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07/23/2025 Clerk
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the vacation of a portion of NE 122nd Street and NE 123rd Street, V-2747; Petitioners: Ricky Callaway and Laura Callaway and Ian Dewar and Patricia Dewar.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. A petition has been filed requesting vacation of a portion of NE 122nd Street and NE 123rd Street in the Snoqualmie Valley NE King County Community Service Area of unincorporated King County, hereinafter described.
2. The department of local services notified utility companies serving the area and King County departments of the proposed vacation and no utility requested an easement over the vacation area. King County maintains a drainage facility within the vacation area and an easement benefiting the county is retained for permanent access, maintenance, repair and replacement of the facility. The vacation shall not extinguish the rights of any utility company to any existing easements for facilities or equipment within the vacation area.
3. The department of local services' records indicate that this segment of right of way is unopened and unmaintained.
4. The department of local services considers the subject portion of right of way useless as part of the county road system and believes the public would benefit by the return of this segment of right of way to the public tax rolls and recommends approval of the vacation.
5. Pursuant to K.C.C. 14.40.020 and RCW 36.87.120, the value of the vacation area is offset by the costs to King County to manage and maintain this segment of unopened right of way and the present value of future property tax resulting in a determination that no additional compensation is required for the vacation of an approximately 33,522 square foot portion of NE 122nd Street and NE 123rd Street to the property of petitioners Ricky Callaway and Laura Callaway. If required, compensation must be received by King County within ninety days of approval of the ordinance vacating the right of way.
6. Due notice was given in the manner provided by law. The office of the hearing examiner held the public hearing on ________, ______, 2025.
7. As detailed in the _________, ___ 2025, recommendation, the hearing examiner found that the road segment subject to this petition is not useful as part of the King County road system, concluded that the vacation of this segment of road will benefit the public through the transfer of responsibility for management and return of the property to the public tax roll, and recommended approval of the vacation petition without the requirement of additional compensation by petitioners.
8. For the reasons stated in the examiner's ____________, ____ 2025, report and recommendation, the council determines that it is in the best interest of the citizens of King County to grant said petition and vacate the right of way.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The council, on the effective date of this ordinance, hereby vacates and abandons a portion of NE 122nd Street and NE 123rd Street right of way as described below:
All of NE 123rd Street abutting Lot 2, King County Short Plat No. S89S0262, recorded under Recording Number 9202199003 lying Southeasterly and Easterly of the following described line:
Beginning at the intersection of the Southwesterly projection of the Northwesterly boundary of said Lot 2 with the Southwesterly right-of-way margin of said NE 123rd Street;
Thence Northeasterly approximately 54.5 feet to the intersection with the Northeasterly right-of-way margin of said NE 123rd Street at a point offset 24.00 feet Southeasterly of the Northwesterly line of said Lot 2, being also the Southeasterly line of an ingress, egress and utility easement as sown on the face of said Short Plat.
Situate within the Northwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter of Section 27, Township 26 North, Range 7 East, Willamette Meridian, County of
King, State of Washington.
Containing 33,522 square feet or 0.77 acres, more or less.