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AN ORDINANCE relating to comprehensive planning and permitting; revising the Introduction and Chapters 1 and 2 of the 2012 updates to the Comprehensive Plan; replacing Ordinance 17485, Attachment F, Technical Appendix D; and amending Ordinance 17485, Section 2.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County adopted the 2012 updates to the King County Comprehensive Plan on December 3, 2012.
2. The city of Snoqualmie timely filed an appeal to the growth management hearings board ("board") and among the many issues it raised in its appeal, the city claimed that the updates to the Comprehensive Plan did not comply with SHB 1825, the 2009 amendments to the Washington State Growth Management Act.
3. On August 12, 2013, the board issued its Final Decision and Order on the city's appeal.
4. While the board found for the county on every substantive issue raised by the city in its appeal, it also determined that the Comprehensive Plan did not adequately demonstrate that the updates were reviewed and potentially revised to comply with the requirements of the 2009 amendments to the Growth Management Act.
5. As required by the 2009 amendment to RCW 36.70A.115, cities and counties that plan under the Growth Management Act, must "ensure that, taken collectively, adoption of and amendments to their comprehensive plans and/or development regulations provide sufficient capacity of land suitable for development within their jurisdictions to accommodate their allocated housing and employment growth, including the accommodation of, as appropriate, the medical, governmental, educational, institutional, commercial, and industrial facilities related to such growth, as adopted in the applicable countywide planning policies and consistent with the twenty-year population forecast from the office of financial management."
6. The board remanded back to the county the Comprehensive Plan's Introduction, Chapters 1 and 2, and Technical Appendix D to take appropriate action to show how the 2012 updates to the Comprehensive Plan comply with the requirements of the Growth Management Act, including amendments after 2008.
7. The King County Code authorizes a review of the Comprehensive Plan annually and to make amendments that are in response to an appeal of the Comprehensive Plan filed with the board.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings: The King County council finds that the revisions to the 2012 King County Comprehensive Plan found in Attachments A and B to this ordinance are intended to clarify the county's consideration of the 2009 amendments to the Growth Management Act found in SHB 1825 in its review of the 2012 updates to the Comprehensive Plan.
SECTION 2. Ordinance 17485, Section 2, is hereby amended to read as follows:
A. King County performed its fourth comprehensive four-cycle review of the Comprehensive Plan in 2012. As a result of the review, King County amended the 2008 Comprehensive Plan through passage of the King County Comprehensive Plan 2012.
B. The amendments to the King County Comprehensive Plan 2008 contained in Attachment((s)) A to Ordinance 17485, as amended by Attachment A to this ordinance, Attachments B, C, D((,)) and E to Ordinance 17485, ((F)) Attachment B to this ordinance, which replaced Attachment F to Ordinance 17485, and Attachment G to ((this o))Ordinance 17485 are hereby adopted as amendments to the King County Comprehensive Plan. Attachment A to ((this o))Ordinance 17485, as amended by Attachment A to this ordinance, amends the policies, text and maps of the Comprehensive Plan and amends King County Comprehensive Plan Land Use Zoning. The land use amendments contained in Attachment A to ((this o))Ordinance 17485 are adopted as the official land use designations for those portions of unincorporated King County defined in Attachment A to ((this o))Ordinance 17485. Attachment B to ((this o))Ordinance 17485 contains Technical Appendix A (Capital Facilities), which replaces Technical Appendix A to the King County Comprehensive Plan 2008. Attachment C to ((this o))Ordinance 17485 contains Technical Appendix B (Housing), which replaces Technical Appendix B to the King County Comprehensive Plan 2008. Attachment D to ((this o))Ordinance 17485 contains Technical Appendix C (Transportation), which replaces Technical Appendix C to the King County Comprehensive Plan 2008. Attachment E to ((this o))Ordinance 17485 contains the transportation needs report, which replaces the transportation needs report in Technical Appendix C to the King County Comprehensive Plan 2008. Attachment ((F)) B to ((this o))Ordinance xxxxx (Proposed Ordinance 2013-0xxx), which replaced Attachment F to Ordinance 17485, contains Technical Appendix D (Growth Targets and the Urban Growth Area 2012). Attachment G to ((this o))Ordinance 17485 contains Technical Appendix P: Summary of Public Outreach for Development of the 2012 King County Comprehensive Plan Update. Attachment I to ((this o))Ordinance 17485 is hereby adopted as an amendment of the Fall City Subarea Plan, which was adopted as a subarea plan of the King County Comprehensive Plan in Attachment A to Ordinance 13875. Attachment J to ((this o))Ordinance 17485 contains Technical Appendix Q (King County School Siting Task Force report dated March 31, 2012).
SECTION 3. The executive shall make the revisions contained in Attachment A to this ordinance to the web-based version of the Comprehensive Plan and indicate at the chapter level that the chapter has been revised and reference the enactment number of this ordinance. At the paragraph level, the executive shall indicate by footnote that the paragraph has been revised and reference the enactment number of this ordinance. The executive shall replace the March 1, 2012, version of Technical Appendix D on the web-based version of the Comprehensive Plan with Attachment B to this ordinance and indicate that Technical Appendix D has been revised and reference the enactment number of this ordinance.
SECTION 4. If any provision of this ordinance or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the ordinance or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.
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Newspaper: Seattle Times
Publish: Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Public hearing: 10/28/13