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Article I. Introduction
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16.06.010 Purpose and intent.
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The SMP regulations are intended to carry out the responsibilities imposed on the city of Selah by the Shoreline Management Act (Chapter 90.58 RCW) and its administrative rules (Chapters 173-18, 173-20, 173-22, 173-26 and 173-27 WAC) insofar as regulations can, and the adoption of these regulations does not remove other responsibilities imposed by the Act. The purposes of the shoreline master program regulations are to:

(1) Promote reasonable and appropriate use of the shorelines that will protect the public and private interest;

(2) Protect against adverse effects to the public health, the land, its vegetation and wildlife and the waters and their aquatic life within the city of Selah;

(3) Protect public rights of navigation;

(4) Recognize and protect private property rights consistent with public interest;

(5) Maintain or recreate a high quality of environment along the shorelines;

(6) Preserve and protect fragile natural resources and culturally significant features;

(7) Increase public access to publicly owned areas of the shorelines where increased use levels are desirable;

(8) Protect public and private properties from adverse effects of improper development in hazardous shoreline areas;

(9) Recognize and protect statewide interests;

(10) Give preference to uses that result in long-term over short-term benefits; and

(11) Provide for no net loss of ecological functions from both individual permitted development and individual exempt development. (Ord. 2123, § 1 (Att.), 2021.)