Drafter
Clerk 10/13/2006
Title
A MOTION directing the King County executive to analyze the budget impacts of the potential passage of Initiative 933 and to determine what county and state legislative actions may be necessary to authorize the waiver of land use regulations in order to implement Initiative 933.
Body
WHEREAS, Initiative 933, which has qualified to appear on the November 2006 ballot, would require state and local governments to consider and document certain factors prior to enacting laws regulating private property, and
WHEREAS, Initiative 933 would also require, with specific exemptions, governments to pay compensation to private property owners who could show that the use or value of their property would be, or in the case of regulations adopted since 1996, had been damaged by government regulations, and
WHEREAS, there has been significant debate and disagreement about the potential fiscal impacts of Initiative 933 upon state and local governments, as well as, about the authority of these governments to waive enforcement of regulations, as an alternative to providing compensation, and
WHEREAS, an evaluation of these two questions specific to King County has not been conducted and would be useful in informing council decisions on future budgets and legislative agendas;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
A. That the executive present to the council a fiscal analysis of the potential passage of state Initiative 933 and its impacts on the ability to provide the local and regional services King County is mandated to provide;
B. That the executive identify King County regulations that may be waived under its own authority and any necessary amendments to the King County code to allow such waivers; and
C. That the executive provide an outline of council actions that must be
undertaken to request legislative authority from the state to waive those land use regulations that cannot be waived by the county under current state law.
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