2016/12/07 Council Agenda Packet

(2) "Best Management Practice (BMP) — Shall mean the schedules of activities, prohibitions of practices, maintenance procedures, and structural and/or managerial practices, that when used singly or in combination, prevent or reduce the release of pollutants and other adverse impacts to waters of Washington state. (3) "City Engineer"shall mean the City Engineer and/or his designee. (4) "Commercial Agriculture" shall mean those activities conducted on lands defined in RCW 84.34.020(2) and activities involved in the production of crops or livestock or commercial trade. An activity ceases to be considered commercial agriculture when the area on which it is conducted is proposed for conversion to a nonagricultural use or has lain idle for more than five years, unless the idle land is registered in a federal or state soils conservation program, or unless the activity is maintenance or irrigation ditches, laterals, canals, or drainage ditches related to an existing and ongoing agricultural activity. (5) "Converted vegetation (areas)" shall mean the surfaces on a project site where native vegetation, pasture, scrub/shrub, or unmaintained non-native vegetation (e.g., Himalayan blackberry, Scotch Broom) are converted to lawn or landscaped areas, or where native vegetation is converted to pasture. L46) "Critical Area" shall refer to areas that are highly susceptible to erosion or flooding such as steep or bare slopes, potential slides, flood plains, stream banks, drainage channels, silt bars, wetlands, bogs,marshes, and poorly drained areas. (57) "Detention Facilities" shall mean facilities designed to hold runoff while gradually releasing it at predetermined maximum rates. (86) "Developer" shall mean the owning individual(s) or corporation(s) or their representative applying for the permits or approvals described in Section 3(1) of this ordinance. 8 9