23.60A.904

"Best available science" means the science and technical information requirements described in WAC 173-26-201(2)(a). "Best management practices" means actions or techniques that have consistently shown results superior to those achieved with other means and that are taken to avoid, minimize and reduce the impacts to habitat ecological functions. "BMP." See "Best management practices" "Boat or Beach Club." See "Yacht club." "Boat moorage" means a recreational or commercial marina or moorage accessory to a residential use. "Boat yard." See "Vessel repair, minor." "Boating facility, multifamily" means a system of piers and floats designed to moor vessels to serve residential development of 5 or more units. "Bottom barrier" means sheets of material, composed of synthetic or natural fibers, used to cover and kill plants growing on the bottom of a water body by depriving plants of sunlight. "Breakwater" means a protective structure built offshore to protect harbor areas, moorages, navigation, beaches or bluffs from wave action. "Bridge" means a structure carrying a path, street, railway or rail transit over water, including necessary support and accessory structures. "Bulkhead" means a retaining wall constructed parallel to the shore whose primary purpose is to hold or prevent sliding of soil caused by erosion or wave action or to protect the perimeter of a fill. (Ord. 124105 , § 3, 2013.)