Technical Terms and Land Use Definitions | Zoning Districts
292. Relocatable facility. Any factory-built structure, transportable in one or more sections that is designed to be used as an education space and is needed to prevent the overbuilding of school facilities, to meet the needs of service areas within a district or to cover the gap between the time that families move into new residential developments and the date that construction is completed on permanent school facilities. 293. Restoration. Returning a stream, wetland, other sensitive area or any associated buffer to a state in which its stability and functions approach its unaltered state as closely as possible. 294. Retail, comparison. Provides for the sale of comparison goods and services and is centrally located in the community. 295. Retail, convenience. Provides for daily living goods, is easy to access and use and is close to residential neighborhoods.
as organic and inorganic debris, influence the biological and physical properties of the aquatic ecosystem. Riparian habitat includes the entire extent of the floodplain and riparian areas of wetlands that are directly connected to stream courses or other freshwater. 298. Runoff. Water not absorbed by the soil in the landscape area to which it is applied. 299. Salmonid. A member of the fish family Salmonidae , including:
a. Chinook, coho, chum, sockeye and pink salmon;
b. Rainbow, steelhead and cutthroat salmon;
c. Brown trout;
d. Brook and Dolly Varden char;
e. Kokanee; and
f. Whitefish.
296. Retaining wall. Any wall used to resist the lateral displacement of any material.
300. School bus base. An establishment for the storage, dispatch, repair, and maintenance of coaches and other vehicles of a school transit system. 301. School district. Any school district whose boundaries include the City of Sammamish. 302. School district support facility. Uses (excluding schools and bus bases) that are required for the operation of a school district. This term includes school district administrative offices, centralized kitchens, and maintenance or storage facilities.
297. Riparian. The area adjacent to flowing or standing freshwater aquatic systems. Riparian habitat encompasses the area beginning at the ordinary high water mark and extends to that portion of the terrestrial landscape that is influenced by, or that directly influences, the aquatic ecosystem. In riparian systems, the vegetation, water tables, soils, microclimate, and wildlife inhabitants of terrestrial ecosystems are often influenced by perennial or intermittent water. Simultaneously, adjacent vegetation, nutrient and sediment loading, terrestrial wildlife, as well
Effective | January 1, 2022
Title 21: Sammamish Development Code | 247
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