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Kittitas County, WA § 17A.02.010 CRITICAL AREAS § 17A.02.060 Downloaded from https://ecode360.com/KI6857 on 2025-05-15 CHAPTER 17A.02 DEFINITIONS § 17A.02.010. Generally. Certain terms and words used in this title are defined in the following sections. Words used in the present tense include the future; words in the singular number include the plural number; and words in the plural number include the singular number. The word "shall" is mandatory. (Ord. 2021-016, 2021) § 17A.02.020. Adjacent. Reserved "Adjacent" to a critical area means the project area is located: 1. anywhere within the standard critical area buffer and/or standard building setback; 2. anywhere within three hundred (300) feet from a fish and wildlife habitat conservation area or wetland; or 3. anywhere within two hundred (200) feet from a critical aquifer recharge area. (Ord. 2021-016, 2021) § 17A.02.030. Agricultural activities. "Agricultural activities" means agricultural uses and practices including, but not limited to: Producing, breeding, or increasing agricultural products; rotating and changing agricultural crops; allowing land used for agricultural activities to lie dormant; allowing land used for agricultural activities to lie dormant as a result of adverse agricultural market conditions; allowing land used for agricultural activities to lie dormant because the land is enrolled in a local, state, or federal conservation program, or the land is subject to a conservation easement; maintaining, repairing, and replacing agricultural equipment; maintaining, repairing, and replacing agricultural facilities, provided that the replacement facility is no closer to the shoreline and/or critical area than the original facility; and maintaining agricultural lands under production or cultivation. (Ord. 2021-016, 2021) § 17A.02.040. Agricultural activities, high intensity. "High intensity agricultural activities" are defined as: dairies, animal feed lots, nurseries, greenhouses, and like uses which are commercially operated. (Ord. 2021-016, 2021) § 17A.02.050. Agricultural land. "Agricultural land" means land primarily devoted to the commercial production of horticultural, viticultural, floricultural, dairy, apiary, vegetable, or animal products or of berries, grain, hay, straw, turf, seed, Christmas trees not subject to the excise tax imposed by *84.33.100 RCW through 84.33.140, finfish in upland hatcheries, or livestock, and that has long-term commercial significance for agricultural production. (Ord. 2021-016, 2021) § 17A.02.060. Alluvial fan. "Alluvial fan" or "Alluvial fan hazard area" means a low, outspread, relatively flat-to-gentle sloping