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Shoreline adopts revised Critical Areas Code, declines to designate Olympic View wellhead as CARA for now
Summary
The Shoreline City Council adopted Ordinance 1045 updating critical areas rules — including a new 200‑foot riparian management zone and clarifying language on when separated land is not regulated — and declined to immediately designate the Deer Creek Springs capture area as a critical aquifer recharge area, opting instead for stormwater code changes and further study.
Shoreline City Council on Monday adopted Ordinance 1045, a comprehensive update to the city’s Critical Areas Code that replaces varying buffer rules with a 200‑foot riparian management zone in many cases, clarifies permit and mitigation requirements, and adds an amendatory motion clarifying when areas are "physically separated and functionally isolated" from a stream and thus not regulated as critical area.
Elise Kaim, the city’s planning manager, told council the riparian management zone is 200 feet wide and that the draft code includes flexibility for urban contexts, reductions…
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