land use activities regulated administratively, except as provided in Section <br />17A.03.015(a) "land use activities to which this chapter applies", including but not <br />limited to septic tank installation, public or private water conservation projects, and any <br />land use activity which does not require either public hearing approval or is categorically <br />exempt under the State Environmental Policy Act. <br />2. Existing and ongoing agricultural and irrigation activities, including such activities on <br />land or portions of land subject to the nonexempt activities in Section 17A.03.015(a). <br />3. Activities involving artificially created habitat, including but not limited to grass-lined <br />swales, irrigation systems and drainage ditches, farm ponds, detention facilities such as <br />ponds, and landscape features, including any adjacent riparian habitat created or <br />resulting from these activities, except for wetlands or habitat areas created as mitigation.