Shoreline and critical area regulations that apply to building a house, armoring, shoreline stabilization, shoreline modification, stairs to the beach, tree removal, bank erosion, designing bank protection, RPA, dock construction, dock repair, docks and piers, retaining walls and all development in the shoreline.
The Shoreline Master Program (SMP) is the local instrument by which San Juan County and the State Department of Ecology (DOE) jointly administer the 1971 Shoreline Management Act (SMA), Chapter 90.58 of the Revised Code of Washington (RCW).