13.17.060 Jurisdiction or environment designation boundary line dispute process.
Pursuant to BMC 13.07.070 where uncertainty or a conflict may exist in determining the location of a jurisdiction boundary line, or an environment boundary line, the shoreline administrator shall resolve the uncertainty by applying the criteria of BMC 13.07.070 and the following:
A. Boundaries indicated as approximately following the centerlines of streets, highways or alleys shall be construed to follow such lines.
B. Boundaries indicated as approximately following platted lot lines shall be construed as following such lot lines.
C. Boundaries indicated as approximately following the corporate limits shall be construed as following such corporate limits.
D. Boundaries indicated as following railroad lines shall be construed to be halfway between railroad right-of-way lines.
E. Boundaries shall be construed to follow 200 feet to the upland side of the ordinary high water mark or the actual delineated boundaries of associated wetlands or the 100-year floodplain or the 100-year floodway associated with the shoreline of the state. Where wetlands are present, the boundary shall be construed to follow the boundary of the wetland as surveyed and mapped in the field and based upon a special study consistent with BMC 13.13.020(E). In the event of a change in a shoreline, channel migration zone or wetland feature, boundaries shall be construed as moving with the actual shoreline, channel migration zone, floodway, or floodplain.
F. Boundaries indicated as parallel to or extension of features indicated in subsections A through E of this section shall be so construed.
G. Boundaries shall be determined by field survey conducted by a state of Washington licensed surveyor of the features described and delineated above.
H. Where physical features existing on the ground are at variance and dispute cannot be resolved through application of the criteria above, the shoreline administrator shall interpret the boundaries. (Ord. 2112 § 3 (Exh. C), 2013).