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Kittitas County, WA <br />$ r74.02.010 CRITICALAREAS $ 17A.02.060 <br />CHAPTER I7A.O2 <br />DEFINITIONS <br />$ 17A.02.010. Generally. <br />Certain terms and words used in this title are defined in the following sections. Words used in the present <br />tense include the future; words in the singular number include the plural number; and words in the plural <br />number include the singular number. The word "shall" is mandatory. <br />(Ord.202l-016,2021) <br />$ 17A.02.020. Reserved <br />S 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 used <br />for agricultural activities to lie dormant; allowing land used for agricultural activities to lie dormant as <br />a result of adverse agricultural market conditions; allowing land used for agricultural activities to lie <br />dormant because the land is enrolled in a local, state, or federal conservation program, or the land is subject <br />to a conservation easement; maintaining, repairing, and replacing agricultural equipment; maintaining, <br />repairing, and replacing agricultural facilities, provided that the replacement facility is no closer to the <br />shoreline andlor critical area than the original facility; and maintaining agricultural lands under production <br />or cultivation. <br />(Ord.202l-016,2021) <br />S 17A.02.040. Agricultural activitieso high intensity. <br />"High intensity agricultural activities" are defined as: dairies, animal feed lots, nurseries, greenhouses, and <br />like uses which are commercially operated. <br />(Ord. 2021-016,2021) <br />$ 17A.02.050. Agricultural land. <br />"Agricultural land" means land primarily devoted to the commercial production of horticultural, viticultural, <br />floricultural, dairy, apiary, vegetable, or animal products or of berries, grain, hay, straw, turf, seed, <br />Christmas trees not subject to the excise tax imposed by *84.33.100 RCW through 84.33.140, finfish in <br />upland hatcheries, or livestock, and that has long-term commercial significance for agricultural production. <br />(Ord.202l-016,2021) <br />$ 17A.02.060. Alluvial fan. <br />"Alluvial fan" or "Alluvial fan hazatd area" means a low, outspread, relatively flat-to-gentle sloping <br />Downloaded from https://ecode360.com/Kl6857 on 2025 -05 -15