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Clrk 04/23/2009
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AN ORDINANCE approving the Highline Water District 2008 Comprehensive Water System Plan.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County adopted K.C.C. chapter 13.24, which requires approval of comprehensive plans for water and sewer utilities that distribute or obtain water in unincorporated King County as a prerequisite for operating in unincorporated King County, receiving approval for annexation proposals, being granted right-of-way franchises and being given approval for right-of-way construction permits. K.C.C. 13.24.060 prescribes the requirements for approval of such plans, including consistency with state and local planning requirements.
2. RCW 57.16. 010 requires that general comprehensive plans for water districts must be submitted to and approved by the legislative authority within whose boundaries all or a portion of the district lies.
3. King County last approved the Highline Water District Comprehensive Water System Plan ("the plan") in 2002. Both Washington state Department of Health ("the DOH") and King County regulations require water system plans to be updated every six years.
4. The Highline water district ("the district") is wholly within King County and has adopted a 2008 comprehensive water system plan.
5. King County has adopted a comprehensive plan that includes water supply policies in its provisions for facilities and services (policies F-213 through F-245) that call for consistency with other adopted plans, support for regional water supply planning, pursuit of reclaimed water, water conservation and protection of water resources.
6. K.C.C. chapter 13.24 requires review of water system plans by the utilities technical review committee, and that a recommendation be made to the King County executive and council on the plan and the requirements under K.C.C. chapter 13.24 and consistency with the King County Comprehensive Plan. The utilities technical review committee has reviewed the planning ...

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