30.65.280 Density fringe area: permitted uses.
The following uses are permitted in the density fringe area:
(1) Agriculture, including:
(a) Accessory agricultural structures such as but not limited to barns, milking parlors, silos, manure tanks, and loafing sheds that provide direct support for primary agricultural activities including tilling of the soil, raising of crops, horticulture, viticulture, small livestock, poultry, pasturing, grazing, dairying and/or animal husbandry; and
(b) Livestock protection mounds, when the mounds do not consist of solid waste as defined by this title; and
(c) Manure pits and lagoons;
(2) Forestry, including processing of forest products with portable equipment;
(3) Preserves and reservations;
(4) Parks and recreational activities;
(5) Removal of rock, sand and gravel providing that the applicant can provide clear and convincing evidence that such a use will not divert flood flows causing channel shift or erosion, accelerate or amplify the flooding of downstream flood hazard areas, increase the flood threat to upstream flood hazard areas, or in any other way threaten public or private properties. When allowed, such removal shall comply with the provisions of chapter 30.31D SCC and the county shoreline management program;
(6) Utility transmission lines, under the same terms and conditions of SCC 30.65.200(2);
(7) Water-dependent utilities. Examples of such uses are dams for domestic/industrial water supply, flood control and/or hydroelectric production; water diversion structures and facilities for water supply, irrigation and/or fisheries enhancement; flood water and drainage pumping plants and facilities; hydroelectric generating facilities and appurtenant structures; and structural and non-structural flood damage reduction facilities, and stream bank stabilization structures and practices;
(8) Improvements to existing residential structures that do not exceed the maximum allowable density and obstruction requirements of SCC 30.65.250 and 30.65.255;
(9) Single family farmhouse structures including modular homes and mobile homes placed on permanent concrete foundations, if the following conditions are met:
(a) The structure is constructed to building code standards and all other applicable standards within chapter 30.65 SCC;
(b) The farmhouse is necessary to the operation of a commercial farm engaged in agriculture;
(c) A potential building site for the farmhouse on the same farm site is not available outside the density fringe area;
(d) Earthfill utilized for building foundation shall be emplaced and stabilized in a manner that will prevent erosion from flood water flow;
(e) New and replacement water supply systems are designed to eliminate or minimize infiltration of flood waters into the system;
(f) New and replacement sanitary sewerage systems are designed and located to eliminate or minimize infiltration of flood waters into the system and to eliminate or minimize discharge from the system into the flood waters;
(g) All other utilities and connections to public utilities are designed, constructed, and located to eliminate or minimize flood damage;
(h) An egress plan for vacating the structure during the base flood occurrence shall be provided;
(10) Marinas;
(11) Dikes, if the applicant can provide clear and convincing evidence that:
(a) Adverse effects upon adjacent properties will not result relative to increased floodwater depths and velocities during the base flood or other more frequent flood occurrences;
(b) Natural drainage ways are minimally affected in that their ability to adequately drain floodwaters after a flooding event is not impaired; and
(c) The proposal has been coordinated through the appropriate diking district where applicable, and that potential adverse effects upon other affected diking districts have been documented;
(12) Utility facilities;
(13) Public works, limited to:
(a) Roads,
(b) Bridges,
(c) Docks, and
(d) Port facilities; and
(14) In urban growth areas only, those uses permitted or conditionally permitted in the underlying zones under SCC 30.22.100, as long as the maximum allowable density and obstruction requirements of SCC 30.65.250 and 30.65.255 are not exceeded and all applicable standards and restrictions of the Shoreline Management Program in chapter 30.67 SCC are met. The following uses are prohibited:
(b) Day care centers;
(d) Material recovery facilities; and
(e) Recycling facilities. (Added by Amended Ord. 02-064, Dec. 9, 2002, Eff date Feb. 1, 2003; Amended by Amended Ord. 05-068, Sept. 7, 2005, Eff date Sept. 24, 2005; Amended by Amended Ord. 12-025, June 6, 2012, Eff date July 27, 2012; Amended by Ord. 20-076, Nov. 4, 2020, Eff date Nov. 27, 2020).