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References
[Note: All references updated since the 2018 Comprehensive Plan. Changes are not tracked for
legibility.]
General
Jefferson County. (1999, August). Tri-Area/Glen Cove Special Study. Final Supplemental Environmental
Impact Statement with Addendum
Jefferson County. (2002 and 2004). Brinnon Subarea Plan and Amendments. Retrieved from
http://www.co.jefferson.wa.us/749/Brinnon-Subarea-Plan.
Jefferson County. (2016, October). Jefferson County Community Health Improvement Plan, Jefferson
County Public Hospital District No. 2 and Jefferson County Public Health. Retrieved from
https://www.jeffersoncountypublichealth.org/1749/Data-and-Assessment.
Jefferson County. (2024, November 18). Countywide Planning Policies, Jefferson Resolution No. 67-1118-
24R.
Jefferson County. (2024, November 18). Population and Housing Growth Allocations, Jefferson County
Resolution No. 68-1118-24R.
Jefferson County. (2025). Jefferson County Unified Development Code. Retrieved from
http://www.codepublishing.com/WA/JeffersonCounty/.
Jefferson County GIS Department. (2025). GIS Data. Retrieved from
http://www.co.jefferson.wa.us/293/GIS.
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REFERENCES, PHOTOS, ACRONYMS, & GLOSSARY
Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan R–2 Public Hearing Draft April 2026
North Olympic Development Council (NODC). (2016). Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy
2016-2020. Retrieved from http://www.noprcd.org/economic-development.
U.S. Census Bureau. (2017). American Community Survey 2013-2017 5-Year Estimates. Retrieved from
https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml.
U.S. Census Bureau. (2020). 2020 Census. Retrieved from
https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml.
U.S. Census Bureau. (2022). American Community Survey 2018-2022 5-Year Estimates. Retrieved from
https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml.
U.S. Census Bureau. (2022). OnTheMap. Retrieved from LEHD Origin-Destination Employment Statistics:
https://onthemap.ces.census.gov/.
U.S. Census Bureau. (2023). American Community Survey 2019-2023 5-Year Estimates. Retrieved from
https://factfinder.census.gov/faces/nav/jsf/pages/index.xhtml.
U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD). (2019). CHAS (Comprehensive Housing Affordability
Strategy) Data 2015-2019. Retrieved from https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/cp.html.
U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD). (2024). HCV Applicant and Tenant Resources. Retrieved
from https://www.hud.gov/topics/housing_choice_voucher_program_section_8.
Washington State Legislature. (2025). Revised Code of Washington (RCW). http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/.
Washington State Legislature. (2025). Washington Administrative Code (WAC).
http://apps.leg.wa.gov/wac/.
Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM). (2022). Growth Management Act Population
Projections for Counties: 2020 to 2050. Retrieved from https://ofm.wa.gov/washington-data-
research/population-demographics/population-forecasts-and-projections/growth-management-
act-county-projections/growth-management-act-population-projections-counties-2010-2040-0.
Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM). (2022). Population by Age, Mapped by
County. Retrieved from https://ofm.wa.gov/washington-data-research/statewide-data/washington-
trends/population-changes/population-age-mapped-county.
Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM). (2024). April 1 Official Population Estimates.
Retreived from https://www.ofm.wa.gov/washington-data-research/population-
demographics/population-estimates/april-1-official-population-estimates.
Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM). (2024). Small Area Estimates. Retrieved from
https://ofm.wa.gov/washington-data-research/population-demographics/population-
estimates/small-area-estimates-program.
Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM). (2025). Population Density and Land Area
Criteria Used for Rural Area Assistance and Other Programs. Retrieved from
https://www.ofm.wa.gov/washington-data-research/population-demographics/population-
estimates/population-density/population-density-and-land-area-criteria-used-rural-area-
assistance-and-other-programs.
REFERENCES, PHOTOS, ACRONYMS, & GLOSSARY
Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan R–3 Public Hearing Draft April 2026
Land Use
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2024). PLACES: Local Data for Better Health.
Retrieved from https://www.cdc.gov/places/.
County Health Rankings & Roadmap. (2024). County Health Rankings: Jefferson County. Retrieved from
https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/health-data/washington/jefferson?year=2024.
Jefferson County. (2019). Community Health Assessment Quantitative Report. Retrieved from
https://www.jeffersoncountypublichealth.org/1749/Data-and-Assessment.
Jefferson County. (2019). Community Health Assessment Report: Summary Findings. Retrieved from
https://www.jeffersoncountypublichealth.org/1749/Data-and-Assessment.
Jefferson County Assessor. (2024). GIS Tax Parcel Data. Retrieved from
https://jeffcowa.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html.
Jefferson County Public Health. (2025). Environmental and Climate Health Threats and Adaptation
Report. Retrieved from https://jeffersoncountypublichealth.org/DocumentCenter/View/20734/East-
Jefferson-County-Environmental-and-Climate-Health-Threats-and-Adaptation-Opportunities---
January-2025-.
PSRC. (2011). Airport Compatible Land Use Plan. Retrieved from
https://www.psrc.org/sites/default/files/airportcompatiblelanduse.pdf.
Public Health Seattle & King County (PHSKC). (2020). Community Health and Airport Operations
Related Noise and Air Pollution. Retrieved from
https://apps.leg.wa.gov/ReportsToTheLegislature/Home/GetPDF?fileName=Community%20Health
%20and%20Airport%20Operations%20Related%20Pollution%20Report_c7389ae6-f956-40ef-98a7-
f85a4fab1c59.pdf.
University of Washington. (2019). Mov-Up Report. Retrieved from
https://deohs.washington.edu/sites/default/files/Mov-Up Report.pdf.
U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT). (2020). National Transportation Noise Map. Retrieved from
https://maps.dot.gov/BTS/NationalTransportationNoiseMap/.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (2023). Heat Island Effect. Retrieved from
https://www.epa.gov/heatislands.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (2023). Heat Island Impacts. Retrieved from
https://www.epa.gov/heatislands/heat-island-impacts.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). (2023). Reduce Heat Islands. Retrieved from
https://www.epa.gov/green-infrastructure/reduce-urban-heat-island-
effect#:~:text=%22Urban%20heat%20islands%22%20occur%20when,heat%2Drelated%20illness%20a
nd%20mortality.
Washington State Department of Commerce (Commerce). (2022). Guidance for Evaluating Land
Capacity to Meet All Housing Needs. Retrieved from
https://deptofcommerce.app.box.com/s/k14gbqe7z8d7ek6z8ibui79zb7bo9vpa.
Washingotn State Employment Security Department (ESD) and PSRC. (2017, October). 2016 Covered
Employment Estimates by Jurisdiction. Seattle, WA. Retrieved from https://psrc-
psregcncl.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/PSREGCNCL::covered-employment-by-city-major-sector/about.
REFERENCES, PHOTOS, ACRONYMS, & GLOSSARY
Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan R–4 Public Hearing Draft April 2026
Washington State Employment Security Department (ESD). (2021-2023). Covered Employment
Estimates (QCEW). Retrieved from https://esd.wa.gov/labormarketinfo/covered-employment.
Washington State Healthy Youth Survey. (2023). Washington State Healthy Youth Survey: Jefferson
County. Retrieved from https://www.askhys.net/SurveyResults/DataByLocation.
The William D. Ruckelshaus Center. (2017). Road Map to Washington's Future: Phase I Pre-Assessment
Report. Retrieved April 2018, from http://ruckelshauscenter.wsu.edu/a-roadmap-to-washingtons-
future/.
Natural Resources
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). (2025). 2022 Census of Agriculture—Washington State and
Jefferson County Data. Available
https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/AgCensus/2022/Full_Report/Census_by_State/Washington/
index.php.
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS). (2025). USDA-
NRCS Soil Survey Geographic Database (SSURGO). Accessed March 2025. Retrieved from
https://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/.
Washington State Department of Commerce (Commerce). (2023). WSR 23-08-037 Permanent Rules of
Commerce. https://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/law/wsr/2023/08/23-08-037.htm.
Washington State Department of Natural Resources. (2025). Geology GIS Data and Databases.
Retrieved 2025, from https://www.dnr.wa.gov/programs-and-services/geology/publications-and-
data/gis-data-and-databases.
Housing and Appendix B
City of Port Townsend and Jefferson County. (2006). Housing Action Plan. Adopted by City of Port
Townsend October 2, 2006 (Res. No. 06-026) and Board of County Commissioners for Jefferson
County October 9, 2006 (Res. No. 69-06).
Clark Construction. (2024). 7th Haven. Retrieved from https://clarkconstruct.com/portfolio/7th-haven/.
E.D. Hovee & Company, LLC. (2021). Jefferson County Economic Development Existing Conditions
Report. Prepared for EDC Team Jefferson.
Jefferson County. (2022-2023). Jefferson County Housing Projects Verification Worksheet.
Jefferson County Assessor. (2024). GIS Tax Parcel Data. Retrieved from
https://jeffcowa.maps.arcgis.com/home/index.html.
OlyCap. (2011, updated 2015). Ending Homelessness in Jefferson County WA. Retrieved from
https://leg.wa.gov/jlarc/reports/2019/homelessness/documents/Jefferson.pdf.
OlyCAP. (2024). Housing Services. Retrieved from https://olycap.org/housing-services.
Olympic Peninsula Tourism Commission. (2024). 2023 Value of Tourism to Jefferson County. Retrieved
from https://olympicpeninsula.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Value-of-Tourism-to-Jefferson-
County-2023.pdf.
PSRC. (2023). Dissimilarity Index and U.S. HUD guidelines. Retrieved from https://www.psrc.org/our-
work/racial-residential-segregation.
REFERENCES, PHOTOS, ACRONYMS, & GLOSSARY
Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan R–5 Public Hearing Draft April 2026
Redfin. (2024, April). Montly Housing Market Data. Retrieved from https://www.redfin.com/news/data-
center/.
SmartAsset. (2024). Washington Property Tax Calculator. Retrieved from
https://smartasset.com/taxes/washington-property-tax-calculator.
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). (2022). Economic Profile for Jefferson. Retrieved from
https://apps.bea.gov/regional/bearfacts/?_gl=1*qstgom*_ga*MTkyNzg2ODQ2MC4xNzE4NzM1ODAz*
_ga_J4698JNNFT*MTcxODczNTgwMi4xLjEuMTcxODczNjEzMC42MC4wLjA.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). (2024, March). Unadjusted Unemployment Rate (Series
LNU04000000). Retrieved from BLS Data Viewer:
https://data.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/LNU04000000.
U.S. Census. (2021). County Business Patterns (CB2100CBP). Retrieved from
https://data.census.gov/table?q=jefferson%20county%20washington%20CB2100CBP&g=050XX00U
S53031&y=2021.
U.S. Census. (2021). Housing Patterns: Appendix B: Measures of Residential Segregation. Retrieved from
https://www.census.gov/topics/housing/housing-patterns/guidance/appendix-b.html.
U.S. Economic Development Administration. (2025). Distressed Area Recompete Pilot Program
(Recompete). Retrieved from https://www.eda.gov/funding/programs/recompete-pilot-program.
U.S. Economic Development Administration. (2025). List of Recompete Pilot Program Awardees.
Retrieved from https://www.eda.gov/funding/programs/recompete-pilot-program/2023.
U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD). (2024). HCV Applicant and Tenant Resources. Retrieved
from https://www.hud.gov/topics/housing_choice_voucher_program_section_8.
U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD). (2024). Income Limits. Retrieved from
https://www.huduser.gov/portal/datasets/il.html.
University of Washington Center for Real Estate Research (WCRER). (2024). City and County Rental
Data. Retrieved from https://wcrer.be.uw.edu/housing-market-data-toolkit/rental-market/.
Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). (2024). Report Card 2023-24 School
Year. Retrieved from https://reportcard.ospi.k12.wa.us/.
Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI). (2024). Report Card 2023-24 School
Year: Enrollment. Retrieved from https://data.wa.gov/education/Report-Card-Enrollment-2023-24-
School-Year/q4ba-s3jc/about_data.
Washington State Department of Commerce (Commerce). (2022). Guidance for Evaluating Land
Capacity to Meet All Housing Needs. Retrieved from
https://deptofcommerce.app.box.com/s/k14gbqe7z8d7ek6z8ibui79zb7bo9vpa.
Washington State Department of Commerce (Commerce). (2023). Establishing Housing Targets for you
Community: County-level considerations for housing planning. Retrieved from
https://deptofcommerce.app.box.com/s/chqj8wk1esnnranyb3ewzgd4w0e5ve3a.
Washington State Department of Commerce (Commerce). (2023). Guidance to Address Racially
Disparate Impacts: Updating your housing element to address new requirements. Retrieved from
https://deptofcommerce.box.com/s/1l217l98jattb87qobtw63pkplzhxege.
REFERENCES, PHOTOS, ACRONYMS, & GLOSSARY
Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan R–6 Public Hearing Draft April 2026
Washington State Department of Commerce (Commerce). (2023). PIT Count. Retrieved from Annual
Point in Time Count. Retrieved from https://www.commerce.wa.gov/homelessness-
response/planning-and-reporting/pit-count/.
Washington State Department of Commerce (Commerce). (2024). Displacement Risk. Retrieved from
https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/d26f4383cab3411cb45f39ddfc666b74/#data_s=id%3A83713
d4b3ea34743bed49d3d61be4fb3-187dd75e9f2-layer-27-187dcfb6357-layer-4%3A499.
Washington State Department of Commerce (Commerce). (2024). Economic Recovery Dashboard.
Retrieved from EDC Team Jefferson: https://www.edcteamjefferson.org/economic-recovery-
dashboard.
Washington State Department of Commerce (Commerce). (2024). Housing for All Planning Tool (HAPT).
Retrieved from Updating GMA Housing Elements: https://www.commerce.wa.gov/growth-
management/housing-planning/housing-guidance/.
Washington State Department of Commerce (Commerce). (2024). STEP 101 Fact Sheet. Retrieved from
Updating GMA Housing Elements: https://www.commerce.wa.gov/growth-management/housing-
planning/housing-guidance/.
Washington State Department of Commerce (Commerce). (2024). STEP State of the Practice Report .
Retrieved from Updating GMA Housing Elements: https://www.commerce.wa.gov/growth-
management/housing-planning/housing-guidance/.
Washington State Department of Commerce (Commerce). (2024). Updating GMA Housing Elements.
Retrieved from https://www.commerce.wa.gov/serving-communities/growth-
management/growth-management-topics/planning-for-housing/updating-gma-housing-
elements/.
Washington State Department of Revenue (DOR). (2024). Property Tax Revenues by County. Retrieved
from https://dor.wa.gov/property-tax-ratios-county.
Washington State Department of Revenue (DOR). (2024). Taxable Retail Sales. Retrieved from
https://apps.dor.wa.gov/ResearchStats/Content/TaxableRetailSalesLocal/Report.aspx.
Washington State Employment Security Department (ESD). (2021-2023). Covered Employment
Estimates (QCEW). Retrieved from https://esd.wa.gov/labormarketinfo/covered-employment.
Washington State Employment Security Department (ESD). (2022). Median, Average, and Hourly
Wages. Retrieved from https://esd.wa.gov/labormarketinfo/median-hourly-wages.
Washington State Employment Security Department (ESD). (2023). Occupational Employment and
Wage Statistics. Retrieved from https://esd.wa.gov/labormarketinfo/occupations.
Washington State Employment Security Department (ESD). (2024). Jefferson County Profile: County
Data Tables. Retrieved from https://esd.wa.gov/labormarketinfo/county-profiles/jefferson.
Washington State Employment Security Department (ESD). (2024). Labor force (LAUS): Not Seasonally
Adjusted Historical Estimates. Retrieved from https://esd.wa.gov/jobs-and-training/labor-market-
information/labor-force-and-unemployment/labor-force-laus.
Washingotn State Employment Security Department (ESD) and PSRC. (2017, October). 2016 Covered
Employment Estimates by Jurisdiction. Seattle, WA. Retrieved from https://psrc-
psregcncl.hub.arcgis.com/datasets/PSREGCNCL::covered-employment-by-city-major-sector/about.
REFERENCES, PHOTOS, ACRONYMS, & GLOSSARY
Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan R–7 Public Hearing Draft April 2026
Washington State Housing Finance Commission. (2024). 2024 Income and Rent Limits for All Tax Credit
and Bond Financed Properties. Retrieved from https://www.wshfc.org/managers/map.aspx.
Zillow. (2024, April). Zillow Housing Value Indes (ZHVI). Retrieved from
https://www.zillow.com/research/data/.
Zillow. (2024, April). Zillow Observed Rental Index (ZORI). Retrieved from
https://www.zillow.com/research/data/.
Open Space, Parks & Recreation, Historical & Cultural Preservation
Jefferson County Conservation District. (2025). Jefferson County Conservation District Homepage.
Retrieved from https://www.jeffersoncd.org/.
Jefferson County Parks and Recreation. (2022). Parks, Recreation & Open Space (PROS) Comprehensive
Plan. Retrieved from
https://jeffersoncountywa.myrec.com/forms/7581_jefferson_county_parks_recreation_open_space_a
nd_trails_comprehensive_plan_october_10_2022.pdf.
Jefferson County Public Health. (2025). Conservation Futures Fund Program. Retrieved from Boards
and Commissions A-E: https://www.jeffersoncountypublichealth.org/560/Conservation-Futures-
Program.
Jefferson Land Trust. (2024, September). 2023-24 Report to Our Community. Retrieved from Jefferson
Land Trust: https://s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/cdn.saveland.org/wp-
content/uploads/2024/09/11174113/2023-2024_R2C-Final.pdf.
Environment
Caulkins, N. (2016, October 13). Approaching Your County’s Post Hirst Water Resource Responsibilities.
Retrieved March 2018, from MRSC: http://mrsc.org/Home/Stay-Informed/MRSC-
Insight/October/Post-Hirst-Water-Resource-Responsibilities.aspx.
Chang, M. L. (2023). Chapter 27. Northwest. Retrieved from Fifth National Climate Assessment, U.S.
Global Change Research Program: https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/chapter/27/.
Climate Impacts Group. (2015). State of Knowledge Report: Climate Change in Puget Sound. University
of Washington. Retrieved March 2018, from https://cig.uw.edu/resources/special-reports/ps-sok/.
Dvorkin, J. (2018, January 23). Legislature Addresses Whatcom County v. Hirst. Retrieved March 2018,
from MRSC: http://mrsc.org/Home/Stay-Informed/MRSC-Insight/January-2018/Legislature-
Addresses-Hirst-v-Whatcom-County.aspx.
Raymond, C. M. (2022). Climate Mapping for a Resilient Washington. Retrieved from Prepared by the
Climate Impacts Group, University of Washington, Seattle and Research Data & Computing
Services, University of Idaho, Moscow.: https://cig.uw.edu/resources/analysis-tools/climate-mapping-
for-a-resilient-washington/.
Washington Department of Commerce. (2024, January 11). Climate Element Planning Guidance.
Retrieved from www.commerce.wa.gov: https://www.commerce.wa.gov/serving-
communities/growth-management/growth-management-topics/climate-change-2/.
REFERENCES, PHOTOS, ACRONYMS, & GLOSSARY
Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan R–8 Public Hearing Draft April 2026
Washington Department of Ecology. (2016). Focus on Water Availability: Quilcene-Snow Watershed,
WRIA 17. Ecology publication number: 11-11-022. Retrieved October 2024, from
https://www.co.jefferson.wa.us/DocumentCenter/View/6059/2011-Focus-on-Water-Availability.
Washington Department of Ecology. (2024a). Hirst Decision. Retrieved October 2024, from
https://ecology.wa.gov/Water-Shorelines/Water-supply/Water-rights/Case-law/Hirst-decision.
Washington Department of Ecology. (2024b). Streamflow Restoration. Retrieved October 2024, from
https://ecology.wa.gov/Water-Shorelines/Water-supply/Improving-streamflows.
Transportation and Appendix C Transportation Technical Document
Principal technical analysis and mapping was provided by Transpo Group under contract with
Jefferson County in 2024 and 2025. In addition, state, county and other sources were considered,
including but not limited to:
Jefferson County. (2010). Non-motorized and Recreational Trails Plan. Retrieved from
http://www.co.jefferson.wa.us/440/Non-Motorized-Transportation-Recreationa.
Jefferson County Public Works. (2024, November). 2025-2030 Six-Year Transportaton Improvement
Program. Retrieved from https://www.co.jefferson.wa.us/444/6-Yr-TIP.
Jefferson County Public Works. (2024, November). Transportation Improvement Program (TIP)
Background. Retrieved from 6-Year Transportation Improvement Program:
https://www.co.jefferson.wa.us/444/6-Yr-TIP.
Jefferson Transit Authority. (2022). 2022 Long Range Plan. Retrieved from
https://www.jeffersontransit.com/DocumentCenter/Index/67.
Jefferson Transit Authority. (2024). Climate Action Plan. Retrieved from
https://www.jeffersontransit.com/DocumentCenter/Index/67.
Jefferson Transit Authority. (2024). Transit Development Plan 2024-2029. Retrieved from
https://www.jeffersontransit.com/DocumentCenter/Index/67.
Peninsula Regional Transportation Planning Organization (PRTPO). (2024). Peninsula Regional
Transportation Plan Online. Retrieved from https://www.prtpo.org/rtp-online.
Port of Port Townsend. (2014, July). Jefferson County International Airport Master Plan Update.
Retrieved from Port of Port Townsend: http://portofpt.com/wp-content/uploads/JCIA-MPU-
Complete-Report.pdf.
Transpo Group. (2008, October). Quimper Peninsula Travel Demand Model.
Transpo Group. (2012, January). Quimper Peninsula Transportation Study and Model. Retrieved from
Jefferson County: http://www.co.jefferson.wa.us/443/Transportation-Planning.
Washington State Department of Ecology. (2016, October). Washington's Greenhouse Gas Inventory.
Retrieved from ecology.wa.gov: https://ecology.wa.gov/Research-Data/Scientific-reports/Statewide-
greenhouse-gas-inventory
Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). (2023). 2023 Collisions in Jefferson County:
Jefferson County Collision Data Summary. Retrieved from
http://www.wsdot.wa.gov/mapsdata/crash/collisionannual.htm.
REFERENCES, PHOTOS, ACRONYMS, & GLOSSARY
Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan R–9 Public Hearing Draft April 2026
Economic Development
E.D. Hovee & Company, LLC. (2010, October). Jefferson County Joint Economic Development Planning:
Existing Conditions Report. Prepared for: Jefferson County, City of Port Townsend, Port of Port
Townsend. Retrieved from EDC Team Jefferson: https://irp-
cdn.multiscreensite.com/5205be66/files/uploaded/Existing_Conditions_Report.pdf.
E.D. Hovee & Company, LLC. (2021). Jefferson County Economic Development Existing Conditions
Report. Prepared for EDC Team Jefferson.
EDC Team Jefferson. (2010). Business Cluster Report. Retrieved from https://irp-
cdn.multiscreensite.com/5205be66/files/uploaded/2010_Team_Jefferson_Business_Cluster_Report.p
df.
EDC Team Jefferson. (2017). Strategic Priorities. Retrieved from EDC Team Jefferson:
https://www.edcteamjefferson.org/strategic-priorities.
Jefferson County. (2012). Jefferson County Resolution No. 01-12: Joint Resolution of the Jefferson County
Board of County Commissioners, the Port Townsend City Council. Port Townsend, Washington:
Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners. Retrieved from
http://test.co.jefferson.wa.us/WebLinkExternal/0/doc/1094760/Page1.aspx.
Jefferson County Treasurer. (2025, January). December 2024 Revenue Report. Retrieved from
https://test.co.jefferson.wa.us/WeblinkExternal/0,0,0,0,0/edoc/9446857/2024-
12_DECEMBER_Treasurer_RevenueReports.pdf.
Joint Economic Development Strategy (JEDS)—Working Draft. (2011). A Coordinated Effort of Jefferson
county, the City of Port Townsend, & the Port of Port Townsend, with Support & Assistance from the
Economic Development Council of Jefferson County (“Team Jefferson”). December 14, 2011. Adopted
by Joint Resolution of the Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners, the Port Townsend
City Council, and the Port of Port Townsend Port Commission, Approving a Process to Coordinate
and Promote Enhanced Inter-Jurisdictional Coordination in Regards to Regional Economic
Development Committee. Jefferson County Resolution No. 01-12; City of Port Townsend Resolution
No. 12-002; Port of Port Townsend Resolution No. 571-11.
North Hood Canal Chamber of Commerce. (2025). Visitor Center.
https://emeraldtowns.com/home/chamber/visitors-center/.
North Olympic Development Council (NODC). (2016). Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy
2011-2015. Retrieved from Economic Development: http://www.noprcd.org/economic-development
Olympic Peninsula Tourism Commission. (2024). 2023 Value of Tourism to Jefferson County. Retrieved
from https://olympicpeninsula.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/Value-of-Tourism-to-Jefferson-
County-2023.pdf.
Port of Port Townsend. (2017). Quilcene Community Wastewater Feasibility Study. Retrieved from Port
of Port Townsend: http://portofpt.com/current-port-projects/quilcene-community-wastewater-
feasibility-study/.
Port of Port Townsend. (2024). http://portofpt.com/.
U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). (2022). Economic Profile for Jefferson. Retrieved from
https://apps.bea.gov/regional/bearfacts/?_gl=1*qstgom*_ga*MTkyNzg2ODQ2MC4xNzE4NzM1ODAz*
_ga_J4698JNNFT*MTcxODczNTgwMi4xLjEuMTcxODczNjEzMC42MC4wLjA.
REFERENCES, PHOTOS, ACRONYMS, & GLOSSARY
Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan R–10 Public Hearing Draft April 2026
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). (2024, March). Unadjusted Unemployment Rate (Series
LNU04000000). Retrieved from BLS Data Viewer:
https://data.bls.gov/dataViewer/view/timeseries/LNU04000000.
U.S. Census. (2021). County Business Patterns (CB2100CBP). Retrieved from
https://data.census.gov/table?q=jefferson%20county%20washington%20CB2100CBP&g=050XX00U
S53031&y=2021.
U.S. Economic Development Administration. (2025). Distressed Area Recompete Pilot Program
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Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan R–13 Public Hearing Draft April 2026
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REFERENCES, PHOTOS, ACRONYMS, & GLOSSARY
Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan R–14 Public Hearing Draft April 2026
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Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan R–16 Public Hearing Draft April 2026
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Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan R–17 Public Hearing Draft April 2026
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REFERENCES, PHOTOS, ACRONYMS, & GLOSSARY
Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan R–18 Public Hearing Draft April 2026
Photo Credits
Individual photo credits are noted throughout this plan; photos are
courtesy of the following individuals and organizations or included
under fair use provisions of U.S. copyright law:
▶ BERK Consulting
▶ Carolyn Gallaway
▶ Casey Scalf via the Jefferson Landworks Collaborative
▶ The Chamber of Jefferson County
▶ Collection of the Jefferson County Historical Society
▶ Google Earth and Street View
▶ Jefferson County
▶ Jefferson County Public Health
▶ Joel Peterson
▶ Kitsap Sun
▶ North Hood Canal Chamber of Commerce
▶ Peninsula Housing Authority (PHA)
▶ Pleasant Harbor Marina
▶ Port Ludlow Village Council
▶ Port of Port Townsend
▶ Steve Schauer
▶ Windermere Real Estate
▶ Zillow
REFERENCES, PHOTOS, ACRONYMS, & GLOSSARY
Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan R–19 Public Hearing Draft April 2026
Acronyms
ACS American Community Survey
ADA Americans with Disabilities Act
ADO Associate Development Organization
ADU Accessory dwelling unit
Ag Code Jefferson County Code, sections 18.15, 18.20.030, 18.30 and 18.45
AMI Area Median Income
ANSI American National Standards Institute
ATRSH Annual Transit Revenue Service Hour
BEA U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis
BIPOC Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
BLS Bureau of Labor Statistics
BPA Bonneville Power Administration
BSAP Brinnon Subarea Plan
BTOP Broadband Technology Opportunity Program
CAC Jefferson County / Port Townsend Climate Action Committee
CARA Critical Aquifer Recharge Area
CBV Caswell-Brown Village
CAO Critical Areas Ordinance
CDC National Center for Disease Control and Prevention
CDFI Community Development Financial Institutions
CDP Census Designated Place
CGSA Cellular Geographical Service Area
CHA Community Health Assessment
CHAS HUD Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy
CHIP Community Health Improvement Plan
CMT Culturally Modified Tree
CPPs Countywide Planning Policies
CRS National Flood Insurance Program’s Community Rating System.
CSGA Cellular Geographical Service Area
CWSP Coordinated Water System Plan for Jefferson County
DAHP Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation
dBA Decibels, A-weighted
DEIS Draft Environmental Impact Statement
DNL Day-Night Average Sound Level
REFERENCES, PHOTOS, ACRONYMS, & GLOSSARY
Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan R–20 Public Hearing Draft April 2026
DNR Washington Department of Natural Resources
DOE Washington State Department of Ecology
DOH Washington State Department of Health
DSEIS Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
DSL Digital subscriber line
DU Dwelling Unit
ECOZ Emerald Coast Opportunity Zone
EDA U.S. Department of Commerce Economic Development Administration
EDC Economic Development Council of Jefferson County
EIS Environmental Impact Statement
ELOS Effective Level of Service
EMS Emergency Medical Services
EPA United States Environmental Protection Agency
EPF Essential Public Facility
ERAP
ERU Equivalent Residential Unit
ESA Endangered Species Act
ESB Engrossed Senate Bill
ESD Washington State Employment Security Department
EV Electric Vehicle
FAA Federal Aviation Administration
FAR Federal Aviation Regulations
FCC Federal Communications Commission
FD Fire District
FGTS Washington State Freight and Goods Transportation System
FEIS Final Environmental Impact Statement
FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency
FHWA Federal Highway Administration
FSEIS Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
GA General Aviation
GED General Educational Development
GHG Greenhouse Gas
GIS Geographic Information System
GMA Growth Management Act, RCW Chapter 36.70A
GMSC Growth Management Steering Committee
GPD Gallons per Day
GSP City of Port Townsend’s General Sewer Plan
IDRB Industrial Development Revenue Bond
HAPT Washington State Department of Commerce’s Housing for All Planning Tool
REFERENCES, PHOTOS, ACRONYMS, & GLOSSARY
Jefferson County Comprehensive Plan R–21 Public Hearing Draft April 2026
HB House Bill
HHEJC Habitat for Humanity of East Jefferson County
HSS Highway of Statewide Significance
HUD United States Department of Housing and Urban Development
ILB Industrial Land Bank
ISP Internet Service Provider
JCC Jefferson County Code
JCIA Jefferson County International Airport
JCPH Jefferson County Public Health
JEDS Joint Economic Development Strategy
JLUS Joint Land Use Study
JPREP Jefferson County Regional Emergency Preparedness Network
JPUD Jefferson County Public Utility District #1
JTA Jefferson Transit Authority
LAMIRD Limited Areas of More Intensive Rural Development
LAUS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
LEED Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
LEHD Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics
LGBTQ+ Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer or Questioning, and Other Related
Identities
LIHTC Federal Low-income Housing Tax Credits
LION Local Investment Opportunity Network
LOB Logical Outer Boundaries
LOS Level of Service
LOSS Large On-Site Sewage Systems
MERU Measurement Equivalent Residential Units
MFI HUD Median Family Income
MMLOS Multimodal Level of Service
MOU Memorandum of Understanding
MID Major Industrial Development
MPR Master Planned Resort
MUTCD Federal Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices
NAVMAGII Naval Magazine Indian Island
NBK Naval Base Kitsap
NMFS National Marine Fisheries Service
NMRTP Non-Motorized Transportation and Recreational Trails Plan
NoaNet Northwest Open Access Network
NOAA National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
NODC North Olympic Development Council
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NPIAS FAA’s National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems
NRCS US Department of Agriculture Natural Resource Conservation Service
NTIA National Telecommunications and Information Administration
OFM Washington State Office of Financial Management
OPAV Option to Purchase at Agricultural Values
OSPI Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction
OWDC Olympic Workforce Development Council
PROS Plan Jefferson County Parks, Recreation, and Open Space Comprehensive Plan
PDD Peninsula Development District (currently merging with NODC)
PHA Peninsula Housing Authority
PIT Point in Time (Commerce’s PIT Counts)
PLOS Planned Level of Service
PROS Parks, Recreation, and Open Space
PRTPO Peninsula Regional Transportation Planning Organization
PSH Permanent Supportive Housing
PUD Public Utility District
PUMS (ACS) Public Use Microdata Sample
QCEW Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages
RCO Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office
RCW Revised Code of Washington
RDI Racially Disparate Impacts
REPI U.S. Navy’s Readiness and Environmental Protection Integration
RRFB Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons
RTP Regional Transportation Plan
RUS Rural Utilities Service
RV Recreational Vehicle
SEIS Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement
SEPA State Environmental Policy Act, Chapter 43.21c RCW
SLR Sea Level Rise
SMA Shoreline Management Act, Chapter 90.58 RCW
SMA Satellite Management Agency
SWMP Jefferson County Solid Waste Management Plan
SMP Shoreline Master Program
SR State Route
STEP Emergency Shelters, Transitional Housing, Emergency Housing, and Permanent
Supportive Housing
SWOT Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
TDM Transportation Demand Management
TIP Transportation Improvement Program
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UDC Unified Development Code, Title 18 of the Jefferson County Code
UGA Urban Growth Area
USDA United States Department of Agriculture
USGS United States Geological Survey
VMT Vehicle Miles Traveled
WAC Washington Administrative Code
WCRER University of Washington Center for Real Estate Research
WISAARD Washington Information System for Architectural and Archaeological Records Data
WRIA Water Resource Inventory Areas
WRIA 16 Skokomish-Dosewallips Watershed
WRIA 17 Quilcene-Snow Instream Resources Protection and Watershed Management
Program, Chapter 173-517 WAC
WRIA 20 Sol Duc-Hoh Watershed
WRIA 21 Queets-Quinault Watershed
WSBO Washington State Broadband Office
WSDOT Washington State Department of Transportation
WSF Washington State Ferries
WSU Washington State University
WUCC Water Utility Coordinating Committee
WUI Wildland Urban Interface
WUTC State of Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission
ZHVI Zillow Housing Value Index
ZORI Zillow Observed Rental Index
Land Use/Zoning Designations
AEPF Airport Essential Public Facility
AL-20 Agricultural Land of Local Importance (Local Agriculture)
AP-20 Prime Agricultural Land (Commercial Agriculture)
CC Convenience Crossroads
CF-80 Commercial Forest
CWMEPF County Waste Management Essential Public Facility
EPF Essential Public Facilities
EPF-A Essential Public Facilities – Airport
EPF-WM Essential Public Facility – Waste Management
GC General Crossroads
HI Heavy Industrial
IF Inholding Forest
JPREP Jefferson County Regional Emergency Preparedness Network
LI Light Industrial
LI/C Light Industrial/Commercial
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LI/M Light Industrial/Manufacturing
MPR-GR Master Planned Resort – Golf Resort
MPR-OSR Master Planned Resort – Open Space Reserve
MPR-PH Master Planned Resort – Pleasant Harbor
MPR-MF-10 Master Planned Resort – Multifamily
MPR—MV Master Planned Resort – Maritime Village
MPR-RA Master Planned Resort – Recreation Area
MPR-RC/CF Master Planned Resort – Resort Complex/Community Facilities
MPR-SF-4 Master Planned Resort – Single-Family
MPR-SFT Master Planned Resort – Single-Family Tract (1:2.5)
MPR-VC Master Planned Resort – Village Commercial Center
MRLO / CF Mineral Resource Lands Overlay District and Commercial Forest
NC Neighborhood/Visitor Crossroads
PPR Parks, Preserves, and Recreation
RBIZ Forest Resource-Based Industrial Zone
RF-40 Rural Forest
RI Resource Industrial – see also RBIZ Forest Resource-Based Industrial
RR Rural Residential
RR-5 Rural Residential – 1 DU/5 Acres
RR-10 Rural Residential – 1 DU/10 Acres
RR-20 Rural Residential – 1 DU/20 Acres
RVC Rural Village Center
SRT Small-scale Recreation and Tourist
UGA-C / UC UGA Commercial
UGA-HDR / UHDR UGA High Density Residential (19-24)
UGA-LDR / ULDR UGA Low Density Residential (4-8)
UGA-MDR / UMDR UGA Medium Density Residential (9-18)
UGA-P UGA Public
UGA-VC UGA Visitor Oriented Commercial
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Glossary
Introduction
This glossary is meant to support the Comprehensive Plan with definitions of key terms. State
legislation, implementing state rules, case law, or supporting plans and regulations may change over
time. The following guiding principles are intended to assist in the review and application of the
glossary and interpretation of the plan:
▶ The County may use the most current definitions in Chapter 36.70A RCW or WAC 365-196 or other
related legislation or rules to interpret this Comprehensive Plan.
▶ The County may consider judicial interpretations regarding the meaning and interpretation of
Comprehensive Plan terms.
▶ The County may consider terms as defined in related plans or supporting documents, including but
not limited to, the County-wide Planning Policy, supporting County system plans for services and
infrastructure, capital and transportation improvement programs, budgets, and other documents.
▶ The County may consider terms as defined in its Unified Development Code.
▶ Where terms are not defined in this plan or other relevant sources, the County may consult general
use, planning, legal, or other dictionaries in common use.
Terms
Accessory Dwelling Unit: A dwelling unit located on the same lot as a single-family housing unit,
duplex, triplex, townhome, or other primary housing unit.
▶ An attached accessory dwelling unit is an accessory dwelling unit located within or attached to a
single-family housing unit, duplex, triplex, townhome, or other housing unit.
▶ A detached accessory dwelling unit is an accessory dwelling unit that consists partly or entirely of
a building that is separate and detached from a single-family housing unit, duplex, triplex,
townhome, or other housing unit and is on the same property.
Accessory Use: A use of land or building or a portion thereof that is demonstrably subordinate and
incidental to the primary use of the premises.
“Act”: The Growth Management Act as enacted in chapter 17, Laws of 1990, 1st Ex. Sess, and chapter 32,
Laws of 1991, 1st Special Sess., State of Washington (see Growth Management Act).
Active Transportation: Forms of pedestrian mobility including walking or running, the use of a mobility
assistive device such as a wheelchair, bicycling and cycling irrespective of the number of wheels, and
the use of small personal devices such as foot scooters or skateboards. Active transportation includes
both traditional and electric assist bicycles and other devices. Planning for active transportation must
consider and address accommodation pursuant to the Americans with disabilities act and the distinct
needs of each form of active transportation.
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Adequate Public Facilities: Facilities that have the capacity to serve development without decreasing
levels of service below locally established minimums. In Jefferson County, adequate public facilities are
synonymous with adopted levels of service.
Adjacent Property Owners: The owners of real property, as shown by the records of the County
Assessor, located within three hundred feet of any portion of the boundary of the property proposed for
division. If the owner of the real property which is proposed for division owns another parcel or parcels
of real property which lie adjacent to the real property proposed for division, adjacent property owners
shall mean owners of real property located within three hundred feet of any portion of the boundaries
of such adjacently located parcels of real property.
Adjacent: A lot or parcel of land that shares or touches all or part of a common lot line with another lot
or parcel of land. Parcels that are cater-corner to one another also are considered adjacent.
Administrative Design Review: A development permit process whereby an application is reviewed,
approved, or denied by the planning director or the planning director's designee based solely on
objective design and development standards without a public predecision hearing, unless such review
is otherwise required by state or federal law, or the structure is a designated landmark or historic
district established under a local preservation ordinance. A county may utilize public meetings,
hearings, or voluntary review boards to consider, recommend, or approve requests for variances from
locally established design review standards.
Adult Family Home: A home facility that provides care for between two to six senior citizens or disabled
persons who are unable to live independently.
Affordable Housing: HB 1220, RCW 36.70A.030, and Jefferson County CPP #6 define affordable housing
as residential housing whose monthly costs, including utilities other than telephone, do not exceed 30%
of the monthly income of a household whose income is:
▶ Rental housing: 60% of the median household income adjusted for household size, for the county
where the household is located, as reported by the United States Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD).
▶ Owner-occupied housing: 80% of the median household income adjusted for household size, for
the county where the household is located, as reported by HUD.
Agriculture: Improvements or activities associated with the growing, cultivation, and/or harvesting of
crops and livestock, including those activities necessary to prepare the agricultural commodity for
shipment.
Agricultural Land: Land primarily devoted to the commercial production of horticultural, viticulture,
floriculture, dairy, apiary, vegetable, or animal products or of berries, grain, hay, straw, turf, seed,
Christmas trees not subject to the excise tax imposed by RCW 84.33.100 through 84.33.140, or livestock,
and that has long-term commercial significance or has local significance for agricultural production.
Airport Approach Zone: An imaginary “zone” extending upward and outward from a runway’s
centerline within which there may be additional height restrictions and/or limited land uses.
Annexation: The act of incorporating an area into the domain of a city.
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Aquaculture: Improvements or activities associated with the culture or farming of food fish, shellfish, or
other aquatic plants or animals, including those activities necessary to prepare the aquacultural
commodity for shipment.
Aquifer: A saturated geologic formation that will yield a sufficient quantity of water to serve as a private
or public water supply.
Aquifer Recharge Areas: Areas where soils and geological materials permit the infiltration of natural or
artificial sources of water in rates and quantities sufficient to recharge ground water reserves. Critical
aquifer recharge areas are areas with a critical recharging effect on aquifers used for potable water,
including areas where an aquifer that is a source of drinking water is vulnerable to contamination that
would affect the potability of the water, or is susceptible to reduced recharge.
Arterial, Minor: A street with signals at important intersections, stop signs on the side streets and that
collects and distributes traffic to and from collector streets.
Arterial, Principal: A street with access control, channelized intersections, restricted parking, and that
collects and distributes traffic to and from minor arterials.
Assisted Housing: Owner-occupied or rental housing which is subject to restrictions on rents or sales
prices as a result of one or more project-based government subsidies. Assisted housing does not
include holders of non-project-based Section 8 Certificates.
Assisted Living Facility: Residences for the elderly that provide room, meals, personal care, supervision
of self-administered medication and other services such as recreational activities, financial services and
transportation.
Best Available Science: With regard to designating and protecting critical areas, best available science
refers to the utilization of the most current, widely-accepted scientific data, research, studies and/or
reports in making land use and policy decisions.
Best Management Practices (BMP): State-of-the-art technology as applied to a specific problem.
BMPs are often required as part of major land development projects. BMPs represent physical,
institutional, or strategic approaches to environmental problems, particularly with respect to nonpoint
source pollution control.
Block: A group of lots, tracts, parcels, or sites located within well-defined and fixed boundaries such as
roads.
Board: The Jefferson County Board of County Commissioners, (BOCC).
Bond and Levying Financing: A method employed by local governments for generating revenue
through either the sale of municipal bonds, which require 60 percent voter approval, or by increasing
property tax, which requires a simple majority.
Buffers: An area, unit or strip of land designed so as to shield, separate or protect one type of land use
from another with which it is incompatible or to protect environmentally sensitive areas. Buffers
typically consist of open areas, landscaped areas, walls, fences, berms or any combination thereof which
help to minimize conflicts from noise, light or other nuisances.
Building: Any structure used or intended for supporting or sheltering any use or occupancy.
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Built Environment: A combination of buildings and related activities along with associated impervious
surfaces, infrastructure, parking and landscaping.
Capital Improvements: Projects to create, expand or modify a capital facility that have a minimum cost
of $15,000 and have a life expectancy of at least five years. Capital Improvements include facilities such
as utility systems, landfills, public buildings, streets, sidewalks, drainage and major equipment.
Capital Improvements Program (CIP): A plan for future capital expenditures which identifies each
capital project, its anticipated start and completion dates, and allocates existing funds and known
revenue sources over a six-year period.
Categorical Exemptions: Development actions, enumerated in WAC 197-11-800, which have been
legislatively determined not to have significant adverse environmental impacts, and therefore do not
require environmental review or documentation for potential impacts under the State Environmental
Policy Act.
Certified Local Government (CLG): A program established by the National Historic Preservation Act
that provides technical and financial assistance to preserve historic buildings, sites, neighborhoods and
other places of local importance. A local government that participates in the program and becomes
certified is known as a “certified local government.”
City: The incorporated City of Port Townsend, Washington.
Cluster Development: A development design technique that groups or “clusters” buildings in specific
areas on a site rather than spread evenly throughout the parcel as in a conventional lot-by-lot
development. The remaining land is to remain undeveloped in perpetuity and used for recreation,
common open space, and/or preservation of environmentally critical areas.
Collector: A street that collects traffic from local streets and connects with minor or major arterials.
Commercial Use: An activity that provides merchandise or services for compensation to an owner,
leasee or licensee.
Community Plan: A document that has been prepared by a group of individuals, representing
individual communities, that outline the goals and visions set forth by community residents.
Community Plans provide guidance for the countywide Comprehensive Plan.
Community Sites and Facilities: Sites and facilities provided as a community service including, but not
limited to, parks, open space, recreation facilities, water, and sanitary facilities.
Co-housing (Intentional Communities): Single-family residential developments, subject to the
underlying land use district density, which may contain lots or structures in common ownership
subject to meeting all other applicable provisions of this UDC and if approved under the requirements
of Article VI-M of chapter 18.15 JCC, where applicable
Co-living Housing (UGA): A residential development within the UGA with sleeping units that are
independently rented and lockable and provide living and sleeping space, and residents share kitchen
facilities with other sleeping units in the building.
Comprehensive Plan: A generalized coordinated policy statement of the government body of a city or
county that is adopted pursuant to the Washington State Growth Management Act (Chapter 36.70A
RCW). A document or series of documents prepared by a professional planning staff and planning
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commission that sets forth guidelines and policies for the future development of a specific
geographical area (i.e., city or county).
Concurrency: The provision of capital improvements, infrastructure or facilities at the same time
(concurrent) with a development project so as to maximize efficiency and minimize costs.
Conditional Use: A use that, owing to some special characteristics attendant to its operation or
installation (e.g. potential danger, smoke or noise), is permitted in a district, subject to approval and
special requirements, different from those usual requirements for the district in which the conditional
use may be located.
Condominium: A system of separate ownership of individual units, usually in a multiple tenant
building. A single parcel of property with all the unit owners having a right in common to use the
common elements with separate ownership confined to the individual units.
Congregate Care: Care which caters to those who are unable to provide for themselves and which
provides services such as housekeeping, transportation or other support services.
Congregate Living Facilities (Nontransient): A building or part thereof that does not contain more
than two dwelling units, with 16 or fewer nontransient occupants, and contains sleeping units where
residents share bathroom or kitchen facilities, or both, as regulated under 310.4 Residential Group R-3,
Washington State Building Code.
Consistency: The requirement that subdivision regulations, zoning regulations and capital
improvement programs be consistent with the comprehensive plan and each of its elements, and that
individual land use decisions also be consistent with the plan. The GMA requires that the plan be both
internally consistent and consistent with neighboring jurisdictions.
Contiguous Development: Development of areas next to, adjacent, abutting, or touching one another.
Parcels that are cater-corner to one another also are considered contiguous.
Conversion Option Harvest Plan (COHP): A voluntary plan developed by a landowner and approved by
the local government entity indicating the limits of harvest areas, road locations, and open space.
Cooperative Housing: A multiple unit residential building owned and jointly administered and
maintained by members of a cooperative generally residing in the building.
Cost Burden and Severe Cost Burden: Households that spend more than 30% of their gross income on
housing, including utilities, are considered “cost burdened.” Households spending more than 50% of
their gross income on housing, including utilities, are “severely cost burdened.” Cost burdened
households have less money available for other essentials, like food, clothing, transportation, and
medical care. The 30% and 50% thresholds are set by HUD.
Cottage Industries:
An accessory use within a single-family dwelling or building accessory to a dwelling and is wholly
incidental and subordinate to the residential use of the property.
Limited, small-scale commercial or industrial activity, including fabrication, and that can be
conducted without substantial adverse impact on the residential environment in the vicinity. Some
examples include: dressmaking, baking, weaving, carpentry, cosmetic sales, and sculpting.
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Cottage Housing: Residential units on a lot with a common open space that either: (a) Is owned in
common; or (b) has units owned as condominium units with property owned in common and a
minimum of 20% of the lot size as open space.
County: Jefferson County, Washington.
Countywide Planning Policy (CPP): Written policy statements developed cooperatively between the
County and City of Port Townsend establishing a policy framework to guide development of the
Comprehensive Plan and ensure that it is consistent with the provisions of the Growth Management
Act (Chapter 36.70.210 RCW) and with each other’s Comprehensive Plans.
Courtyard Apartments: Attached dwelling units arranged on two or three sides of a yard or court.
Critical Areas: Areas of substantial importance as unique and vital ecosystems and which are highly
susceptible to adverse impacts associated with development. Under GMA, every county or city must
classify, designate, regulate and protect critical areas which include:
▶ Critical aquifer recharge areas;
▶ Frequently flooded areas;
▶ Geologically hazardous areas;
▶ Fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas; and
▶ Wetlands
CWSP: The Jefferson County Coordinated Water System Plan.
Dark Sky: Denoting or located in a place where the darkness of the night sky is relatively free of
interference from artificial light.
Density: The number of households, persons or dwelling units per unit of land (usually expressed as
“per acre”).
Density Transfer: The transfer of all or part of the permitted density from one parcel to another.
Detached Single-Family House: A residential building on a single lot, designed for occupancy by only
one household and not attached to any other dwelling.
Development: Any man-made change to improved or unimproved real estate, or in use, or extension of
the use of the land for any purpose including, but not limited to, construction, reconstruction,
conversion, structural alteration, relocation, mining, dredging, filling, grading, paving, excavation,
drilling operations, or storage of equipment or vehicles.
Development Regulations: Any controls placed on development or land use activities by a county or
city, including, but not limited to, zoning ordinances, official controls, planned unit development
ordinances, subdivision ordinances, and binding site plan ordinances.
Development Standards: Minimum standards for new development required by local governments for
the provision of roadways, fire and building safety, utilities, storm water, landscaping, and public access.
Domestic Water System: Any system providing an adequate supply of potable water pursuant to RCW
19.27.097 for the intended use of a development.
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Downzoning: A change in the zoning classification of land from a more intensive land use classification
to one of less intensive development, such as a change from commercial to residential zoning.
Duplex: A single structure containing two dwelling units within one building located on a single lot,
which is used or intended to be used as the residence for two families.
Dwelling Unit: A residential living unit that provides complete independent living facilities for one or
more persons and that includes permanent provisions for living, sleeping, eating, cooking, and
sanitation.
Easement: A grant by a property owner to a specific person, party, corporation or entity to use the
owner's property for a specified purpose.
Economic Development: Any development or activity which creates jobs and promotes economic
vitality.
Emergency Housing: Temporary indoor accommodation for individuals or families who are homeless
or at imminent risk of becoming homeless that is intended to address the basic health, food, clothing,
and personal hygiene needs of individuals or families. Emergency housing may or may not require
occupants to enter into a lease or an occupancy agreement.
Emergency Shelter: A facility that provides temporary shelter for individuals or families who are
currently homeless. Emergency shelter may not require occupants to enter into a lease or an
occupancy agreement. Emergency shelter facilities may include day and warming centers that do not
provide overnight accommodations.
Encroachment: Typically refers to the advance of land use(s) or activity upon adjacent and often
incompatible land uses or activity. As used with respect to floodplains, any artificial restriction, physical
object, or obstacles within a floodplain that hinders the passage of water or otherwise affects flood
flows.
Endangered, Threatened or Sensitive Species: Those species of fish and wildlife listed as endangered,
threatened or sensitive by the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service or the National Marine Fisheries Service.
Environmental Justice: The fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race,
color, national origin, or income with respect to development, implementation, and enforcement of
environmental laws, regulations, and policies. Environmental justice includes addressing
disproportionate environmental and health impacts in all laws, rules, and policies with environmental
impacts by prioritizing vulnerable populations and overburdened communities and the equitable
distribution of resources and benefits.
Essential Public Facilities: Important and necessary facilities which provide essential services such as
airports, state educational and/or regional transportation facilities, state or local correctional facilities,
solid waste handling facilities, and in-patient facilities including substance abuse facilities, mental
health facilities and group homes, and which are typically difficult to site because of their potential
adverse effects related to size, hazardous characteristics, noise, or public health and safety.
Existing Area of More Intensive Development: As defined with regard to Engrossed Senate Bill 6094,
an area of more intensive development is one that is clearly identifiable and contained and where there
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is a logical outer boundary delineated predominately by the built environment and that was in
existence:
▶ On July 1, 1990
▶ On the date the County adopted a resolution under RCW 36.70A.040(2); or
▶ On the date OFM certifies the County’s population.
Extremely Low-income Household: A single person, family, or unrelated persons living together whose
adjusted income is at or below 30% of the median household income adjusted for household size, for
the county where the household is located, as reported by HUD.
Fair Share Housing: The concept that seeks to equitably distribute affordable and special-needs
housing proportionately throughout appropriate areas of the County which can accommodate it.
Family: Any number of persons living together as a single housekeeping unit and doing their cooking
on the premises as distinguished from a group occupying a boarding house or rooming house or motel.
Family Wage Jobs: Jobs that pay a wage or salary which can support the typical needs of an average
family.
Farmland of Statewide Importance: Quality farmland that does not meet the criteria to be classified as
prime farmland, but still has the capability to produce high crop yields when managed appropriately.
First People: Native American groups that inhabited Jefferson County prior to the arrival of European
settlers and explorers.
Fish and Wildlife Habitat Areas: Areas that are designated as critical areas due to the presence of
specified animal species.
Fiveplex: A residential building with five attached dwelling units.
Flood Fringe: That portion of the floodplain that lies between the floodway and the outer limits (i.e.,
boundary) of the 100-year floodplain.
Floodplain: Synonymous with the 100-year floodplain, a floodplain is land that is susceptible to being
inundated by stream-derived waters with a 1% chance of being equaled or exceeded in any given year.
Floodway: Those portions of the area of a river valley lying streamward from the outer limits of a water-
course upon which flood waters are carried during periods of flooding that occur with reasonable
regularity, although not necessarily annually, said floodway being identified, under normal conditions
by a change in surface soil conditions or changes in types or quality of vegetative ground cover
conditions. The floodway doesn’t include lands that can be reasonably expected to be protected from
flood waters by flood control devices maintained by or maintained under licenses from the federal
government, the State, or political subdivisions of the State.
Forestland: Land devoted primarily to the growing trees for long-term commercial timber production
on land that can be economically and practically managed for such production, including Christmas
trees, subject to the excise tax imposed under RCW 84.33.100 through 84.33.140, for commercial
purposes, and that has long-term commercial significance.
Forest Practices: Any activity conducted on or directly pertaining to forest land and relating to
growing, harvesting, or processing timber, including, but not limited to: road and trail construction;
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harvesting; final and intermediate; pre-commercial thinning; reforestation; fertilization; prevention and
suppression of diseases and insects; salvage of trees; and brush control. Forest practices do not include
preparatory work, such as tree marking, surveying and road flagging, or removal or harvest of incidental
vegetation from forest lands such as berries, ferns, greenery, mistletoe, herbs, mushrooms, and other
products which cannot normally be expected to result in damage to forest soils, timber or public
resources (see Chapter 222-16-010(21) WAC).
Forest Transition Overlay (FTO): An overlay district designation that creates a transitional area
between Forest Lands and pre-existing high density residential land uses in order to minimize the
potential for conflict and incompatibility.
Forestry: The management, protection, production, cultivation and transporting of timber resources to
ensure the continuous production of wood and wood products.
Fourplex: A residential building with four attached dwelling units.
Frequently Flooded Areas: Lands in the floodplain subject to at least a 1% or greater chance of flooding
in any given year, or within areas subject to flooding due to high groundwater. These areas include, but
are not limited to, streams, rivers, lakes, coastal areas, wetlands, and areas where high groundwater
forms ponds on the ground surface. Frequently flooded areas perform important hydrologic functions
and may present a risk to persons and property.
Fully Contained Community: A fully contained community which supports a mix of uses that provide
jobs, housing and services to the residents of the community and pursuant to the criteria set forth in
RCW 36.70A.350.
Functional Plans: Planning documents which establish long-range goals and objectives to guide
County (or a city’s) operations and capital development requests. These plans typically represent ideal
goals for specific County departments in providing services and facilities.
Geographic Information Systems (GIS): An advanced computerized information system, capable of
storing, organizing, analyzing and retrieving data and linking it to a map.
Geologically Hazardous Areas: Areas that, because of their susceptibility to erosion, sliding,
earthquake, or other geological events, are not suited to the siting of commercial, residential, or
industrial development consistent with public health or safety concerns.
Grandfathering: A process which permits the continuance of a land use or activity which, at the time of
establishment, was a permitted, legally created use but may be an incompatible use upon the
reclassification of underlying land use or zoning. (see also Legal existing, non-conforming uses).
Ground Water: All water found beneath the ground surface, including slowly moving subsurface water
present in aquifers and recharge areas.
Growth Management: A method to control the amount, type and rate of growth and development and
channel it into designated areas in order to minimize adverse environmental and fiscal impacts and
maximize the health, safety, and welfare benefits to the residents of the community.
Growth Management Act (GMA): The Growth Management Act as enacted in chapter 17, Laws of 1990,
1st Ex. Sess, and chapter 32, Laws of 1991, 1st Special Sess., State of Washington (see Growth
Management Act).
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Hazardous Substances, or Dangerous Wastes: Substances that pose a present or potential hazard to
human health or environment when improperly used, stored, transported or disposed of. Hazardous
substances include those materials identified as hazardous waste in Title 40 CFR 261 or defined as
hazardous substances in Title 40 CFR 302, and Chapter 173-303 WAC.
HB 1110: HB 1110, often referred to as the “middle housing” bill, focuses on expanding housing
affordability by requiring many cities in the state to allow a broader range of housing types in areas that
previously allowed predominantly detached homes. These broader housing types generally focus on
“middle housing” (e.g., duplex, triplex, fourplex, cottage housing, townhouse). Jefferson County has
chosen to implement these changes within the unincorporated Irondale and Port Hadlock UGA,
consistent with Commerce’s model ordinance for Tier 3 communities (e.g., population of less than
25,000).
HB 1181: HB 1181 makes significant changes to the GMA to incorporate climate change into local
comprehensive plans. Key changes include:
▶ Adding a 14th planning goal to the GMA related to climate change and resiliency.
▶ The Land Use Element must designate the proposed general distribution, location, and extent of
green spaces and forests within the UGA; prioritize environmental justice (including efforts to avoid
creating or worsening environmental health disparities); incorporate urban planning approaches
that reduce VMT without increasing greenhouse gases elsewhere in the state; and reducing and
mitigating the risk to lives and property posed by wildfires by using land use planning tools.
▶ The Transportation Element must incorporate multimodal level of service into land use
assumptions used in estimating travel; incorporate active transportation facilities and multimodal
level of service, consistent with environmental justice goals, into facilities and services needs; and
prioritize future facilities and services that will provide the greatest multimodal safety benefit within
forecasts of multimodal transportation demand and needs that inform the transportation element.
▶ Comprehensive plans must include a climate and resiliency element, which includes sub-elements
for resiliency greenhouse gas emissions reduction and for resiliency. The resiliency sub-element is
mandatory for all counties and cities fully planning under the GMA (including Jefferson County).
Communities can include these as a standalone element or integrated into other chapters /
elements. The resiliency sub-element must include goals, policies, and programs that identify,
protect, and enhance natural areas and communities to foster resiliency to climate impacts and
address natural hazards created or exacerbated by climate change (a natural hazard mitigation
plan or similar plan that meets certain requirements may be adopted by reference to satisfy this
sub-element). The greenhouse gas emissions reduction sub-element is mandatory for the state’s 11
most populous counties and their cities (6,000 population and above as of April 1, 2021, per OFM
estimates), which does not include Jefferson County.
HB 1220: HB 1220 requires local jurisdictions to plan for and accommodate housing affordable to all
economic segments of the population, including moderate, low, very low, and extremely low income, as
well as emergency shelters and permanent supportive housing, when they update their local housing
element. The bill mandates that comprehensive plans identify land use capacity, barriers, and programs
to address housing shortage, and introduces an equity lens to require jurisdictions to assess and
address racially disparate impacts, displacement, and exclusion in housing, identify areas at high risk of
displacement, and establish anti-displacement policies.
HB 1337: HB 1337 requires fully planning cities and counties under the GMA to revise their zoning
regulations to allow two ADUs per lot in UGAs (both attached, both detached, or one attached and one
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detached). It prohibits restrictive local requirements (e.g., jurisdiction may not require owner
occupancy, must allow separate sale of ADUs, may not charge more than 50% of impact fees charged
for the principal unit, limits the use of design standards) and revises requirements for height, setbacks,
maximum size limits, parking, and other regulations. Jurisdictions must implement the changes within
six months after their next periodic comprehensive plan update (the 2025 Periodic Update for Jefferson
County).
Highly Impacted Communities: A community designated by the department of health based on
cumulative impact analyses in RCW 19.405.140 or a community located in census tracts that are fully or
partially on "Indian country" as defined in 18 U.S.C. Sec. 1151.
Historically Marginalized Communities: Include, but are not limited to, native and Indigenous peoples,
people of color, immigrants and refugees, people with low incomes, those with disabilities and health
conditions, and people with limited English proficiency.
Home Occupations: Home-based businesses that are secondary and incidental to the primary
residential use of the structure, provide supplemental income for a family, consist of limited-scale
service or fabrication, and are limited to mail order and phone sales with off-site delivery.
Household: A household includes a group of people living within the same housing unit. This can be a
person living alone, a family, or a group of unrelated people sharing a housing unit. Those living in
group quarters, such as a college dormitory, military barrack, or nursing home, are not considered to be
living in households. Households are further broken down as either family or nonfamily.
HUD: The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). This is the entity responsible for
federal housing programs, such as Housing Choice Vouchers (also known as Section 8 vouchers) which
provide rental assistance. HUD sets income limits for metropolitan areas and counties across the
country that determine eligibility for income-restricted housing units. HUD also sets thresholds to
define terms such as “affordable” and “cost burden.
HUD Area Median Family Income: Refers to the HUD Area Median Family Household Income (MFI or
AMI) which varies by household size. MFI is a different measure than median household income from
the ACS and is not comparable because median household income from the ACS includes all
households, not just family households.
Hydraulic Project Approval: A permit from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW)
that you need before you construct a project or conduct other work activities in or near the water.
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Impact Fee: A fee or exaction imposed on developers to pay for the costs to the community of
providing services to a new development. It is a means of providing funds for financing new
improvements without resorting to deficit financing. The Growth Management Act authorizes
imposition of impact fees on new development and sets the conditions under which they may be
imposed.
Impervious Surface: A hard-surfaced area that either prevents or retards the entry of water into the soil
mantle under natural conditions; a constructed hard surfaced area that causes water to run off the
surface in greater quantities or at an increased rate of flow from the flow present under natural
conditions prior to development. Impervious surfaces include, but are not limited to: roofs; walkways;
patios; driveways; parking lots or storage areas; concrete or asphalt paving; gravel roads; packed
earthen materials; and oiled or macadam surfaces which similarly impede the natural infiltration of
storm water.
Incentive (Bonus) Zoning: The granting of additional development capacity or bonuses, via methods
such as smaller lot sizes, in exchange for the developer’s provision of a public benefit or amenity, such
as open space or a public plaza.
Inclusionary Housing: An affordable housing production strategy that seeks to provide a specified
number of affordable and low-income units within new housing developments. Inclusionary housing
units are generally provided through density bonus incentives, requirements for cash contributions to a
pool or minimum percentages of affordable units, or combinations of requirements and incentives.
Income-Restricted Housing: Refers to housing units that are only available to households with
incomes at or below a set income limit and are offered for rent or sale at below-market rates.
Industrial Use: Any activity involved in the production, processing, manufacturing, fabrication, or
assembling of goods and materials, including the storage of material used in the industrial process.
Warehousing and distribution centers are also considered industrial activities.
Infill Development: Development consisting of either (1) construction on one or more lots in an area
which is mostly developed, or (2) new construction between two existing structures.
Infrastructure: The basic facilities and services necessary to sustain commercial, residential or industrial
uses including public utilities such as water, sewer, roads, power or communications service.
Instream Flow: A base flow adopted into Washington State regulations used to condition water rights.
A water right for instream resources such as fish, wildlife, recreation, aesthetics, navigation, stock
watering, and water quality with a priority date set when the instream flow rule was adopted.
Intensity: The degree to which the land is used, or level of concentration or activity of land uses such as,
residential, commercial, industrial or recreational.
a. Less intensive use: Refers to a type of land use that is less concentrated, generally results in a
decreased impact or activity, utilizes fewer resources and/or services, or creates less of a demand as,
for example, the difference between commercial and residential land uses.
b. More intensive use: A type of use which generally creates a greater demand for services or
resources, generates increased activity and/or in greater concentrations, and has a greater impact
upon the land use or its environs.
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Inter-Agency Committee (IAC): A committee created by the Washington State Legislature under
Chapter 43.99 RCW to assist in the preservation, conservation, and enhancement of the State’s
recreational resources.
Inter-Jurisdictional: Relationships between governmental jurisdictions such as city, county, state,
tribal, federal government agencies, special purpose districts, water, fire and port districts.
Jefferson County Code (JCC): The Jefferson County Code contains the provisions under which the
County government functions.
Joint Planning Area: The portion of the unincorporated county which is the future growth and service
area of a city and for which planning will occur jointly between the county and that city.
Jefferson County Regional Emergency Preparedness Network (JPREP): is a network of
representatives from county entities, emergency responders and community volunteers that work
together to prepare for emergency or disaster. Quarterly meetings, exercises and other efforts are
coordinated to communicate, plan and practice readiness in the case of different types of emergencies.
Land Banks: Acquisition of land for the purpose of reserving it for specified future development types.
Land Trust: An organization created to acquire and manage land to sustain long-term affordability and
preserve the qualities of the land such as historical significance, environmental value, or agricultural
value. The land trust organization leases development rights to individual or nonprofit organizations
who agree to reasonable limitations on resale profits while maintaining basic owner equity and tenure
rights.
Land Use: A term used to indicate the utilization of any piece of land; The way in which land is being
used.
Legal Existing (Non-conforming) Uses: A lawful use of land that does not comply with the use
regulations for its zoning district but which complied with applicable regulations at the time the use
was established. (See also Grandfathering).
Level of Service (LOS): A qualitative measure of service levels or operating conditions used in reference
to transportation systems, public facilities or services. Typically, level of service means an established
minimum capacity of public facilities or services that must be provided, per unit of demand, or other
appropriate measure of need.
Local Improvement District (LID): A quasi-governmental organization formed by landowners to
finance and construct a variety of physical infrastructure improvements beneficial to its members.
Procedures for establishing a LID in Washington are addressed in RCWs 35.43 through 35.56.
Location Factors: Features which affect where a particular type of commercial or industrial operation
will locate. Location factors include but are not limited to: Proximity to raw materials, supplies, and
services; proximity to markets or educational institutions; access to transportation facilities; labor
market factors (e.g., skill level, education, age distribution, etc.).
Long-Term Commercial Significance: As used with respect to natural resource lands, it includes the
growing capacity, productivity, and soil composition of the land for long-term commercial production,
with consideration of the land's proximity to population areas and the impact of this proximity on the
ability to practically and economically manage the land, and the possibility of more intense uses of the
land.
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Lot: A fractional portion of land having fixed boundaries, and of sufficient area and dimension to meet
the requirements set forth in the Jefferson County Zoning Code.
Lot Consolidation: The process of “merging” or “consolidating” substandard lots under contiguous
ownership into one lot or parcel to create a lot or parcel which meets the current minimum lot size
requirements.
Low-Income Household: A single person, family, or unrelated persons living together whose adjusted
income is at or below 80% of the median income adjusted for household size, for the county where the
household is located as determined by HUD.
Major Industrial Development: Pursuant to RCW 36.70A.365, a master-planned location for a specific
manufacturing, industrial, or commercial business that should be located in an Urban Growth Area but
can be conditionally permitted outside the UGA boundary if it is shown that the activity:
a. requires a parcel of land so large that no suitable parcels are available within an urban growth area;
or
b. is a natural resource-based industry requiring a location near agricultural land, forestland, or
mineral resource land upon which it is dependent.
Furthermore, a major industrial development cannot be for the purpose of commercial shopping
development or multitenant office parks.
Major Transit Stop: A stop on a high-capacity transportation system funded or expanded under the
provisions of Chapter 81.104 RCW, commuter rail stops, stops on rail or fixed guideway systems, or stops
on bus rapid transit routes, including those stops that are under construction.
Manufactured Housing: A manufactured structure or major portion of a building designed for long-
term residential use, which is transportable in one (1) or more sections and is designed for use with or
without a permanent foundation when connected to required utilities.
Manufactured/Mobile Home Park: A development with two or more improved pads or spaces with
required improvements and utilities designed to accommodate manufactured/mobile homes,
according to RCW 59.20.030.
Market-rate Housing: Housing whose cost is determined by the real estate market.
Master Planned Resort (Existing): A self-contained, fully integrated planned unit development in a
setting of significant natural amenities, with a primary focus on destination resort facilities consisting of
short-term visitor accommodations associated with a range of developed on-site indoor or outdoor
recreational facilities and pursuant to the criteria set forth in RCW 36.70A.362.
Median Household Income: Median household income is calculated based on the incomes of all
households, including one-person households.
Middle Housing: Buildings that are compatible in scale, form, and character with single-family houses
and contain two or more attached, stacked, or clustered homes including duplexes, triplexes,
fourplexes, fiveplexes, sixplexes, townhouses, stacked flats, courtyard apartments, and cottage housing.
Mineral Extraction: The removal of minerals including, but not limited to, sand, gravel, shale, rock, coal,
soil, peat or clay from an excavation in the earth.
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Mineral Resources: Include gravel, sand, rock, other aggregates and valuable metallic substances.
Mineral Resource Lands: Lands primarily devoted to the extraction of minerals or that have known
mineral resources or the potential of long-term commercial significance for the extraction of minerals.
Mining: The removal of naturally occurring rock, sand, gravel, and minerals from the earth.
Moderate-income Household: A single person, family, or unrelated persons living together whose
adjusted income is at or below 120% of the median household income adjusted for household size, for
the county where the household is located, as reported by HUD.
Multi-Family Residential Development: Developments containing structures housing two or more
residential dwelling units.
Multimodal: The integration or coordination of multiple types of transportation systems including, but
not limited to, non-motorized transportation, transit, automobile, rail, water or aviation.
Natural Resource-Based Industry: Those industries that are directly dependent upon natural
resources for manufacturing or processing and which typically locate near the natural resource upon
which they are dependent. Examples include, but are not limited to, sawmills or fish canneries.
Natural Resource Lands: Agricultural, forest, aquaculture, and mineral resource lands that have long-
term commercial significance.
Non-Conforming Use: See Grandfathering and/or Legal Existing Uses.
Nonmotorized: Generally, refers to bicycle, pedestrian, and other modes of transportation not involving
a motor vehicle.
Nonpoint Source Pollution: A diffuse source of water pollution that freely flows across natural or man-
made surfaces from activities such as agriculture, urban run-off, mining and silviculture.
Non-structural Solutions: Shoreline protection measures to prevent loss of upland property, usually
referring to the placement of beach material or vegetation management at the shore in order either to
replace eroded material, to feed a littoral current that would otherwise cause shoreline retreat, or to
plant vegetation to stabilize shore material.
Nuisance: Any use or activity that interferes with the use or enjoyment of property, endangers personal
health or safety, or is offensive to the senses.
OFM: Washington State Office of Financial Management.
On-site Retention: Permanent impounding of storm water, or a substantial portion of storm water, in
manmade or man-modified lakes and ponds. On-site retention is often required for developments.
Open Space Land: Land not occupied by buildings or other structures, and which is set aside to serve
as a buffer, provide recreational opportunities, protect environmentally sensitive areas, preserve wildlife
corridors, provide viewsheds or to serve as locations for future public facilities.
Overburdened Community: A geographic area where vulnerable populations face combined, multiple
environmental harms, and health impacts, and includes, but is not limited to, highly impacted
communities as defined in RCW 19.405.020.
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Overlay District: A specially designated zoning district containing additional standards and
requirements, which is applied on top of a basic zoning classification. Examples include Historic
Districts, Office/Clinic, Gateway Corridor, Design District, and Pedestrian overlays.
Park: Public land set aside for recreational, educational, aesthetic or cultural use.
Park Model, Recreational Park Trailer, or Tiny Home on Wheels: A trailer-type unit that has
substantially lost its identity as a mobile unit by virtue of its being permanently fixed on property
complying with American National Standards Institute 4119.5 standard for park trailers as defined by
WAC 296-150P-0020. These units bear an insignia issued by the Washington Department of Labor &
Industries or equivalent. This definition does not include Recreational Vehicles as defined by the
Washington State Department of Labor & Industries.
Permanent Supportive Housing: Subsidized, leased housing with no limit on length of stay that
prioritizes people who need comprehensive support services to retain tenancy and utilizes admissions
practices designed to use lower barriers to entry than would be typical for other subsidized or
unsubsidized rental housing, especially related to rental history, criminal history, and personal
behaviors. Permanent supportive housing is paired with on-site or off-site voluntary services designed
to support a person living with a complex and disabling behavioral health or physical health condition
who was experiencing homelessness or was at imminent risk of homelessness prior to moving into
housing to retain their housing and be a successful tenant in a housing arrangement, improve the
resident's health status, and connect the resident of the housing with community-based health care,
treatment, or employment services. Permanent supportive housing is subject to all of the rights and
responsibilities defined in RCW Chapter 59.18.
Permeability: The rate at which water moves through undisturbed soil.
Planned Rural Residential Development (PRRD): Development characterized by a unified site design,
clustered residential units, and areas of common open space pursuant to Article VI-M of chapter 18.15
JCC.
Planned Unit Development (PUD): A form of development usually characterized by a unified site
design for a number of housing units and compatible nonresidential uses, including provisions for the
clustering of buildings and promotion of common open space, and may include density increases and a
mix of buildings types and land uses. PUDs allow for the planning of a project and the calculation of
densities over the entire development, rather than on an individual lot-by-lot basis.
Planning Period: The 20-year period following the adoption of a comprehensive plan or such longer
period as may have been selected as the initial planning horizon by the planning jurisdiction.
Plat: A map of the design of a land subdivision.
Prime Agricultural Land: Soils with little or no limitations or hazards for crop production.
Prime Farmland: Land that has the best combination of characteristics for agricultural production and
is not urban in nature
Principal Use: The main or primary purpose for which a building, other structure and/or lot is designed,
arranged, or intended, or for which it may be used, occupied or maintained.
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Protective Easement: An easement for the purpose of precluding future or additional development of
the land. Protective easements are generally used to preserve tidelands, shorelines, marshes,
streamways, or other environmentally sensitive areas.
Public Benefit and Rating System: Open space applications are awarded points on the Public Benefit
Rating (PBR) Scale to the extent that they implement policies which prioritize types of open space.
Public Facilities: Any use of land, whether publicly or privately owned, for transportation, utilities, or
communications, or for the benefit of the general public, including streets, roads, highways, sidewalks,
storm and sanitary sewer systems, parks and recreational facilities, schools, libraries, fire and police
stations, municipal and county buildings, powerhouses and cemeteries (see 36.70A.030 RCW).
Public Services: The full range of services traditionally provided by local government including fire
protection, law enforcement, public health, education, recreation, environmental protection, and other
governmental services.
RCW: Revised Code of Washington.
Real Estate Excise Transfer Tax (REET): A tax levied on the sale of real property. The amount of the tax
is determined as a percentage of the sales price. The GMA authorized cities to impose a second 0.25 per
cent REET tax to be used to fund capital projects.
Recreational Facilities: Facilities such as trails and pathways, parks, and campgrounds that provide
opportunities for leisure-type activities.
Regional Services: Goods, services and/or facilities that serve the population of a large geographic area.
Regional Transportation Plan: The transportation plan for the regionally designated transportation
system and which is produced by the Regional Transportation Planning Organization.
Regional Transportation Planning Organization (RTPO): A voluntary organization of local, multi-
county governments which coordinate inter-regional transportation needs pursuant to RCW 47.80.020.
Residential Use: Any land which provides for living space. Examples include single family dwellings,
multi-family dwellings, artist studio/dwelling, boarding house, caretaker's quarters, special residence,
floating homes, and mobile homes.
Resource-Based Industrial Zone (RBIZ): A Forest Resource-Based Industrial Zone designation that
recognizes existing, active sawmills and related activities.
Rezone: Changing the zoning designation to a different zoning classification.
Right-of-Way (ROW): A recorded right to use or travel over a specified property. The property can be an
area or strip of land, public or private. Most commonly, it refers to land on which a street, sidewalk, or
railroad is located. It can also be occupied by utilities, transmission lines, oil or gas pipelines,
drainageways or similar facilities although pathways for these features are more commonly referred to
as easements.
Runway Protection Zone: A trapezoidal area located adjacent to each end of a runway representing
the ground level at the innermost portion of the runway approach.
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Rural Character: Pursuant to RCW 36.70A.030, rural character refers to the patterns of land use and
development established by a county in the rural element of its comprehensive plan:
a. In which open space, the natural landscape, and vegetation predominate over the built
environment;
b. That foster traditional rural lifestyles, rural-based economies, and opportunities to both live and
work in rural areas;
c. That provide visual landscapes that are traditionally found in rural areas and communities;
d. That are compatible with the use of the land by wildlife and for fish and wildlife habitat;
e. That reduce the inappropriate conversion of undeveloped land into sprawling, low-density
development;
f. That generally do not require the extension of urban governmental services; and
g. That are consistent with the protection of natural surface water flows and groundwater and surface
water recharge and discharge areas.
Rural Crossroads: Those areas established by virtue of historic transportation patterns and
characterized by existing concentrations of small-scale commercial uses fronting on, or in close
proximity to, major transportation routes and intersections. The interim boundaries of Rural Crossroads
are defined by the contained built environment that existed in 1990 or before. These site-specific areas
serve an identified existing need for the local community and cannot be expanded in size. The following
three types of Commercial Rural Crossroads exist in Jefferson County: Convenience Crossroads,
Neighborhood/Visitor Crossroads, and General Crossroads:
▶ Convenience Crossroads (CC): Those crossroads that provide a limited selection of basic retail
goods and services, and serve a lower intensity population base and the traveling public.
Convenience Crossroads are characterized by a single convenience/general store. There are four (4)
Convenience Crossroads in Jefferson County: Wawa Point, Beaver Valley, Nordland, and SR
104/Shine Road.
▶ Neighborhood/Visitor Crossroads (NC): Those crossroads which provide multiple uses and services
serving both the local community and the traveling public. There are five (5) Neighborhood/Visitor
Crossroads in Jefferson County: Mats Mats, Discovery Bay, Gardner, Chimacum, and Four Corners.
▶ General Crossroads (GC): General Crossroads are similar to Neighborhood Crossroads but serve a
higher local population base and offer a wider variety of goods and services. There is one (1) General
Crossroads in Jefferson County: the SR 19/20 Intersection.
Rural Development: Refers to development outside the Urban Growth Area and outside agricultural,
forest, and mineral resource lands designated pursuant to RCW 36.70A.170. Rural development does
not refer to agriculture or forestry activities that may be conducted in rural areas.
Rural Lands: Land which primarily contains a mix of low-density residential development, is not within
an Urban Growth Area, and is not designated as natural resource land having long term commercial
significance for production of agricultural products or timber.
Rural Services: Pursuant to RCW 36.70A.030, rural services are those public services and facilities
historically and typically delivered at an intensity usually found in rural areas, and may include domestic
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public utilities associated with rural development and not normally associated with urban areas. Rural
services do not include storm or sanitary sewers except as otherwise authorized by RCW 36.70A.110(4).
Rural Village Center(s): Small, unincorporated commercial and residential community centers that
provide a rural level of services and which serve as a focal point for the local population. The interim
boundaries of the Rural Village Centers are predominantly defined by the contained, built environment
as it existed in 1990 or before. These commercial districts allow modest in-fill development that
maintains the character of the immediate area, but cannot expand their designated boundaries. In
Jefferson County these centers include Quilcene and Brinnon.
Salt Water Intrusion: The process of sea water being drawn into ground water sources or aquifers.
Seawater Intrusion Protection Zones (SIPZ): Aquifers and land overlying aquifers with some degree of
vulnerability to seawater intrusion. SIPZ are defined either by proximity to marine shoreline or by
proximity to groundwater sources that have demonstrated high chloride readings.
Scenic Corridor: Strip of land along streams, rivers, cliffs, bays, shorelines, ridges or roadways that
provides scenic vistas, views or aesthetically-pleasing landscapes.
SEPA: See State Environmental Policy Act.
Service Area: A geographic area defined by a county or intergovernmental agreement in which a
defined set of public facilities provides service to development within the area. Its boundaries are
typically delineated according to the distance people are willing to travel for goods and services.
Shoreline Management Act: A law passed by the Washington State Legislature in 1971 and ratified by
the voters in 1972 (reference RCW 90.58). The Shoreline Management Act requires local governments to
establish a program, consistent with the rules adopted by the Department of Ecology, for the
administration and enforcement of the permit system for shoreline management.
Shoreline Master Program (SMP): Local land-use policies and regulations that guide public and private
use of Washington lake, stream, wetland, and marine shorelines.
Shorelines: All the water areas of Jefferson County, including reservoirs and their associated wetlands,
together with lands underlying them, except:
a. Shorelines of state-wide significance;
b. Shorelines or segments of streams upstream of a point where the mean annual flow is twenty cubic
feet per second or less and the wetlands associated with such upstream segments; and
c. Shorelines on lakes less than twenty acres in size and wetlands associated with such small lakes.
Shorelines of State-wide Significance: A shoreline of the State with respect to Jefferson County and
the City of Port Townsend as identified as follows:
a. Those lakes, whether natural, artificial, or a combination thereof, with a surface acreage of one
thousand acres or more measured at the ordinary high-water mark, including associated wetlands;
b. Those areas of Puget Sound and adjacent salt waters and the Strait of Juan de Fuca between the
ordinary high watermark and the line of extreme low tide, which are Hood Canal from Tala Point to
Foulweather Bluff south to the Mason-Jefferson County line, including associated wetlands;
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c. Those areas of Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca and adjacent salt waters north to the
Canadian line and lying seaward from the line of extreme low tide; and
d. Those natural rivers or segments thereof downstream from a point where the mean annual flow is
measured at one thousand cubic feet per second or more. In Jefferson County these rivers are the
Clearwater, Hoh, and Quinault.
Short Plat (Short Subdivision): The division or redivision of land into four or fewer lots, tracts, parcels,
sites, or divisions for the purpose of sale, lease, or transfer of ownership; and within UGAs, a division of
land up to a maximum of nine lots.
Significant Trees: Trees with significant aesthetic, cultural, environmental or historical importance
including, but not limited to, ridge-top trees, riparian buffers, and Port Townsend forest corridor trees.
Single Family Residence: A dwelling unit detached from any other dwelling unit and intended for
occupation by one immediate family.
Sixplex: A residential building with six attached dwelling units.
Sleeping Unit: A single unit that provides rooms or spaces for one or more persons, includes
permanent provisions for sleeping and can include provisions for living, eating and either sanitation or
kitchen facilities but not both. Such rooms and spaces that are also part of a dwelling unit are not
sleeping units.
Small-scale Recreational or Tourist-related Uses: Those uses which are leisure or recreational in
nature and typically are reliant upon a rural setting. Examples include, but are not limited to, the
following: campgrounds, U-fish ponds, hot springs, trails, cultural or religious retreats, mini-golf, public
gardens, marinas and music festivals.
Special Needs Housing: Housing designed for persons who require supportive social services in order
to live independently or semi-independently. Special needs groups include, but are not limited to, the
homeless, elderly, persons with disabilities and persons with substance abuse
Spot Zoning: The process of signaling out a small parcel of land for a use classification that is different
and inconsistent with the surrounding area, for the benefit of the owner of such property and to the
detriment of the rights of other property owners.
Sprawl: see Urban Sprawl.
Stacked Flat: Dwelling units in a residential building of no more than three stories on a residential
zoned lot in which each floor may be separately rented or owned.
Stakeholder: Any affected or interested person or party including, but not limited to, property owners,
tribes, government agencies, businesses or organizations.
State Environmental Policy Act, (SEPA): The State law passed in 1971 requiring state and local
agencies to consider environmental impacts in the decision-making process.
Storm Water: Water that is generated by rainfall and is often routed into drain systems in order to
prevent flooding.
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Storm Water Detention: The process of collecting and holding back storm water for a delayed release
to receiving waters.
Strip Development: Intensive development, typically commercial, and usually arranged in a linear
pattern, located on both sides of an arterial.
Strip Zoning: A zone normally consisting of a ribbon of uses fronting both sides of an arterial roadway
and extending inward for half a block.
Structure, Detached: A structure, which has no common or party wall with another structure.
Subdivision: Any division of land regulated under the Jefferson County Subdivision Ordinance, No. 4-
0526-92, as amended, for the purpose of sale or lease.
Subsidized Housing: Refers to housing units for lower income households that are operated directly by
a public housing authority or its affiliate, or that are insured, financed, or assisted in whole or in part
through a government program. Housing providers may use tax credit subsidies to lower the cost of
units offered or households may use vouchers for market rate units.
Substandard Dwelling: A dwelling unit that does not meet the building code requirements through
lack of maintenance, age of unit, neglect, lack of (part or all) plumbing facilities, kitchen facilities, or
crowded conditions.
Substandard Lot: A lot or parcel that does not meet the minimum lot size requirements of current
development regulations.
Surface Water: That portion of water that appears on the land surface, such as oceans, lakes, rivers,
springs and wetlands.
Targeted Industry Program: A program that identifies and targets specific industries or business
activities that the County wishes to promote or encourage.
Time Share: A building used or intended for use as an occasional residential accommodation by one or
more persons who permanently reside elsewhere and who typically share in operating expenditures
such as rent and upkeep.
Tourist-Related Industries: See Small-scale Recreational or Tourist-Related Uses.
Townhouses: Buildings that contain three or more attached single-family dwelling units that extend
from foundation to roof and that have a yard or public way on not less than two sides
Transfer of Development Rights (TDRs): A program in which the development rights are separated
from the land in an area in which a community wishes to limit development, and permits them to be
sold for use in an area targeted for high-density development.
Transitional Housing: A project that provides housing and supportive services to homeless persons or
families for up to two years and that has as its purpose facilitating the movement of homeless persons
and families into independent living.
Transit: A multiple-occupant vehicle operated on a for-hire, shared-ride basis, including bus, ferry, rail,
shuttle bus, or vanpool. Public transportation can include, but is not limited to: public bus, trolley, light
rail, heavy rail, and commuter rail transport, but not ferries or van pools.
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Transportation Improvement Project (TIP): A jurisdiction’s six-year road improvement program.
Trip: A one-direction movement, which begins at the origin and ends at the destination. For example, a
trip movement from a residence to a work place is a trip from home to work.
Trip Generation: The second step in forecasting the number of trips generated by the forecasted land
use. The number of trips made to and from each type of land use by day. Trip generation provides the
linkage between land use and travel. Trips generated at the home end are generally termed
“production.” Trips generated by business are generally termed “attractions.”
Triplex: A residential building with three attached dwelling units.
Upzoning: A change in the zoning classification of land to a classification allowing more intensive use of
the land, such as a change from single family to multi-family residential (see downzoning).
Unified Development Code (UDC): The set of development regulations in Jefferson County that
implement the Comprehensive Plan.
Unit Lot Subdivision: A land division of a parent site into separately owned unit lots.
Urban Growth: Pursuant to RCW 36.70A.030 (48), urban growth is growth that makes intensive use of
land for the location of buildings, structures, and impermeable surfaces to such a degree as to be
incompatible with the primary use of land for the production of food, other agricultural products, or
fiber, or the extraction of mineral resources, rural uses, rural development, and natural resource lands
designated pursuant to RCW 36.70A.170. A pattern of more intensive rural development, as provided in
RCW 36.70A.070(5)(d), is not urban growth. When allowed to spread over wide areas, urban growth
typically requires urban governmental services. “Characterized by urban growth” refers to land having
urban growth located on it, or to land located in relationship to an area with urban growth on it as to be
appropriate for urban growth.
Urban Growth Areas (UGA): Areas which counties designate, in consultation with cities, where urban
growth will be encouraged and supported with urban levels of services pursuant to the criteria set forth
in RCW 36.70A.110. The Urban Growth Areas are to include areas and densities sufficient to permit the
urban growth that is projected to occur in the County for the succeeding 20-year period.
Urban Growth Boundaries: The line or boundary that delineates the limit between the Urban Growth
Areas and other areas such as rural and resource areas where urban growth is not allowed, as
designated by the County in consultation with its cities, under the requirements of the GMA.
Urban Services: Pursuant to RCW 36.70A.030, urban services are those public services and public
facilities at an intensity historically and typically provided in cities, specifically including storm and
sanitary sewer systems, domestic water systems, street cleaning services, fire and police protection
services, public transit services, street improvements such as sidewalks, curbs and gutters and other
public utilities associated with urban areas and normally not associated with rural.
Urban Sprawl: Scattered, poorly planned urban development that occurs particularly in urban fringe
and rural areas and frequently invades land important for environmental and natural resource
protection. Urban sprawl typically manifests itself in one or more of the following patterns (see also
Sprawl):
a. Leap frog development: when new development is sited away from an existing urban area,
bypassing vacant parcels located in or closer to the urban area that are suitable for development;
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b. Strip development: when large amounts of commercial, retail, and often multi-family residential
development are located in a linear pattern along both sides of a major arterial and typically,
accessing directly onto the arterial; and
c. Large expanses of low-density, single-family dwelling development.
Unit Density: The number of dwelling units allowed on a lot, regardless of lot size.
Unit Lot Subdivisions: Divisions of a parent lot into separately owned unit lots that meet the
requirements of JCC 18.35, Article IX.
Use:
The purpose for which the building or structure or premises or part thereof is used, occupied or
intended to be used or designed to be used or occupied; or
An activity, occupation, business or operation carried on, or intended to be carried on, in a building
or on a tract of land; or
Any purpose for which a building or other structure or parcel of land may be designed, arranged,
intended, maintained or occupied, or
Any activity, occupation, business or operation carried out, or intended to be carried on, in a
building or other structure or on a parcel of land; or
Anything done or permitted by the owner or occupant of any land, building or structure, directly or
indirectly, or through any trustee, tenant, servant or agent for or with the knowledge or consent of
such owner or occupant, for the purpose of making use of said land, building or structure.
Very Low-income Household: A single person, family, or unrelated persons living together whose
adjusted income is at or below 50% of the median household income adjusted for household size, for
the county where the household is located, as reported by HUD.
Vest(ed/ing): The status of a project for which landowners are granted permission to proceed with
development after obtaining all necessary permits and meeting all criteria set forth by the appropriate
agencies. In Washington State, the time at which the project is vested is statutorily defined. When a
complete building permit application for a structure to be used in a manner permitted under the land
use regulations in effect on the date of such application is submitted, the applicant will be entitled to
improve and use land under the ordinances of the County in effect on the date of the complete
building application.
A vested right to subdivide is established as of the date a “fully competed application for preliminary
plat approval has been submitted.”
Village Commercial Center: The zoning classification of Port Ludlow Master Planned Resort’s
commercial area.
Vulnerable Populations: Population groups that are more likely to be at higher risk for poor health
outcomes in response to environmental harms, due to: (i) adverse socioeconomic factors, such as
unemployment, high housing and transportation costs relative to income, limited access to nutritious
food and adequate health care, linguistic isolation, and other factors that negatively affect health
outcomes and increase vulnerability to the effects of environmental harms; and (ii) sensitivity factors,
such as low birth weight and higher rates of hospitalization. "Vulnerable populations" include but are
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not limited to racial or ethnic minorities, low-income populations, and populations disproportionately
impacted by environmental harms.
WAC: Washington Administrative Code.
Water-Dependent Use or Activity: A use or portion of a use which can not exist in any other location
and is dependent on the water by reason of the intrinsic nature of its operations. Examples of water-
dependent uses may include ship cargo terminal loading areas, ferry and passenger terminals, barge
loading facilities, ship building and dry docking, marinas, aquaculture, float plane facilities and sewer
outfalls.
Water-Enjoyment Use or Activity: A recreational use, activity or other use facilitating public access to
the shoreline as a primary characteristic of the use; or a use that provides for recreational use or
aesthetic enjoyment of the shoreline for a substantial number of people as a general characteristic of
the use and which, through the location, design and operation, assures the public’s ability to enjoy the
physical and aesthetic qualities of the shoreline.
Water-Oriented Use or Activity: Any combination of water-dependent or water-enjoyment uses or
activities.
Water-Related Use or Activity: A use or a portion of a use which is not intrinsically dependent on a
waterfront location but whose economic viability is dependent upon a waterfront location because:
Of a functional requirement for a waterfront location such as the arrival or shipment of materials by
water or the need for large quantities of water or,
The use provides a necessary service supportive of the water-dependent commercial activities and
the proximity of the use to its customers makes its service less expensive and/or more convenient.
A use or activity which must be located close to the land/water interface to support a water-dependent
use or activity either by its own operation or by the provision of the services it houses. Warehousing of
goods transported by water, seafood processing plants, hydroelectric generating plants, and log
storage are examples of water-related uses or activities.
Water Resource Inventory Area (WRIA): Geographic areas defined by the Washington Department of
Ecology and used for water resource planning and administration, including instream flow and other
water resource-related rules.
Watershed: The geographic region within which water drains into a particular river, stream, or body of
water. A watershed includes hills, lowlands, and the body of water into which the land drains.
Western Jefferson County: The Pacific Coast of Jefferson County, west of the Olympic National Forrest
and the Olympic National Park.
Wetland: Areas that are inundated or saturated by surface water or ground water at a frequency and
duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of
vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps,
marshes, bogs, and similar areas. Wetlands do not include those artificial wetlands intentionally created
from non-wetland sites, including, but not limited to, irrigation and drainage ditches, grass-lined
swales, canals, detention facilities, wastewater treatment facilities, farm ponds, and landscape
amenities, or those wetlands created after July 1, 1990, that were unintentionally created as a result of
the construction of a road, street, or highway. Wetlands may include those artificial wetlands
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intentionally created from non-wetland areas created to mitigate conversion of wetlands, if permitted
by the County.
Wildland Urban Interface (WUI): The geographical area where structures and other human
development meets or intermingles with wildland vegetative fuels.
WSESD: Washington State Employment Security Division
Zero Lot Line: A common lot line on which a shared wall of structure may be constructed.
Zoning: A measure enacted by general purpose unit of local government in which the community is
divided into districts or zones within which permitted and special uses are established as are
regulations governing lot size, building bulk, placement, and other development standards. The Zoning
Ordinance consists of two parts, the text and the map.