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AN ORDINANCE relating to surface water management; and amending Ordinance 9163, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 9.04.020, Ordinance 9163, Section 3, as amended, and K.C.C. 9.04.030, Ordinance 2281, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 9.04.050, Ordinance 10636, Section 4, as amended, and K.C.C. 9.12.025, Ordinance 10636, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 9.12.035 and Ordinance 10636, Section 10, as amended, and K.C.C. 9.12.080.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 9163, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 9.04.020, as amended, are each amended to read as follows:
The definitions in this section apply throughout this chapter unless the context clearly requires otherwise.
A. "Adjustment" means a department-approved variation in the application of the requirements of K.C.C. 9.04.050 and the Surface Water Design Manual to a particular project in accordance with K.C.C. 9.04.050C. "Adjustment" replaces "variance," which was used in prior editions of the Surface Water Design Manual.
B. "Applicant" means a property owner or a public agency or public or private utility that owns a right-of-way or other easement or has been adjudicated the right to such an easement under RCW 8.12.090, or any person or entity designated or named in writing by the property or easement owner to be the applicant, in an application for a development proposal, permit or approval.
C. "Basin" means a geographic area that contains and drains to a stream or river named and noted on common maps, such as the Cedar river, Sammamish river, Green river, Snoqualmie river, Skykomish river or White river, (([))or a geographic area that drains to((]*)) a nonflowing water body named and noted on common maps, such as Lake Washington or Puget Sound.
D. "Basin plan" means a plan and all implementing regulations and procedures including, but not limited to, capital projects, public education activities and land use management adopted by ordinance for ma...

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