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Clerk 06/16/09title
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to enter into a temporary, nonexclusive, surface use easement with the city of Shoreline to use land adjacent to the Shoreline district court facility as a park.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County owns a parcel of land, consisting of two acres plus eighty-one percent of an acre, commonly known as the Shoreline district court ("SDC") property, which is located adjacent to the city of Shoreline's Cromwell park. The easterly portion of the SDC is not actively used for court activities and is occupied only by a drainage and surface water retention facility.
2. The city of Shoreline is proposing a temporary use for a portion of the additional SDC property in their Cromwell Park Master Plan ("CPMP").
3. The city of Shoreline citizens passed a park bond in 2006, which includes more than one million six hundred thousand dollars for CPMP upgrades.
4. The CPMP would combine the SDC and Cromwell park stormwater facilities, to use eighty-five percent of an acre located behind the SDC facility for recreation.
5. The SDC allows after hours use of the parking lot for public parking and restrooms for concerts. The SDC has given design preferences to the city for that portion of the CPMP which would be on SDC property. The SDC and King County's facilities management division ("FMD") have reviewed and approved the easement agreement.
6. The city would maintain the eighty-five percent of an acre as a park, maintain SDC diverted stormwater and would preserve SDC facility future growth needs. The majority of this area is currently open to public use, except a fenced area around the existing SDC detention pond.
7. The county has no current funding plan to accomplish the CPMP construction for additional district court rooms.
8. Together, K.C.C. 4.56.115 and 4.56.140 authorize the county to convey easements or enter into agreements with governmental agencies to provide utility ...
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