“Reasonable use or reasonable economic use” means a common-law principle that no one has the right to use his or her property in a way that deprives others of the lawful enjoyment of their property. A legal concept articulated by federal and state courts in regulatory takings cases.

“Reasonable use exception” means an exception to the specific standards identified in this title granted to a property owner on the basis that a property owner should be allowed the reasonable use of his or her property.

“Remediation” means the cleanup and restoration of groundwater to some acceptable level.

“Restoration” means, for the purposes of sensitive areas regulation, an action which returns a sensitive area or buffer to a state in which its stability and functions approach its unaltered state as closely as possible.

“Riparian” is an adjective meaning alongside a water body: stream, river, lake, pond, bay, sea, and ocean. Riparian areas are sometimes referred to by different names: riparian ecosystems, riparian habitats, riparian corridors, or riparian zones.

“Riparian management zone (RMZ)” means a delineable area defined in a land use regulation; often synonymous with riparian buffer. For the purposes of this document, we define the RMZ as the area that has the potential to provide full riparian functions. The RMZ is defined by the greater of the outermost point of the riparian vegetative community or the pollution removal function. [Ord. 4525 § 1, 2021; Ord. 3911 § 2, 2009; Code 1970 §§ 28.08.250 – 28.08.265.]