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• 1 ORDINANCE NO. // )4 76-- 2 6f2 AN ORDINANCE amending the City's Shoreline Ordinance, Sections 3 and 3 10 of Ordinance No. 723-80, and repealing Ordinance No. 824-81. 4 5 NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY OF EVERETT DOES ORDAIN: 6 Section 1: That Section 3 of Ordinance No. 723-80 (EMC 20.12.030) which 7 reads as follows: 8 Definitions: The following definitions are applicable to this ordinance: 9 A. Act means the Shoreline Management Act of 1971, Chapter 90.58 10 RC W. 11 B. Development means a use, consisting of the construction or exterior alteration of structures; dredging; drilling; dumping; 12 filling; removal of any sand, gravel or minerals; bulkheading; driving of piling; placing of obstructions; or any project of a 13 permanent or temporary nature which interferes with the normal public use of the surface of the waters overlying lands subject to 14 the act at any state of water level. 15 C. Hearings Board means the Shoreline Hearings Board established by the Act. 16 D. Master Program means the Shoreline Master Program for the City 17 of Everett, including the regulations together with maps, diagrams, charts or other descriptive material and text, a statement of 18 desired goals and stnadards developed in accordance with the policies enunciated in Section 2 of the Shoreline Management Act 19 of 1971. 20 E. Ordinary High-Water Mark means the mark on Silver Lake, the Snohomish River and Port Gardner Bay, which will be found by 21 examining the beds and banks, and ascertaining where the presence and action of waters are so common and usual, and so long 22 continued in all ordinary years; as to mark upon the soil a character distinct from that of the abutting upland, in respect to 23 vegetation, as that condition exists on the effective date of this chapter (June, 1971) or as it may naturally change thereafter: 24 PROVIDED, that in any area where the ordinary high-water mark adjoining saltwater shall be the line of mean higher high tide and 25 the ordinary high-water mark adjoining freshwater shall be the line of mean high water. 26 F. Within the Scope and Intent of the Original Permit shall be 27 construed to mean that the size value of the authorized project will remain essentially constant or be reduced. Consistent with 28 this design, changes involving no additional environmental impacts may be included. 29 G. Shoreline Permit means that required by the Shoreline Management 30 Act for Substantial Development, Conditional Use or Variance on Shorelines, to be issued by the City of Everett and subject to 31 review by the Department of Ecology and the Attorney General. 32