§ 20.09A.040. Density.

The base density for this district is a maximum of one unit per five acres, or one unit per 1/128 of a section of land. This base density shall be modified as follows:

1.

Academic schools with sewer service, not including on-site disposal systems, that are permitted within this district are exempted from the density provisions of this chapter, subject to any conditions required for special use permit approval; and

2.

The maximum number of dwelling units allowed shall be determined by:

a.

Subtracting from the parcel area: documented high groundwater hazard areas, wetlands twenty-two thousand square feet or more and two thousand five hundred square feet or more if adjacent to a stream or within its one-hundred-year floodplain, marine bluff hazard areas to the top of the bluff and landslide hazard areas; one-hundred-year floodplains; and submerged lands as defined in the Shoreline Master Program for the Thurston Region, as amended;

b.

Critical area buffers shall not be subtracted from the parcel for purposes of making the density calculation; and

c.

The zoning density shall be applied to the remainder of the parcel.

d.

For the purposes of calculating density, the documented area of a wetland shall not be subtracted from the parcel area if a property owner opts to develop a planned rural residential development as specified in Chapter 20.30A TCC.

(Ord. 11398 § 3 (part), 1997: Ord. 10893 § 2, 1995: Ord. 10398 § 7 (part), 1993)

(Ord. No. 14524, § 1, 6-7-2011; Ord. No. 14773, § 7(Att. F), 7-24-2012; Ord. No. 14961, § 5(Att. E), 12-17-2013)