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City staff outline plan to fold updated critical‑areas rules into Sammamish shoreline master program
Summary
Staff said the update is largely administrative: integrate the city’s recently updated critical‑areas code into the Shoreline Master Program for Lake Sammamish, Beaver Lake and Pine Lake, then seek Ecology pre‑review and a council ordinance in spring.
City staff on Jan. 21 presented a workshop describing a planned administrative update to the Sammamish Shoreline Master Program (SMP) that would integrate the city’s recently updated critical‑areas regulations.
David Pyle of the Department of Community Development told council that state law requires critical areas rules adopted under the Growth Management Act be integrated into a city’s shoreline program when they overlap shoreline jurisdiction. He said the Shoreline Management Act and its implementing rules differ from critical‑areas…
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