15.42.040 Regulated activities.
A. Regulated Activities. Consistent with the minimum requirements contained in this chapter, the following activities, unless exempted in subsection (A)(2) of this section, shall not be undertaken without first obtaining approval of the city:
1. New Development.
a. Land-disturbing activities;
b. Structural development, including construction; installation or expansion of a building or other structure;
c. Creation of impervious surfaces where any other city permit is required;
d. Class IV general forest practices that are conversions from timber land to other uses;
e. Subdivision, short subdivision and binding site plans, as defined in RCW 58.17.020.
2. Redevelopment. On an already developed site, the creation or addition of impervious surfaces, structural development including construction, and installation or expansion of a building or other structure, land-disturbing activities, and where any other city permit is required.
B. Exemptions. Commercial agriculture, and forest practices regulated under WAC Title 222, except for Class IV general forest practices that are conversions from timber land to other uses, are exempt from the provisions of this chapter.
Development undertaken by the Washington State Department of Transportation in state highway rights-of-way is regulated by Chapter 173-270 WAC, the Puget Sound highway runoff program.
All other new development and redevelopment is subject to the minimum requirements of this chapter. [Ord. 2017-03-009 § 4; Ord. 10633, 1995].