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Clerk 12/02/2004
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into an exchange of one county-owned, undeveloped parcel for one privately owned, undeveloped parcel, and the granting of eight easements by King County associated with those parcels within council district 12.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County owns parcel 252405-9207, described in Attachment A, Exhibit Al, to this ordinance. This parcel is a part of Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park. It is separated from the main body of Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park as it lies on the east side of 166th Way SE. C&R Investors wishes to purchase this parcel for a water detention facility to serve the development of its new fifty-two-acre subdivision, which will also lie on the east side of 166th Way SE.
2. C&R Investors owns parcel 252405-9178, further described in Attachment A, Exhibit B1, to this ordinance. This parcel is contiguous to Cougar Mountain Regional Wildland Park, lying on the west side of 166th Way SE. King County wishes to purchase the parcel because it is immediately adjacent to the park.
3. Pursuant to K.C.C. 4.56.100, the parcels are of similar value and may therefore be exchanged.
4. Also included in this exchange, and further described in Attachment A to this ordinance, are road and slope easements granted by King County to C&R Investors. These road and slope easements will be used to improve 166th Way SE to serve the proposed fifty-two-acre subdivision. Upon completion, C&R Investors will dedicate all of the permanent easements in this ordinance to public use.
5. Also described in Attachment A to this ordinance in Exhibit A2 is an easement representing a 0.45-acre portion of Cougar Mountain Wildlife Park, parcel 252405-9003. This portion of parcel 252404-9003 lies on the NE side of 166th Way SE and is intended to be included as a part of C&R Investors's water detention facility described in Statement of Facts 1 of this ordin...
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