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Shoreline Environments

Shoreline Environments. King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks King County Department of Development and Environmental Services. Current Program. Urban Rural Conservancy Natural. Ecology Guidelines. High Intensity Shoreline Residential Urban Conservancy

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Shoreline Environments

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  1. Shoreline Environments King County Department of Natural Resources and Parks King County Department of Development and Environmental Services

  2. Current Program • Urban • Rural • Conservancy • Natural

  3. Ecology Guidelines • High Intensity • Shoreline Residential • Urban Conservancy • Rural Conservancy • Natural • Aquatic

  4. Challenges and Goals • Geographic coverage • Lakes – 234 miles • Rivers – 1696 miles • Marine – 51 miles • Rely on existing regulations • Zoning • Critical Areas • Factor in: • Shoreline Characterization • Restoration Priority • Public Access Priority ?

  5. First Concept

  6. Second Concept

  7. Third Concept

  8. Fourth Concept • Aquatic – all water areas • Natural – all FPD and wilderness areas and parks land with a High Rating • Conservancy – all agriculture, mineral, and parks lands, areas within a CMZ or FEMA Floodway, and RA zoned areas with larger lot patterns and low levels of impervious surface • Rural – all RA zoned areas not in conservancy, natural, or shoreline residential • Shoreline Residential – all R zoned areas and RA zoned with smaller lot patterns and higher levels of impervious surface • High Intensity – all business, commercial, and industrial zones

  9. Fourth Concept

  10. Fifth Concept • High Intensity: • Zoned Urban Residential (R or UR), Neighborhood Business (NB), Commercial Business (CB), Regional Business (RB), Office (O), or Industrial (I). • Rural Shoreline: • Zoned Rural Area (RA) and does not meet the criteria for Conservancy Shoreline or Natural Shoreline.

  11. Fifth Concept • Conservancy Shoreline: • Outside of forest and agricultural production districts and primarily within FEMA floodway or severe channel migration zone. • Marine shoreline and characterization score of 90% or with an exceptional feeder bluff. • Lake shoreline with characterization score of at least 90% or with upward trending or borderline trophic states. • River shoreline with characterization score of at least 90% or restoration plan rating HH, HM, or MH. • Public ownership and managed for public access and recreation. • Unique historic or cultural resources.

  12. Fifth Concept • Resource Shoreline Environment • Agricultural production district or Mineral Resource Land. • Natural Shoreline Environment • High ecological quality and performing important, irreplaceable ecological process or function that would be damaged by human activity • Unable to support new development or uses without significant adverse impacts to ecological processes and functions or risk to human safety. • Forest Production District • Federally designated wilderness area, area managed by King County as natural lands, or municipally owned watershed

  13. Sixth Concept • Aquatic – all water bodies • Higher Intensity – urban residential and commercial, business, and industrial land use zones not in FEMA floodway or CMZ or in a park • Rural – RA and UR zoned areas not in conservancy, natural resource, or natural • Conservancy – all areas in CMZ, FEMA floodway, recreation park, mineral resource, agriculture zoned, or high priority for restoration (HH, HM, or MH) • Natural Resource – Municipal watersheds, all FPD not in Natural, and DNRP natural resource lands • Natural – Wilderness areas and DNRP natural lands

  14. Public Review Concept

  15. Unresolved Issues • Reaches used for characterization vs. for designation • Mining and agriculture in the conservancy environment • WDNR Aquatic Reserves

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