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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the vacation of a portion of 151st Avenue SE, File V-2536; Petitioners: Ming and Helen Yu.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. A petition has been filed requesting vacation of a portion of 151st Avenue SE hereinafter described.
2. The department of transportation notified the various utility companies serving the area and has been advised that easements are required within the vacation area and have been obtained. Puget Sound Energy, Qwest, and King County Water District No. 117 have retained Utility Easements under recording numbers 20060323000563, and 20060811001099, records of King County, Washington. The City of Bellevue has retained an Agreement Regarding Annexation of Real Estate under recording number 20060210000236, records of King County, Washington.
3. The department of transportation is requiring a Drainage Easement for the two road cross culverts conveying and discharging stormwater drainage within the subject vacation area. The petitioners, their heirs or assigns, will be responsible for any future maintenance of any and all drainage systems located within their property outside of the 151st Avenue SE right-of-way and said drainage easement, recorded under Recording No. 20070315001247, records of King County.
4. The department of transportation records indicates that King County has been maintaining 151st Avenue SE. The records indicate that public funds have been expended for its acquisition.
5. The department of transportation considers the subject portion of the right-of-way useless as part of the county road system and believes the public would benefit by the return of this unused area to the public tax rolls.
6. The right-of-way is classified as B-Class and, in accordance with King County Code 14.40.020, the compensation due King County is based on seventy-five percent of the assessed value of the subject right-of-way, which was determined from records of the department of assessments. King County is in receipt of $6,909.75 from the petitioners.
Due notice was given in the manner provided by law and a hearing was held by the office of the hearing examiner on the 7th day of March 2007.
In consideration of the benefits to be derived from the subject vacation the council has determined that it is in the best interest of the citizens of King County to grant said petition.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The council, on the effective date of this ordinance, hereby vacates and abandons that portion of 151st Avenue Southeast as conveyed to King County by the recording of the Plat of Horizon View Addition Division C recorded in Volume 56 of Plats, Pages 20 and 21, records of King County, Washington as described below:
That portion of the 151st Avenue Southeast right-of-way as dedicated in the plat of Horizon View Addition Division C recorded in Volume 56 of Plats, Pages 20 and 21, records of King County Washington, bounded by the following described line:
Beginning at the northeast corner of Lot 1, of said plat, thence westerly along the north line of said Lot 110.99 feet to the east margin of 151st Avenue SE, as recorded in said Plat, which is the POINT OF BEGINNING. Thence continuing westerly along said north line to it's intersection with the east margin of 168th Avenue SE, as recorded on the Plat of Horizon View Addition Division A, recoded Volume 48 of Plats, Page 44, records of King County, Washington.
Thence southerly along said east margin to its intersection with the westerly extension of the south line of said Lot 1. Thence easterly along the extension of said south line to the west line of said Lot 1. Thence northerly and northeasterly along the west line of said Lot 1 to the POINT OF BEGINNING.