100-Year Flood Plain means land adjoining a river, stream, watercourse, ocean, bay, or lake having a one percent chance of being inundated in any given year with flood waters resulting from the overflow of inland or tidal waters and/or the unusual and rapid accumulation of surface runoff from any source.

ACT means 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 A Washington.

Adequate capital facilities means facilities which have the capacity to serve development without decreasing levels of service below locally established Minimums.

Adopt a comprehensive land use plan means to enact a new comprehensive land use plan or to update an existing comprehensive land use plan.

Agricultural land means land primarily devoted to the commercial production of horticultural, viticultural, floricultural, 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 that has long-term commercial significance for agricultural production.

Aquifer means a body of rock sediment, sand, or gravel that is able to store and conduct significant quantities of groundwater.

Aquifer Recharge Areas are areas where surface water is able to permeate the soil and is conducted to aquifers for storage.

Available capital facilities means that facilities or services are in place or that a financial commitment is in place to provide the facilities or services within a specified time. In the case of transportation, the specified time is six years from the time of development.

Capital facility means a physical structure owned or operated by -a government entity which provides or supports a public service.

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.

City means any city or town, including a code city.

Concurrency means that adequate capital facilities are available when the impacts of development occur. This definition includes the two concepts - "adequate capital facilities" and of "available capital facilities" as defined above.

Consistency means that no feature of a plan or regulation is incompatible with any other feature of a plan or regulation. Consistency is indicative of a capacity for orderly integration or operation with other elements in a system.

Comprehensive land use plan, comprehensive plan, or plan means a generalized coordinated land use policy statement of the governing body of a county or city that is adopted pursuant to this chapter.

Contiguous development means development of areas immediately adjacent to one another.

Coordination means consultation and cooperation among jurisdictions.

Critical areas include the following areas and ecosystems: (a) wetlands; (b) areas with a critical recharging effect on aquifers used for potable water; (c) fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas; (d) frequently flooded areas; and (e) geologically hazardous areas.

Development regulations means any controls placed on development of 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.

Domestic Water System means that any system providing a supply of potable water for the intended use of a development which is deemed adequate pursuant to RCW 19.27.097.

Fish and Wildlife Habitat means areas identified as being important to the maintenance of fish, wildlife, and plant species.

Geologically Hazardous Areas means areas that, because of their susceptibility to erosion, sliding, earthquake, or other geological event, are not suited to the siting of commercial, residential, or industrial development consistent with public health and safety (RCW 36.70A.030).

Goal means a general condition, ideal situation, or achievement that reflects societal values or broad public purposes.

Growth Management Act - see definition of "Act."

Growth Management Coordinating Committee (GMCC) means a committee which consists of elected officials, planning commission members, and citizens who are appointed by the County and the City of Sultan to review comprehensive plans for unincorporated urban growth areas and to make recommendations to the County and City planning commissions.

Level of Service (LOS) means an established minimum capacity of capital facilities or services provided by capital facilities that must be provided per unit of demand or other appropriate measure of need.

Planning period means the 20-year period following the adoption of a comprehensive plan or such longer period as may gave been selected as the initial planning horizon by the planning jurisdiction.

Policy means an action-oriented procedure, activity, or decision-making that defines the process by which an objective is achieved.

Potable Water means water suitable for drinking.

Public facilities include streets, roads, highways, sidewalks, street and road lighting systems, storm and sanitary sewer systems, parks and recreational facilities, and schools.

Public services include fire protection and suppression, law enforcement, public health, education, recreation, environmental protection and other governmental services. . .

Regional transportation plan means the transportation plan for the regionally designated transportation system which is produced by the regional Transportation Planning Organization. _

Regional Transportation Planning Organization (RTPO) means the voluntary organization conforming to RCW 47.80.020, consisting of local governments within a region containing one or counties which have common transportation interests.

Rural lands means all lands which are not within an urban growth area and are not designated as natural resource lands having long term commercial significance for production of agricultural products, timber, or the extraction of minerals.

Sanitary sewer systems means all facilities, including approved on-site disposal facilities, used in the collection, transmission, storage, treatment or discharge of any waterborne waste, whether domestic in origin or a combination of domestic, commercial or industrial waste.

Solid waste handling facility means any facility for the transfer or ultimate disposal of solid waste, including landfills and municipal incinerators,

Snohomish County Tomorrow means a joint planning process of the County, its cities and towns, and the Tulalip Tribes to guide effective growth management and to meet the requirements of the GMA for coordination and consistency among local comprehensive- plans.

Transportation facilities includes capital facilities related to air, water or land transportation.

Transportation level of service standards means a measure which describes the operational condition of the travel stream, usually in terms of speed and

Urban growth refers to growth that make 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 such land for, the production of food, other agricultural products, fiber, or the extraction of mineral resources. 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 (UGAs) are areas where urban growth will be encouraged and supported by public facilities and services. The urban growth areas include areas and densities sufficient to permit the urban growth that is projected to occur in the County for a 20-year period.

Urban governmental services include those governmental services historically and typically delivered by cities, and include storm and sanitary sewer systems, domestic water systems, street cleaning services, fare and police protection services, public transit services, and other public utilities associated with urban areas and normally not associated with non-urban areas.

Utilities means facilities serving the public by means of a network of wires or pipes, and structures ancillary thereto. Included are systems for the delivery of natural gas, electricity, and telecommunications services.

Visioning means a process of citizen involvement to determine values and ideals for the future of a community and to transform those values and ideals into manageable and feasible community goals.

Wetland or wetlands are 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. However, wetlands may include those artificial wetlands intentionally created to mitigate conversion of wetlands, if permitted by the county or city.