“Earth station” means a communication facility which transmits and/or receives signals to and from an orbiting satellite using satellite dish antennas.

“Ecosystem” means the complex of a community of organisms and its environment functioning as an ecological unit.

“Effective radiated power” means the product of the antenna power input and the numerical antenna power gain.

“Electric vehicle” means any vehicle that operates, either partially or exclusively, on electrical energy from the grid, or an off-board source, that is stored on-board for motive purpose. “Electric vehicle” includes: (a) a battery electric vehicle; (b) a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle; (c) a neighborhood electric vehicle; and (d) a medium-speed electric vehicle.

“Electric vehicle charging station” means a public or private parking space that is served by battery charging station equipment that has as its primary purpose the transfer of electric energy (by conductive or inductive means) to a battery or other energy storage device in an electric vehicle. An electric vehicle charging station equipped with Level 1 or Level 2 charging equipment is permitted outright as an accessory use to any principal use.

“Electric vehicle infrastructure” means structures, machinery, and equipment necessary and integral to support an electric vehicle, including battery charging stations, rapid charging stations, and battery exchange stations.

“Electric vehicle parking facility” means a standalone use designed and intended for the exclusive parking and charging of electric vehicles. When privately operated, it is often, but not always, associated with a specific vehicle brand or models. The term does not include electric vehicle parking spaces required by this code.

“Electric vehicle parking space” means any marked parking space that identifies the use to be exclusively for the parking of an electric vehicle and which is installed with electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE).

“Electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE)” means the hardware installed specifically for the purpose of transferring energy between the premises wiring and an electric vehicle. The hardware includes conductors, electric vehicle connectors, attachment plugs, and all other fittings, devices, power outlets, or apparatus.

“Electrical substation” means a site containing equipment for the conversion of high voltage electrical power transported through transmission lines into lower voltages transported through distribution lines and suitable for individual users.

“Emergency” means an occurrence during which there is imminent danger to the public health, safety and welfare, or that poses an imminent risk of property damage or personal injury or death as a result of a natural or human-made catastrophe, as determined by the Director.

“Emergency care facility” means any facility providing 24-hour emergency medical care.

Emergency Housing. Defined by RCW 36.70A.030.

Emergency Shelter. Defined by RCW 36.70A.030.

“Energy resource recovery facility” means an establishment for recovery of energy in a usable form from mass burning or refuse-derived fuel incineration, pyrolysis or any other means of using the heat of combustion of solid waste.

“Engineer, civil, geotechnical and structural” means:

“Enhancement” means, for the purposes of critical area regulation, an action that improves the structure and functions of ecosystems and habitats associated with critical areas or their buffers. Enhancement results in a gain in some critical area function(s) but may also lead to a decline in other functions, but does not result in a gain in critical area extent.

“Equipment, heavy” means high-capacity mechanical devices for moving earth or other materials, and mobile power units including, but not limited to:

“Erosion” means the wearing away of the ground surface as the result of the movement of wind, water or ice.

“Erosion hazard area” means an area underlain by soils that is subject to severe erosion when disturbed, including areas likely to become unstable, such as bluffs, steep slopes, and areas with unconsolidated soils. The soils subject to severe erosion include, but are not limited to, those classified as having a severe to very severe erosion hazard according to the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service, the 1973 King County Soils Survey or any subsequent revisions or addition by or to these sources such as any occurrence of river wash (“Rh”) and any of the following when the soils occur on slopes inclined at 15 percent or more:

“Essential public facility” means a facility necessary to protect the public health, safety and welfare, including, but not limited to, a facility defined under the occupancy categories of “essential facilities,” “hazardous facilities,” “critical facilities” and “special occupancy structures” in the structural forces chapter or succeeding chapter in CMC Title 15. Critical facilities also include nursing and personal care facilities, schools, senior citizen assisted housing, public roadway bridges and sites that produce, use or store hazardous substances or hazardous waste, not including the temporary storage of consumer products containing hazardous substances or hazardous waste intended for household use or for retail sale on the site.

“Evergreen” means a plant species with foliage that persists and remains green year-round.

“Examiner” means the Hearing Examiner as established by Chapter 2.25 CMC.

“Expansion” means the act or process of increasing the size, quantity or scope. (Ord. 08-21 § 4 (Exh. C); Ord. 06-17 § 5 (Exh. C); Ord. 19-11 § 1 (Exh. 1); Ord. 10-10 § 3 (Exh. C); Ord. 14-05 §§ 2, 3; Ord. 42-02 §§ 2 (21A.06.375, 21A.06.380, 21A.06.390, 21A.06.392, 21A.06.395, 21A.06.400, 21A.06.405, 21A.06.410, 21A.06.415, 21A.06.420, 21A.06.425). Formerly 18.20.375 – 18.20.427)