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JEFFERSON COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
621 Sheridan Street • Port Townsend • Washington 98368
360/379-4450 • • 360/379-4451 Fax
Release of Moratorium for A Single -Family Home
(Subject to Forest Practices Act)
Purpose
A property owner subject to the 6 -year moratorium provisions of the Forest Practices Act can wait until the required time
period expires for the forest conversion application, or apply to have the development moratorium released. The
moratorium may be lifted only if the person requesting the release did not attempt to avoid County review or restrictions of
a conversion forest practices application as evidenced by a transfer of property.
The Administrator of the Jefferson County Department of Community Development may "Release" the Development
Moratorium for the construction of one (1) single-family residence (including an accessory dwelling unit, where allowed)
and related accessory buildings on a legal lot of record. Applicants for a "Release" from the moratorium must fill out a
Master Land Use Application form in addition to the supplemental moratorium release application form in this handout.
The Unified Development Code can be accessed at www.co.jeffemon.wa.us/oommdevelopment.
Process
At least ten (10) days prior to taking action on an application for Release from Moratorium, and following a Type II
procedure, the Administrator shall solicit comments from the following:
a. Property owners of record within three hundred (300) feet of the subject property within an urban growth
area or within five hundred (500) feet of the subject property if outside of an urban growth area;
b. Appropriate state departments such as Ecology, Natural Resources and Fish and Wildlife; and
C. Appropriate tribal governments; and
d. Other interested parties requesting such permit information.
Criteria
The Administrator may authorize, conditionally authorize, or deny a release application. A Release of a Development
Moratorium is subject to the following findings:
The person requesting the release did not attempt to avoid the County review or restrictions of a
conversion forest practices application;
Environmentally sensitive areas and their buffers, and shoreline area as set forth in the Jefferson County
Unified Development Code (UDC) and Shoreline Master Program were not damaged in the forest
practice operation, or that any such damage is repairable with restoration; and
Corrective action can be undertaken to provide for compliance with applicable conversion standards
established by the UDC.
Upon request of the property owner, the moratorium may be rescinded by the Administrator if an approved forest
practices application has been either withdrawn or expired, and no harvest in reliance upon such approval has taken
place. Evidence that the harvest has not taken place, in the form of a letter from the Department of Natural Resources,
shall be submitted by the applicant before release of moratorium
MORRiORIM DOC REV. 1QWC01
JEFFERSON COUNTY
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT
621 Sheridan Street • Port Townsend • Washington 98368
36013794450 • • 36013794451 Fax
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Supplemental Application for FPA Release of Moratorium for A Single -Family Home
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The following questions must be answered completely. If additional space is needed, attach extra pages to the application. (Refer to
Section 4.16.5(c) of the Jefferson County Unified Development Code for the release of moratorium findings that apply.)
Describe the sequence of events leading up to and including the issuance of the forest practices permit. Please note
when you acquired the property.
2. Describe any harvest activities and that occurred within Environmentally Sensitive Areas (such as wetlands and steep
slopes) or within 200 feet of a shoreline area.
3. Indicate what types of mitigation is planned for each Environmentally Sensitive Area, Shoreline Area and their buffers
which have been damaged in the forest practice operation.
4. Describe any other measures which will be taken to comply with the conversion standards contained in .UDC
4.16.7(c).
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Vicinity Map
❑ Locate the property on a large-scale map or the appropriate page or portion of a county map.
Harvested Area Map(APPLM.ANTTOCNECNOFPASCOMPIETED)
❑ North arrow.
❑ Map scale which shall be no larger than fifty (50) feet to the inch and not less than two hundred (200) feet to the
inch using a standard interval engineer scale.
d Existing forested areas and areas harvested.
❑ Areas which were stumped and graded.
❑ Existing roads, proposed roads and landings, and any structures.
❑ Forested blocks for future harvest(s) or conversions.
❑ Environmentally Sensitive Areas (i.e., wetlands, ponds, streams, seasonal drainages, steep slopes, marine bluffs,
and special habitats).
❑ Shoreline Areas (i.e., within 200 feet of a marine or river shoreline).
❑ Contiguous property also owned by the property owner or applicant.
❑ Area of the site in acres: area of harvesting in acres
Lines shall be drawn with a straightedge and features shall be to scale.
Drawing shall be sufficiently clearto see footprint of structures and otherfeatures described above.
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