Marine Resource
The MR district has the following purposes:
A. To regulate the use of tidelands, and other land covered by salt water;
B. To preserve and enhance the natural marine environment along the shoreline of Edmonds;
C. To provide local control of the natural marine environment to the extent that state and federal regulation allow.
A. Permitted Uses.
1. Commercial fishing, sports fishing and shell fishing, including deepwater mollusks, crustaceans, and bivalves, as regulated and permitted by the Washington State Department of Fisheries and other applicable governmental agencies;
2. The movement of ships, boats, rafts, barges and submarines, and the establishment of government-authorized navigational devices and aids as regulated by the U.S. Coast Guard, the Corps of Army Engineers and other applicable governmental agencies; provided, however, there shall be no discharge of ballast, sanitary facilities or effluent, chemicals, petroleum products, garbage, cargo (except to save life or property), or any other thing, fluid or solid of any kind or description whether by design or accident regardless of precautions exercised;
3. Swimming, snorkeling, scuba diving and related recreation activities.
B. Uses Requiring a Conditional Use Permit.
1. The installation of submerged power and communication cables, fuel line and any other related installation;
2. The filling or dredging of submerged land and the construction of breakwaters, bulkheads, groins, piers and related structures for harbors, marinas, buildings and/or railroad trackage;
3. Scientific installation, including submerged manned or unmanned research shelters;
4. Mineral extraction from water, but excluding submerged land mining, drilling for petroleum or gas, or excavation in connection therewith;
5. Marine agriculture in the propagation and harvest of marine vegetation such as edible or medicinal seaweed provided that the basic chemical balance of the water is not disturbed or polluted;
6. Educational and recreational facilities, commercial, private or public.
Marine Resource
The MR district has the following purposes:
A. To regulate the use of tidelands, and other land covered by salt water;
B. To preserve and enhance the natural marine environment along the shoreline of Edmonds;
C. To provide local control of the natural marine environment to the extent that state and federal regulation allow.
A. Permitted Uses.
1. Commercial fishing, sports fishing and shell fishing, including deepwater mollusks, crustaceans, and bivalves, as regulated and permitted by the Washington State Department of Fisheries and other applicable governmental agencies;
2. The movement of ships, boats, rafts, barges and submarines, and the establishment of government-authorized navigational devices and aids as regulated by the U.S. Coast Guard, the Corps of Army Engineers and other applicable governmental agencies; provided, however, there shall be no discharge of ballast, sanitary facilities or effluent, chemicals, petroleum products, garbage, cargo (except to save life or property), or any other thing, fluid or solid of any kind or description whether by design or accident regardless of precautions exercised;
3. Swimming, snorkeling, scuba diving and related recreation activities.
B. Uses Requiring a Conditional Use Permit.
1. The installation of submerged power and communication cables, fuel line and any other related installation;
2. The filling or dredging of submerged land and the construction of breakwaters, bulkheads, groins, piers and related structures for harbors, marinas, buildings and/or railroad trackage;
3. Scientific installation, including submerged manned or unmanned research shelters;
4. Mineral extraction from water, but excluding submerged land mining, drilling for petroleum or gas, or excavation in connection therewith;
5. Marine agriculture in the propagation and harvest of marine vegetation such as edible or medicinal seaweed provided that the basic chemical balance of the water is not disturbed or polluted;
6. Educational and recreational facilities, commercial, private or public.