Wall, Exterior: Any wall or element of a wall or any member or group of members, which defines the exterior boundaries or courts of a building and which has a slope of 60 degrees or greater from the horizontal plane. (Former Section CZ#A312-25)

Warehousing, Storage and Distribution Use Type: (See, Commercial Use Types: Warehousing, Storage and Distribution, in Section D: Use Types.)

Water, Watercourse: (See, Drainage, Natural.) (See also, Drainage Works.)

Water Distribution: (See, Civic Use Types, “Essential Services,” and “Utilities, Minor.”)

Watershed Management: (See, Natural Resource Use Types: Watershed Management, in Section D: Use Types.)

Well: A shaft or hole sunk to obtain water. (See also, Civic Use Types, Essential Services.) (Former Section CZ#A312-25)

Wetlands: Lands within the County Coastal Zone that may be covered periodically or permanently with shallow waters, including salt marshes, freshwater marshes, swamps, mudflats, fens, and transitional agricultural lands. The County will use the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Classification of Wetland and Deepwater Habitats of the United States as a guide to wetland identification. In general, lands which meet the classification’s definition of subtidal estuarine aquatic beds, estuarine intertidal flats and emergent habitats, and palustrine emergent and non-riparian palustrine shrub-scrub and forested habitats will be considered wetlands. (Former Section CZ#A312-25)

Wetland Farmed: (See, Agricultural Land, Transitional)

Wetland, Boundary of: Either: (Former Section CZ#A312-25)

Wetland Buffer Area: (See, Section 313-125, Wetland Buffer Areas.)

Wetland, Farmed: (See, Agricultural Land, Transitional)

Wetland, Farmed, Boundary of: (See, Agricultural Land, Boundary Of, Transitional)

Wetland, Functional Capacity: The ability of the wetland or estuary to be self-sustaining and to maintain species diversity. (Former Section CZ#A312-25)

Wetland Restoration: (See, Natural Resource Use Types, Wetland Restoration, in Section D: Use Types.)

Wildlife Management: Manipulation of habitats to produce some level of a desired species or manipulating animal populations to achieve a desired end. (Former Section CZ#A312-25)

Wind Generator: Any machine that converts kinetic energy in the wind into a usable form of electrical or mechanical energy (commonly known as a wind mill or wind turbine). (Former Section CZ#A312-25)

Wrecking and Salvage Yards: A wrecking and salvage yard is any aggregate area of more than 200 square feet within any parcel, lot or contiguous lots of real property which is used as a place where imported waste, inoperable machinery, inoperable motor vehicles, or discarded or salvaged materials are disassembled, handled, placed, processed, baled, packaged or stored. The term “wrecking and salvage yard” includes, but is not limited to, auto and trailer wrecking yards, other wrecking yards, scrap metal yards, used lumber yards and places or yards for storage of salvaged house wrecking and structural steel material and equipment. Any of the activities or conditions that would otherwise be a wrecking and salvage yard shall not constitute a wrecking or salvage yard if conducted entirely within a completely enclosed building. The term “wrecking and salvage yard” does not include areas used for the sale or storage of operable automobiles, tractors, farm machinery, house trailers or boats. The term “wrecking or salvage yard” also does not include areas used for the salvaging of materials incidental to and used in manufacturing or farm operations, providing such salvaging of materials takes place where the manufacturing or farming is done. (See also, “Automobile Wrecking.”) (For more information on wrecking and salvage yards, see Chapter 1 of Title III, Division 7 of these regulations.) (Former Section CZ#A312-12; From Section 371-1)