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K. "Substantial development" means any development of which the total cost or fair <br /> market value exceeds one thousand dollars, or any development having an interrelated <br /> effect on both uplands and shorelines of Everett, or any development which materially <br /> interferes with normal public use of the water or shorelines of Everett. <br /> L. "Substantial progress" towards construction includes, but is not limited to, the letting <br /> of bids, making of contracts, purchase of material involved in development, but shall not <br /> include development or uses which are inconsistent with the criteria set forth in Section <br /> 20.12.070, provided, that in determining the running of the two-year period, there shall <br /> not be included the time during which a development was not actually pursued by <br /> construction and the pendency of litigation reasonably related thereto make it reasonable <br /> not to so pursue. <br /> M. "Wetlands" or "wetland areas" means those lands extending landward for at least two <br /> hundred feet in all directions, as measured on a horizontal plane from the ordinary high <br /> water mark of Silver Lake, Port Gardner Bay and the Snohomish River, and all marshes, <br /> swamps, floodways, river deltas and floodplains associated with the above areas. The <br /> wetland area shall not be greater than the one hundred year floodplain boundary as <br /> established by Everett's flood insurance study per HUD guidelines. <br /> 20.12.040 Permit exemptions. <br /> The following shall not be required to obtain substantial development permits: <br /> A. Development which does not exceed one thousand dollars, if such development does <br /> not materially interfere with the normal public use of the water or shoreline of the city; <br /> B. Normal maintenance or the repair of existing structures or developments, including <br /> damage by accident, fire or elements; <br /> C. Construction of the normal protective bulkhead common to single-family residences <br /> (i.e., Silver Lake); <br /> D. Emergency construction necessary to protect property from damage by the elements; <br /> E. Construction of a barn or similar agricultural structure on wetlands; <br /> F. Construction or modification of navigation aids, such as channel markers and anchor <br /> buoys; <br /> G. Construction on wetlands by an owner, lessee or contract purchaser of a single-family <br /> residence for his own use or for the use of his/her family, which residence does not <br /> exceed a height of thirty-five feet above grade level; <br /> H. Construction of a dock, designed for pleasure craft only, for the private <br /> noncommercial use of the owners, lessee or contract purchaser of a single-family <br /> residence, the cost or fair market value of which, whichever is lower, does not exceed <br /> two thousand five hundred dollars; <br /> I. Other activities listed in WAC 173-14-040. <br /> 20.12.050 Letter of exemption. <br /> Whenever a development falls within the exemption stated in subsection C of Section <br /> 20.12.040 and the development is subject to a United States Corps of Engineers Section <br /> 10 permit under the River and Harbor Act of 1899, or a Section 404 permit under the <br /> Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1972, the planning director shall prepare a letter <br /> addressed to the applicant and the Department of Ecology, exempting the development <br /> 3 <br />