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<br /> <br />19 <br /> <br />Chapter 17A.02 <br />DEFINITIONS <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />17A.02.010 Generally. <br />Certain terms and words used in this title are defined in the following sections. Words used in the <br />present tense include the future; words in the singular number include the plural number; and words <br />in the plural number include the singular number. The word “shall” is mandatory. <br /> <br />17A.02.020 Adjacent. <br />“Adjacent" to a critical area means the project area is located: <br />1. anywhere within the standard critical area buffer and/or standard building setback; <br />2. anywhere within three hundred (300) feet from a fish and wildlife habitat conservation area <br />or wetland; or <br />3. anywhere within two hundred (200) feet from a critical aquifer recharge area. <br /> <br />17A.02.030 Agricultural Activities. <br />“Agricultural activities” means agricultural uses and practices including, but not limited to: Producing, <br />breeding, or increasing agricultural products; rotating and changing agricultural crops; allowing land <br />used for agricultural activities to lie dormant; allowing land used for agricultural activities to lie <br />dormant as a result of adverse agricultural market conditions; allowing land used for agricultural <br />activities to lie dormant because the land is enrolled in a local, state, or federal conservation <br />program, or the land is subject to a conservation easement; maintaining, repairing, and replacing <br />agricultural equipment; maintaining, repairing, and replacing agricultural facilities, provided that the <br />replacement facility is no closer to the shoreline and/or critical area than the original facility; and <br />maintaining agricultural lands under production or cultivation. <br />17A.02.040 Agricultural Activities, High Intensity. <br />“High intensity agricultural activities” are defined as: dairies, animal feed lots, nurseries, <br />greenhouses, and like uses which are commercially operated. <br />17A.02.050 Agricultural Land. <br />"Agricultural land" means land primarily devoted to the commercial production of horticultural, <br />viticultural, floricultural, dairy, apiary, vegetable, or animal products or of berries, grain, hay, straw, <br />turf, seed, Christmas trees not subject to the excise tax imposed by *RCW 84.33.100 through <br />84.33.140, finfish in upland hatcheries, or livestock, and that has long-term commercial significance <br />for agricultural production. <br /> <br />17A.02.060 Alluvial Fan. <br />"Alluvial fan" or "Alluvial fan hazard area" means a low, outspread, relatively flat-to- gentle sloping <br />landscape surface composed of eroded alluvial materials deposited by a stream at the transitional <br />area between valley floodplains and steep mountain slopes. Channel pattern in the alluvial fan is <br />highly variable, often dependent on substrate size and age of the landform. Channels may change <br />course frequently, resulting in a multi-branched stream network. Channels can also be deeply <br />incised within highly erodible alluvial material. <br /> <br />17A.02.070 Alteration. <br />“Alteration” means any human induced change in an existing condition of a critical area or its buffer. <br />Alteration includes, but is not limited to, grading, filling, channelizing dredging, clearing (vegetation), <br />construction, compaction, excavation, or any other activity that changes the character of the critical <br />area. <br />