23.60A.936

"Sale and/or rental of large boats" means a marine retail sales and service use in which boats 30 feet or more in length are rented or sold. If the use includes moorage for the boats being sold or rented, the use is water-dependent. If the use includes boats that are stored on the dry land portion of the site, the use is water-related. "Sale and rental of small boats, boat parts and accessories" means a marine sales and service use in which boats 30 feet or less in length are rented or sold, or goods are rented or sold primarily for use on boats and ships but excluding uses in which fuel for boats and ships is the primary item sold and includes "boat livery" uses where boats and accessories are rented or sold to the general public for use in adjacent waters. Boat liveries are a water-related use. Examples of goods rented or sold include navigational instruments, marine hardware and paints, nautical publications, nautical clothing such as foul-weather gear, and marine engines. If the use includes moorage for the boats being sold or rented, the use is water-dependent. If the use includes boats that are stored on the dry land portion of the site, the use is water-related. "Sales and service, marine" means a commercial use and means one of the following uses: — Sale or rental of large boats; — Marine service station; — Major or minor vessel repair; or — Sale and rental of small boats, boat parts and accessories. "Saltwater" means the waterbodies of Puget Sound, Elliot Bay, Duwamish River, and Shilshole Bay ending at the Hiram M. Chittenden Locks. "Shall" means a mandate; the action must be done. "Shilshole Bay" means the area from NW 80 th Street on the north to the Chittenden Locks. "Ship canal" means the area of the Lake Washington Ship Canal from the Chittenden Locks to the Fremont Bridge. "Shipyard." See "Vessel repair, major." "Shorelands" or "shoreland areas" means those lands extending landward for 200 feet in all directions as measured on a horizontal plane from the ordinary high water mark or mean higher high water; floodways and contiguous floodplain areas landward 200 feet from such floodways; and all wetlands and river deltas associated with the streams, lakes and tidal waters that are subject to the provisions of this Title 23 ; the same to be designated as to location by Ecology. "Floodplain" is synonymous with the one hundred-year floodplain and means that land area susceptible to inundation with a one percent chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year. The limit of this area shall be based upon flood ordinance regulation maps or a reasonable method that meets the objectives of the Shoreline Management Act. "Shoreline area" means all "shorelines of the state" and "shorelands" as defined in RCW 90.58.030. "Shoreline conditional use" means uses identified as such in this Chapter 23.60A that may be authorized by the Director and approved by Ecology in specific cases where certain stated facts and conditions are found to exist. See Section 23.60A.034 . "Shoreline District" means the area established in Section 23.60A.010 . "Shoreline environment" means an area within the Shoreline District that has policies, use provisions and development standards that regulate development, shoreline modifications and uses for the areas that are designated as such shoreline environments. "Shoreline functions." See "Ecological functions." "Shoreline Master Program" means the comprehensive use plan for the shorelines of the city, which consists of the Shoreline Goals and Policies of the Seattle Comprehensive Plan, the specific regulations of this Chapter 23.60A and the Shoreline Restoration and Enhancement Plan. "Shoreline modifications" means those actions that modify the physical configuration or qualities of the shoreline area, usually through the construction of a physical element such as a dike, breakwater, pier, weir, dredged basin, fill, bulkhead, or other shoreline structure. Shoreline modifications can be other actions, such as land disturbing activity, including clearing, grading, adding impervious surface, altering vegetation, or applying chemicals. "Shoreline residential setback" means the distance landward from the ordinary high water mark that residential structures are required to be located to not block views from abutting residents. See Section 23.60A.206 . "Shoreline Restoration and Enhancement Plan" means the plan that is adopted as part of the ordinance approving this Chapter 23.60A . "Shoreline setback" means the distance landward from the ordinary high water mark that development, shoreline modifications and uses are required to be located, as established in each shoreline environment. "Shoreline stabilization" means techniques to protect against erosion and consist of nonstructural, hard stabilization or soft stabilization techniques, as follows: 1. Hard stabilization. Protection against erosion using primarily structural elements, such as rock, concrete, and metal. Examples include riprap, concrete groins, concrete bulkheads, and sheetpile. 2. Non-structural. Protection against erosion through practices that require minimal disturbance at the shoreline. Examples include setbacks, preservation and management of existing vegetation, upland drainage control, or nourishment of an existing beach. 3. Soft stabilization. Protection against erosion using primarily plant material, gravel, and grading. Examples include live stakes, biotechnical slope stabilization, gravel placement for beach creation, and anchor trees. "Shoreline special use" means uses identified as such in this Chapter 23.60A that may be authorized by the Director in specific cases where the facts and conditions stated in Section 23.60A.032 are found to exist. "Shoreline variance" means a modification of the regulations of this Chapter 23.60A if authorized by the Director and approved by Ecology after a finding that the literal interpretation and strict application of the provisions of this Chapter 23.60A would cause a degree of hardship set out in the standards for shoreline variances in view of specific facts and conditions applying to a lot in the Shoreline District. See Section 23.60A.036 . "Shorelines" means all the water areas of the City and their associated shorelands, together with the lands underlying them, except: 1. Shorelines of statewide significance; 2. Shorelines on segments of streams upstream of a point where the mean annual flow is 20 cubic feet per second or less and the wetlands associated with such upstream segments; and 3. Shorelines on lakes less than 20 acres in size and wetlands associated with such small lakes. "Shorelines of Statewide Significance." The following shorelines of the City are identified in RCW 90.58.030(2)(e) as shorelines of statewide significance: 1. Those areas of Puget Sound and adjacent saltwater lying seaward from the line of extreme low tide; 2. Lake Washington; 3. The Duwamish River; 4. Those shorelands associated with Lake Washington and the Duwamish River. "Shorelines of the City" means the total of all "shorelines" and "shorelines of statewide significance" within the City. "Sign, boat name" means a sign displayed on a vessel, house barge or floating home identifying its name, home port, or manufacturer. Noncommercial messages may not replace vessel's indentifying information. "Sign, interpretive" means an on-premises sign describing a natural or historic feature on the same site as the sign or intended to be viewed from the site. Noncommercial messages may not replace this information. "Sign, raceboat sponsor" means an on-premises sign, located on a vessel that is in a race sanctioned by an established and incorporated boat racing association or group that identifies the persons sponsoring the vessel in the race, or noncommercial messages replacing this information. "Site" means development site, except when (1) applying use standards that require additional water-dependent and/or water-related uses to be part of the development or on a site, such as in subsection 23.60A.382.C, it means contiguous parcels operated by the same business/in the same ownership (under the same ownership), or (2) there is an adjective describing the meaning of site, such as "floating home site." "Sleeving" means a method of pile repair that uses a non-toxic material frame to encapsulate a pile. "SMA" means Shoreline Management Act. "SMC" means Seattle Municipal Code. "SMP" means Shoreline Master Program. "Soft stabilization." See "Shoreline stabilization". "Special use." See Shoreline special use. "SPU" means Seattle Public Utilities. "Structure" means a permanent or temporary edifice or building, or any piece of work artificially built or composed of parts artificially joined together in some definite manner, whether installed on, above, or below the surface of the ground or water, including fences, walls, signs, piers, floats and drydocks, but not including poles, flower-bed frames and other minor incidental improvements, or vessels. "Sub-geograhic area" See "Geographic area." "Submerged land" means all lands waterward of the ordinary high water mark or mean higher high water, whichever is higher. "Substantial development" means any development of which the total cost or fair market value exceeds the amount established in WAC 173-27-040, except as otherwise provided in subsection 23.60A.020.C, or any development which materially interferes with the normal public use of the water or shorelines of the City. "Substantial improvement" and "substantially improved" means maintenance, renovations, repairs, or alterations the cost of which in any five year period starting from the date of this ordinance equals or exceeds 60 percent of the market value of the development, or for alteration of nonconforming uses or development exceeds 60 percent of the market value of the portion of the development that is structurally nonconforming or contains the nonconforming use prior to undertaking the work. "Synchrony-lift dry dock." See "Dry dock." (Ord. 124750 , § 73, 2015; Ord. 124105 , § 3, 2013.)