File #: 2026-0022    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: To Be Introduced
File created: 2/24/2026 In control: Local Services and Land Use Committee
On agenda: Final action:
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to execute an amendment to the Landscape Conservation and Local Infrastructure Program interlocal agreement between the city of Seattle and King County to update the list of open space improvement projects authorized by the program.
Sponsors: Rod Dembowski
Indexes: Interlocal Agreement
Attachments: 1. A. Amendment to LCLIP Interlocal Agreement, 2. 0022 transmittal letter, 3. 0022 Fiscal Note, 4. 0022 Legislative Review Form
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to execute an amendment to the Landscape Conservation and Local Infrastructure Program interlocal agreement between the city of Seattle and King County to update the list of open space improvement projects authorized by the program.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. The Washington state Growth Management Act , chapter 36.70A RCW, establishes a policy of directing growth and development into urban areas, protecting rural and resource land, and encouraging the use of innovative tools like transfer of development rights ("TDR") to accomplish these outcomes.
2. King County adopted a TDR program in 2001 ("TDR program") to permanently preserve rural and resource lands by transferring rural development potential into existing incorporated and unincorporated urban areas; since 2001, the TDR program has protected over 148,000 acres of rural and resource lands in unincorporated King County.
3. King County has worked with the city of Seattle to develop a means by which King County TDR may be used to increase density within the city to achieve conservation of rural farm and forest lands in the unincorporated areas.
4. The city of Seattle, by City Council Ordinance 124172, amended SMC chapter 23.58 to allow the South Lake Union, Denny/Broad, and Commercial Core areas of its downtown to be receiving areas for King County TDR, subject to an adopted interlocal agreement with King County.
5. Chapter 318, Laws of Washington 2011, known as the Regional Transfer of Development Rights Program ("LCLIP") and codified mostly in chapter 39.108 RCW, affirmed the value of regional TDR.6. Chapter 39.108 RCW creates a mechanism for the cities and counties to partner on regional TDR efforts and urban infrastructure investments to support urban growth simultaneously with rural and resource land conservation.
7. Chapter 39.108 RCW allows cities to accept development rights from county rural and resource lands ...

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