Coupeville City Zoning Code
Complete index of all zoning chapters, sections, and subsections
CHAPTER 16
06 - ADMINISTRATION
Sections
- 16.06.010 - Purpose.
- 16.06.020 - Assignment of review authority.
- 16.06.030 - Consolidated application and review process.
- 16.06.040 - Public notification.
- 16.06.050 - Review and approval.
- 16.06.060 - Appeals.
- 16.06.070 - Amendments.
- 16.06.080 - Enforcement and penalties.
- 16.06.090 - Concurrency management program.
CHAPTER 16
08 - ZONING DISTRICTS
Sections
- 16.08.010 - Purpose and intent.
- 16.08.020 - Establishment of zoning districts and provisions for official zoning map.
- 16.08.030 - Interpretation of zoning district boundaries.
- 16.08.040 - Residential zoning districts.
- 16.08.050 - Commercial zoning districts.
- 16.08.060 - Public/quasi-public zoning district.
- 16.08.070 - Reserved.
- 16.08.080 - Planned unit development overlay district (PUD).
- 16.08.085 - Cottage housing overlay district (CHOD).
- 16.08.090 - Public utilities.
- 16.08.100 - Zoning of annexed lands.
CHAPTER 16
10 - SUPPLEMENTAL USE STANDARDS
Sections
- 16.10.010 - Purpose.
- 16.10.020 - Nonconforming uses, buildings, and structures.
- 16.10.030 - Existing substandard lots.
- 16.10.040 - Duplex dwellings.
- 16.10.050 - Accessory dwelling units.
- 16.10.060 - Accessory Uses.
- 16.10.070 - Home occupations.
- 16.10.080 - Transient accommodation.
- 16.10.090 - Manufactured housing units and manufactured housing parks.
- 16.10.100 - Special needs lodging and care facilities.
CHAPTER 16
12 - DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS1
Sections
- 16.12.010 - Purpose.
- 16.12.020 - Application of zoning district regulations.
- 16.12.030 - Setback standards.
- 16.12.040 - Lot area, width and coverage standards.
- 16.12.050 - Height structures.
- 16.12.060 - Landscaping, recreation space and exterior appearance standards.
- 16.12.070 - Off-street parking and loading requirements.
- 16.12.075 - Electric vehicle charging stations.
- 16.12.080 - Reserved.
- 16.12.085 - Cottage housing developments.
- 16.12.090 - Sight distance standards.
CHAPTER 16
13 - EBEY'S LANDING NATIONAL HISTORICAL RESERVE DESIGN REVIEW AND COMMUNITY DESIGN STANDARDS
Sections
- 16.13.010 - Purpose.
- 16.13.020 - Applicability.
- 16.13.030 - Design guidelines adopted.
- 16.13.040 - Permit coordination.
- 16.13.050 - Definitions.
- 16.13.060 - Ebey's Landing Historic Preservation Commission.
- 16.13.070 - Interlocal agreement required.
- 16.13.080 - Procedural, substantive, and appeal requirements within Ebey's Landing National Historical Reserve.
- 16.13.090 - Exempt activities.
- 16.13.100 - Level A certificate of appropriateness decisions—Ministerial—Planning staff decision process.
- 16.13.110 - Level B certificate of appropriateness decisions—Administrative decision process.
- 16.13.120 - Level C certificate of appropriateness decisions—HPC recommendations and decisions.
- 16.13.130 - Level A and B certificates of appropriateness—Application requirements and planning department decisions.
- 16.13.140 - Level C certificates of appropriateness—Application requirements, public meetings, and HPC decisions.
- 16.13.150 - Demolition or relocation of contributing buildings or structures or historic resources.
- 16.13.160 - Procedures for changes to the guidelines.
- 16.13.170 - Political subdivisions, special purpose districts, and public and private utility projects.
- 16.13.180 - Designated buildings and sites—National Register of Historic Places.
- 16.13.190 - Review and monitoring of property for special property tax valuation.
- 16.13.200 - Disclosure statement.
- 16.13.210 - Penalties and enforcement.
- 16.13.220 - Severability.
CHAPTER 16
16 - SUBDIVISIONS
Sections
- 16.16.010 - Purpose.
- 16.16.020 - Applicability and exemptions.
- 16.16.030 - Administration.
- 16.16.040 - Consent to access.
- 16.16.050 - Plat alterations and replats.
- 16.16.060 - Preliminary approval of subdivisions and short subdivisions.
- 16.16.070 - Subdivision design standards.
- 16.16.080 - Public improvements.
- 16.16.090 - Design or improvement variances.
- 16.16.100 - Final approval of plats and short plats.
- 16.16.110 - Enforcement and penalties.
- 16.16.120 - Application requirements.
CHAPTER 16
28 - SIGNS4
Sections
- 16.28.010 - Regulatory purposes.
- 16.28.020 - Applicability.
- 16.28.030 - Exemptions.
- 16.28.040 - Prohibited signs.
- 16.28.050 - Temporary signs.
- 16.28.060 - Dimensional calculations.
- 16.28.070 - Permanent signs—Commercial and public zones.
- 16.28.080 - Permanent signs—Residential zones.
- 16.28.090 - Nonconforming signs.
- 16.28.100 - Sign design.
- 16.28.110 - Administration.
- 16.28.120 - Sign variances.
- 16.28.130 - Definitions.
- 16.28.140 - Severability.
CHAPTER 16
30 - SHORELINE MASTER PROGRAM5
Sections
- Article I. - General Provisions
- 16.30.010 - Title.
- 16.30.020 - Short title.
- 16.30.030 - Official map.
- 16.30.040 - Mandate, plan development, purpose, general applicability, background and analysis/inventory, and restoration.
- 16.30.050 - Applicability to persons.
- 16.30.060 - Applicability to federal agencies.
- 16.30.070 - Applicability to development.
- 16.30.080 - Requirement for permit.
- 16.30.090 - Exemptions from substantial development.
- 16.30.100 - Exceptions to local review.
- 16.30.110 - Application for shoreline substantial development, shoreline conditional use, or shoreline variance permits.
- Article II. - Definitions
- Article III. - Shorelines of Statewide Significance
- Article IV. - Goals and General Shoreline Use and Development Policies
- 16.30.160 - General.
- 16.30.170 - Shoreline use.
- 16.30.180 - Economic development.
- 16.30.190 - Public access and public shoreline views.
- 16.30.200 - Circulation.
- 16.30.210 - Recreation.
- 16.30.220 - Conservation.
- 16.30.230 - Historic and cultural preservation.
- 16.30.240 - Shoreline restoration.
- 16.30.250 - Environmental protection.
- 16.30.260 - Frequently flooded areas.
- 16.30.270 - Critical areas.
- Article V. - Designated Shoreline Environments
- Article VI. - Use Policies and Regulations
- 16.30.330 - Introduction.
- 16.30.340 - General regulations.
- 16.30.350 - Agriculture.
- 16.30.360 - Aquaculture.
- 16.30.370 - Shoreline modification policies and development regulations.
- 16.30.380 - Commercial development.
- 16.30.390 - Industry.
- 16.30.400 - Forest management practices.
- 16.30.410 - Marinas.
- 16.30.420 - Mooring buoys.
- 16.30.430 - Pipelines and petroleum operations.
- 16.30.440 - Port district.
- 16.30.450 - Recreation.
- 16.30.460 - Residential development.
- 16.30.470 - Signs.
- 16.30.480 - Transportation facilities.
- 16.30.490 - Utilities.
- 16.30.500 - Vegetation conservation.
- Article VII. - Variances
- Article VIII. - Conditional Uses
- Article IX. - Revisions to Permits
- Article X. - Nonconforming Uses and Developments
- Article XI. - Administration
- APPENDIX A - SHORELINE ENVIRONMENT DESIGNATIONS
- APPENDIX B - USE TABLE
CHAPTER 16
34 - CRITICAL AREAS ORDINANCE
Sections
- 16.34.010 - Purpose.
- 16.34.020 - Authority.
- 16.34.030 - Relationship to other regulations.
- 16.34.040 - Applicant responsible for reports required under this chapter.
- 16.34.050 - Severability.
- 16.34.060 - Interpretation.
- 16.34.070 - Jurisdiction—Critical areas.
- 16.34.080 - Activities likely to affect critical areas subject to regulation.
- 16.34.090 - Protection of critical areas.
- 16.34.100 - Best available science.
- 16.34.110 - Applicability.
- 16.34.120 - Exemptions.
- 16.34.130 - Exception—Public agency and utility.
- 16.34.140 - Exception—Reasonable use.
- 16.34.150 - Allowed activities.
- 16.34.160 - General requirements—Critical area project review process.
- 16.34.170 - Critical area identification process.
- 16.34.180 - Critical area report—Requirements.
- 16.34.190 - Critical area report—Modifications to requirements.
- 16.34.200 - Mitigation requirements.
- 16.34.210 - Mitigation sequencing.
- 16.34.220 - Mitigation plan requirements.
- 16.34.230 - Review criteria.
- 16.34.240 - Completion of the critical area review.
- 16.34.250 - Appeals.
- 16.34.260 - Unauthorized critical area alterations and enforcement.
- 16.34.270 - Notice on title.
- 16.34.280 - Native growth protection areas.
- 16.34.290 - Critical area tracts.
- 16.34.300 - Building setbacks.
- 16.34.310 - Bonds to ensure mitigation, maintenance, and monitoring.
- 16.34.320 - Critical area inspections.
- 16.34.330 - Designation, rating, and mapping of wetlands.
- 16.34.340 - Activities allowed in wetlands.
- 16.34.350 - Critical area report—Additional requirements for wetlands.
- 16.34.360 - Performance standards—General requirements.
- 16.34.370 - Performance standards—Compensatory mitigation requirements.
- 16.34.380 - Performance standards—Subdivisions.
- 16.34.390 - Critical aquifer recharge areas.
- 16.34.400 - Mapping of critical aquifer recharge areas.
- 16.34.410 - Activities allowed in critical aquifer recharge areas.
- 16.34.420 - Performance standards—General requirements.
- 16.34.430 - Performance standards—Specific uses.
- 16.34.440 - Uses prohibited from critical aquifer recharge areas.
- 16.34.450 - Designation of frequently flooded areas.
- 16.34.460 - Geologically hazardous areas.
- 16.34.470 - Designation of specific hazard areas.
- 16.34.480 - Mapping of geologically hazardous areas.
- 16.34.490 - Critical area report—Additional requirements for geologically hazardous areas.
- 16.34.500 - Performance standards—General requirements.
- 16.34.510 - Performance standards—Specific hazards.
- 16.34.520 - Covenant.
- 16.34.530 - Disclosure.
- 16.34.540 - Designation of Fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas.
- 16.34.550 - Critical area report—Additional requirements for habitat conservation areas.
- 16.34.560 - Performance standards—General requirements.
- 16.34.570 - Performance standards—Specific habitats.
- 16.34.580 - Definitions.
CHAPTER 16
36 - ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT
Sections
- 16.36.010 - Authority.
- 16.36.020 - General requirements.
- 16.36.030 - Categorical exemptions and threshold determinations.
- 16.36.040 - Environmental impact statement (EIS).
- 16.36.050 - Commenting.
- 16.36.060 - Using existing environmental documents.
- 16.36.070 - SEPA and agency decisions.
- 16.36.080 - Definitions.
- 16.36.090 - Categorical exemptions.
- 16.36.100 - Agency compliance.
- 16.36.110 - Forms.