Santa Clara County Municipal Code § 3.60.010 Purpose

The purpose of the "-bw" Bay Wetlands combining district is to preserve the wetlands of San Francisco Bay that lie within the jurisdiction of Santa Clara County, while providing for appropriate recreational, educational, resource extraction, and open space uses. This chapter implements the Baylands General Plan land use designation.

The uses permitted by this chapter shall supersede those permitted by the base district, such that only those uses specifically designated within this chapter shall be permitted on land to which the "-bw" designation applies.

A. Salt extraction, and extraction of other minerals or chemicals from seawater.

B. Educational facilities, directly related to and necessarily located within the natural resources of the area.

C. Boat marinas, and boat maintenance facilities.

D. Water-related recreational clubs, and other commercial recreation exceeding the scope of activities referred to in Subsection 3.60.030.B.

E. Hatcheries, fish farming, cultivation and harvesting of crustacea and similar forms of aquaculture.

Uses necessitating the construction of dikes, groins, causeways or other bay fill shall be prohibited except where it can be demonstrated that it is desirable from an ecological standpoint to improve the baylands' natural environment.