Drafter
Clerk 06/05/2014
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AN ORDINANCE relating to comprehensive planning; adopting the 2013 King County real property asset management plan; and amending Ordinance 10810, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.12.100.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. The King County Code requires county council approval of a county space plan every other year.
B. Transmittal of the 2013 Space Plan to the county council by the executive was delayed due to a high number of requested departmental office space relocations and related real property proposed transactions.
C. The continued downsizing of the King County work force and changed patterns of space use have resulted in opportunities to consolidate agencies, to move agencies to strategic locations and to better address the county's underutilized space in county facilities.
D. The 2013 real property asset management plan highlights important changes underway in the county's real property portfolio and details the proposed near-term moves.
SECTION 2. Ordinance 10810, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.12.100 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
The ((2011)) 2013 real property asset management plan, formerly called the county space plan, dated ((May 16, 2011)) June 3, 2014, and consisting of real property asset management policies, practices and strategies, including planning policies, locations of county agencies and implementation plans, the ((2011)) updated 2012 work space survey results, short term space planning and moves and reference legal authorities and King County space standards, is adopted ((as a sub-element of the public facilities element)) as a component of the capital facilities element of the ((c))Comprehensive ((p))Plan ((and the master plan for county facility development as defined in K.C.C. 4.04.020.)) The real property asset management plan dated ((May 16, 2011)) June 3, 2014, shall govern development of all facility master plans, facility program plans and ((CIP))the capital improvement program and lease requests for space housing county agency operations.
The executive shall update the current and future space needs and implementation plans of the real property asset management plan and submit them to the council as amendments to the real property asset management plan by March 1 of every ((other)) fourth year, beginning on March 1, ((2006)) 2016, as a part of Technical Appendix A and as a component to the Comprehensive Plan. Any proposed policy changes occurring within the four-year period shall be included in the annual Comprehensive Plan updates in accordance with K.C.C. 20.18.030.B.7.
SECTION 3. The real property asset management plan dated June 3, 2014, is adopted as part of the 2014 Comprehensive Plan update in conjunction with Proposed Ordinance 2014-0104.