DRAFTER
Clerk 07/27/2022
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AN ORDINANCE revising the corporate boundary of the city of Enumclaw to include the unincorporated portion of Southeast 448th Street right-of-way as provided for in RCW 35A.21.210.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The corporate boundary of the city of Enumclaw currently extends along the south margin of the road right-of-way for Southeast 448th Street from the west property line of parcel number 2720069052 to the west margin of the right-of-way at 244th Avenue Southeast.
2. Southeast 448th Street as described above is a county road.
3. The city has a project at the intersection of 244th Avenue Southeast and Roosevelt Avenue currently in design and scheduled for construction in 2023.
4. Additional right-of-way is required for the improvements extending beyond the current city boundary.
5. The city anticipates neighboring properties within the city boundary adjacent to the south margin of Southeast 448th Street will be developed.
6. It is in the city and the county's best interest to have SE 448th Street right-of-way wholly within the city’s jurisdiction so that the city may make road improvements under city standards and provide local services to its residents including the maintenance and operation of the public right-of-way.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. RCW 35A.21.210 authorizes "the governing bodies of a county and any code city located therein may by agreement revise any part of the corporate boundary of the city which coincides with the centerline, edge, or any portion of a public street, road or highway right-of-way by substituting therefore a right-of-way line of the same public street, road or highway so as fully to include or fully to exclude the at segment of the public street, road or highway from the corporate limits of the city."
B. The Enumclaw city council approved Ordinance No. 2735 to revise the city's corporate boundary to include the unincorporated portions of Southeast 448th Street public right-of-way into the corporate limits of the city.
C. Pursuant to RCW 35A.21.210(2) this boundary revision is not subject to potential review by the boundary review board.
D. Revision of the corporate boundary of the city is effective upon approval by the city council and county legislative authority as provided for in RCW 35A.21.210.
SECTION 2. The revision of the corporate boundary of the city of Enumclaw to include Southeast 448th Street public right-of-way currently within unincorporated King
County, legally described as set forth in Attachment A to this ordinance, is hereby approved.