§ 20.09B.010. Purposes.

The purposes of this chapter are to:

1.

Protect public health and safety by minimizing development and avoiding incompatible uses in environmentally sensitive and hazardous areas such as the Black River Corridor, the Nisqually Bluff, and parcels completely covered by critical areas;

2.

Provide greater opportunities for protecting critical areas and creating open space corridors;

3.

Provide for low density residential uses, agriculture, forestry, conservation and associated uses appropriate for a rural area that do not require urban services; and

4.

Provide for mining through a special use process.

(Ord. 13884 § 5 (part), 2007)