17.150.085 Shoreline moratorium.
(1) The city council may adopt moratoria or other interim official controls as necessary and appropriate to implement the provisions of the Shoreline Management Act.
(2) Prior to adopting such moratorium or other interim official controls, the city council shall:
(a) Hold a public hearing on the moratorium or control within 60 days of adoption;
(b) Adopt detailed findings of fact that include, but are not limited to, justifications for the proposed or adopted actions and explanations of the desired and likely outcomes; and
(c) Notify the Department of Ecology of the moratorium or control immediately after its adoption. The notification must specify the time, place, and date of any public hearing held.
(3) Said moratorium or other official control shall provide that all lawfully existing uses, structures, or other development shall continue to be deemed lawful conforming uses and may continue to be maintained, repaired, and redeveloped, so long as the use is not expanded, under the terms of the land use and shoreline rules and regulations in place at the time of the moratorium.
(4) Said moratorium or control adopted under this section may be effective for up to six months if a detailed work plan for remedying the issues and circumstances necessitating the moratorium or control is developed and made available for public review. A moratorium or control may be renewed for two six-month periods if the city council complies with this subsection before each renewal.
(5) If a moratorium or control is in effect on the date a proposed Master Program or amendment is submitted to the Department of Ecology, the moratorium or control must remain in effect until the Department’s final action under RCW 90.58.090; however, the moratorium expires six months after the date of submittal if Ecology has not taken final action. (Ord. 1373 § 46, 2014).