The city adopts by reference the definitions of the Shoreline Management Act of 1971 as set forth in RCW 90.58.030, and the Department of Ecology definitions as set forth in WAC 173-26-020 and 173-27-030, as they now exist or may hereafter be amended. In addition to the definitions adopted by reference, the following terms shall have the following meanings as used in this chapter, which shall be controlling in shoreline jurisdiction, notwithstanding any inconsistent definition in any other chapter of this code.
(Ord. 1252 § 5 (Exh. A), 2021)
A. 
"Commercial development"
means any activity involving or facilities for wholesale or retail trade, services and business activities, including by way of illustration hotels, motels, shops, stores, restaurants and offices, but not including manufacturing or residential uses.
B. 
"Development"
means a use consisting of the construction or exterior alteration of structures; dredging; drilling; dumping; filling; removal of any sand, gravel, or minerals; bulkheading; driving of piling; placing of obstructions; or any project of a permanent or temporary nature which interferes with the normal public use of the surface of the waters overlying lands subject to the Act at any stage of water level.
1. 
"Development"
does not include dismantling or removing structures if there is no other associated development or redevelopment.
C. 
"Channel migration zone (CMZ)"
means the area along a river within which the channel(s) can be reasonably predicted to migrate over time as a result of natural and normally occurring hydrological and related processes when considered with the characteristics of the river and its surroundings as delineated on the Snoqualmie River Channel Migration Area Map, contained in Channel Migration in the Three Forks Area of the Snoqualmie River (King County Department of Natural Resources, Surface Water Management Division, Seattle, WA, 1996), which is hereby incorporated herein by this reference.
D. 
"Director"
means the department head of the community development department, or equivalent position.
E. 
"Dredging"
means the removal of earth from the bottom of a stream, river, lake, bay or other body of water for the purpose of deepening a navigational channel or sustaining a use of the bottom materials for landfill.
F. 
"High intensity active recreation facilities"
means facilities including soccer, football, baseball, softball or other team sport fields; complexes of two or more outdoor tennis, basketball, volleyball or other sport courts; indoor sports or recreation facilities; golf courses; swimming pools, running tracks; bicycle parks or obstacle courses, outdoor skateboard parks larger than one-quarter acre in size; other active recreation facilities of similar nature, scale or impacts; and parking and park support facilities such as restrooms and concession stands.
G. 
"Impervious surface area"
means any nonvertical surface artificially covered or hardened so as to prevent or impede the percolation of water into the soil mantle including, but not limited to, rooftops, swimming pools, paved or graveled roads and walkways or parking areas, and excluding landscaping and surface water retention/detention facilities.
H. 
"Institutional use"
means a facility providing educational, governmental, religious, or community services to the general public such as libraries, churches, municipal buildings, museums, and historic buildings and sites. Institutional facilities may be owned and operated by either public or private entities.
I. 
"Light industrial"
means any activity involving or facility for manufacturing, processing, packaging or storing finished or semi-finished goods.
J. 
"Low intensity active recreation facilities"
means facilities including no more than one outdoor tennis, basketball, volleyball or other sport court; outdoor skateboard parks less than one-quarter acre in size; and children's play structures, along with parking and park support facilities such as restrooms and picnic facilities.
K. 
"Recreation"
means any activity intended primarily for the refreshment of body and mind through forms of play, amusement and relaxation.
L. 
"Residential development"
means any residential use, including single-family dwellings, accessory dwellings, multifamily dwellings and second story residential over a nonresidential use, and also includes subdivision for residential uses.
M. 
"Riverwalk"
means elements associated with the Snoqualmie Riverwalk Master Plan 2015.
N. 
"Shoreline map and descriptions"
means Map A.1 and Descriptions A.2 in Appendix A, Shoreline Maps, of the Snoqualmie Shoreline Master Program.
O. 
"Shoreline master program"
means the Snoqualmie Shoreline Master Program 2021, its map exhibits, and any approved updates or amendments thereto.
P. 
"Shoreline setback"
means the lateral distance measured landward from the ordinary high water mark (OHWM) of a shoreline.
Q. 
"Utility"
means any service which produces or carries electric power, gas, water, stormwater, sewage, communications signals or oil.
(Ord. 1252 § 5 (Exh. A), 2021)