Walkable Neighborhood or Community. An area where the goods and services that a neighborhood resident or employee needs on a regular basis, such as stores, businesses, schools, libraries, and transportation, are located within a short and safe walk.

Wall Sign. A sign attached to a wall or facade with its face parallel to the wall plane and projecting no more than one foot. Window signs that are permanently attached or in excess of 50 square feet are considered wall signs.

Warehousing. The use of a building primarily for the long-term storage of goods and materials.

Warranty Assurance. A form of financial security posted to warranty the quality of materials or workmanship of improvements constructed as a condition of land use permit approval or to warranty survival of landscaping. Warranty assurances include irrevocable letter of credit, cash deposit, and surety bonds, and/or other forms of financial security acceptable to the Administrator. For the purposes of this title, the term “maintenance guarantee” is synonymous with maintenance assurance.

Water-Dependent Use. A use or portion of a use which cannot exist in a location that is not adjacent to the water and which is dependent on the water by reason of the intrinsic nature of its operation. (SMP)

Water-Enjoyment Use. A recreational use or other use that facilitates public access to the shoreline as a primary characteristic of the use; or a use that provides recreational use or aesthetic enjoyment of the shoreline for a substantial number of people as a general characteristic of the use and which through location, design, and operation ensures the public’s ability to enjoy the physical and aesthetic qualities of the shoreline. In order to qualify as a water-enjoyment use, the use must be open to the general public and the shoreline-oriented space within the project must be devoted to the specific aspects of the use that fosters shoreline enjoyment. (SMP). This term also applies Citywide.

Water-Oriented Use. A use that is water-dependent, water-related, or water-enjoyment use, or a combination of such uses. (SMP)

Water Quality. The physical characteristics of water within the shoreline jurisdiction, including water quantity, hydrological, physical, chemical, aesthetic, recreation-related, and biological characteristics. (SMP)

Water-Related Use. A use or portion of a use which is not intrinsically dependent on a waterfront location, but whose economic viability is dependent upon a waterfront location because:

Weed, Noxious. A plant that is injurious to humans, animals, fish, wildlife, or other plants or property and that has been designated as such by the Administrator. The Administrator may utilize a list of noxious weeds set forth by the State Noxious Weed Control Board or the King County Noxious Weed Control Board. (SMP)

Weekday. See RMC Chapter 6.36, Noise Standards.

Weekend. See RMC Chapter 6.36, Noise Standards.

Well. For the purposes of administering RZC 21.64, Critical Areas, a bored, drilled or driven shaft, or dug hole whose depth is greater than the largest surface dimension that includes water wells, resource protection wells, instrumentation wells, dewatering wells, and geotechnical soil borings. For this purpose a well does not mean an excavation made for the purpose of obtaining or prospecting for oil or natural gas, geothermal resources, minerals, or products of mining, or quarrying, or for inserting media to re-pressure oil or natural gas bearing formations, or for storing petroleum, natural gas, or other products.

Wellhead Protection Zone. A zone designated under guidance from the Washington Department of Health Wellhead Protection Program pursuant to WAC Chapter 246-290 to protect areas with a critical recharging effect on aquifers used for potable waters.

Wetland or Wetlands. Areas that are inundated or saturated by surface water or ground water at a frequency and duration sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands generally include swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas. Wetlands do not include those artificial wetlands intentionally created from non-wetland sites, including, but not limited to, irrigation and drainage ditches, grass-lined swales, canals, detention facilities, wastewater treatment facilities, farm ponds, and landscape amenities, or those wetlands created after July 1, 1990, that were unintentionally created as a result of the construction of a road, street, or highway. Wetlands include those artificial wetlands intentionally created from non-wetland areas created to mitigate conversion of wetlands.

Wetland Class. A hierarchy of systems, subsystems, classes, and subclasses used by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wetland classification scheme to describe wetland types (refer to USFWS, December 1979, Classification of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitats of the United States, for a complete explanation of the wetland classification scheme). Eleven class names are used to describe wetland and deepwater habitat types. These include the following examples which may be found in Redmond: forested wetland, scrub-shrub wetland, emergent wetland, moss-lichen wetland, unconsolidated shore, and aquatic bed.

Wetland Determination. A report prepared by a qualified consultant that identifies, characterizes, and analyzes potential impacts to wetlands consistent with applicable provisions of these regulations.

Wetland Subclass. Any of twenty-eight subclass names are used in the USFWS wetland classification scheme to distinguish between different types of wetland classes. Subclass names include, but are not limited to, the following: persistent, non-persistent, broad-leaved deciduous, needle-leafed deciduous, broad-leaved evergreen, and needle-leafed evergreen. The classification system is fully described in USFWS, 1979, Classification of Wetlands and Deepwater Habitats of the United States.

Wildlife Report. A report, prepared by a qualified consultant, that evaluates plant communities and wildlife functions and values on a site, consistent with the format and requirements established by RZC 21.64, Critical Areas Regulations.

Wind Turbines. Electrical generators driven by wind power.

Wireless Communications. Any personal wireless service, which includes, but is not limited to, cellular, Personal Communications Services (PCS), Specialized Mobile Radio (SMR), Enhanced Specialized Mobile Radio (ESMR), and unlicensed spectrum services utilizing devices described in Part 15 of the Federal Communications Commission rules and regulations (e.g., wireless internet services and paging).

Wireless Communication Facility Permit. A permit required to ensure compliance with regulations in RZC 21.56, Wireless Communication Facilities, for large satellite antenna(s), amateur radio towers and other wireless communication facilities.