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Clerk 05/07/2003
Title
AN ORDINANCE related to zoning, allowing small schools to be established in commercial zones; and amending Ordinance 10870, Section 332, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.08.050.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Small K-12 schools are presently allowed in commercial areas by the cities of Seattle and Sea-Tac.
2. Maintaining a limit on the size of schools in commercial areas minimizes the land use impacts on surrounding commercial and residential areas.
3. Small schools would be an institutional use not unlike others already allowed in commercial areas, such as YMCAs, Boys/Girls clubs and daycare centers, all of which involve gatherings of school-age youth.
4. High schools are presently allowed in the CB zone in unincorporated King County, albeit with a CUP, which is required based on the concept of the traditional high school in terms of size, traffic and land use impacts and long-term presence.
5. Churches are presently permitted outright in the commercial zones in unincorporated King County and churches are presently permitted to have an associated school.
6. Elementary and middle schools are not currently allowed in commercial zones in unincorporated King County based solely on the traditional concept that these public schools serve a particular neighborhood and therefore are ideally suited to be located to be in the middle of a neighborhood on residential zoned land. Smaller, nontraditional schools may serve more than a particular neighborhood.
7. Allowing small schools could provide landowners in economically challenged commercial areas additional flexibility in finding users for their property, revitalizing and attracting new businesses to the commercial area.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 10870, Section 332, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.08.050 are each hereby amended to read as follows:

General services land uses.
A. General services land uses.

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