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IEVERETT COMPREHENSIVE PLAN GLOSSARY ilkocompensation need be paid for the imposition of police Property Improvement: Any modification made to power controls real estate. I Policy: An agreed course of action adopted and PSAPCA: See Puget Sound Air Pollution Control pursued by decision makers for achieving one or Agency. several goals and objectives and which shall be used as pa guide for formulating programs. PSI: See Pounds per Square Inch. Pollutants: A contaminant that adversely alters the PSRC: See Puget Sound Regional Council. physical, chemical, or biological properties of the II environment. Pollutants can come from solid waste, Public Access: A means of physical approach to and sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, and municipal waste along the shoreline available to the general public. discharged into water. Public access may also include visual approach. (SMP) 111 Ponding: A situation in which a natural or man-made Public Development Authority (PDA): A city barrier traps surface and subsurface waters. Since chartered non-profit corporation which has an I precipitation can neither run off the surface nor move independent Board of Directors containing a specified through the subsurface soil, water dissipation occurs number of members who may be appointed by the only through evaporation. (SMP) Mayor or County Executive, and/or City or County I Council or the Snohomish County Public Utility Pounds per Square Inch (PSI): A unit of measure- District(PUD). mens of force or pressure. Public Facility: Any use of land, whether publicly or I Primary Treatment: A waste water treatment privately owned, for transportation, utilities, or method that uses settling, skimming, and (usually) communication, or for the benefit of the general chlorination to remove solids, floating materials, and public, including streets, schools, libraries, fire and 00 pathogens from waste water. police stations, municipal and county buildings, powerhouses, recreational centers, parks, and cemeter- Prime Agricultural Land: Soils with little or no ics. limitations or hazards for crop production Puget Sound Air Pollution Control Agency Principal Use Parking: A commercial parking lot or (PSAPCA): The lead agency for developing air garage available to the general public, comprising the quality standards for the Central Puget Sound Region 1 main use of the property. in compliance with federal laws. Procedural Guidelines: Chapter 365-195 WAC. The Puget Sound Electric Utilities Task Force On IWashington State Legislature charged the Department Growth Management: A group of representatives of of Community Development with the task of adopting thc four major electric utilities serving thc greater by rule procedural criteria to assist counties and cities Pugct Sound area, plus the Bonneville Power Admini- in adopting comprehensive plans and development stration organized to discuss thc Growth Management I regulations that meet the goals and requirements of the Act. The four utilities arc Tacoma Public Utilities, GMA. Along with listing requirements set forth in Seattle City Light, Snohomish County Public Utility GMA, this document sets forth recommendations for District, and Pugct Sound Power&Light Company. I meeting the requirements. It has been left up to each local jurisdiction to determine whether the recommen- Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC): The dations are applicable. regional planning and decision-making body for I growth and transportation issues in King, Kitsap, Project-based Assistance: Rental assistance provided Pierce and Snohomish Counties. Under federal for a project, not for a specific tenant. Tenants transportation law, the Council is the Metropolitan receiving project-based rental assistance give up the Planning Organization (MPO), responsible for right to that assistance upon moving from the project. regional transportation planning and programming of federal transportation funds in the four counties. It is also the designated Regional Transportation Planning I G-17 I