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Clerk 06/14/2012
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to execute a twenty-year trails agreement with the city of Seattle to provide for the use by the county of certain real property owned by the city for the purpose of providing public recreational trails.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County is the home to one of the largest nonmotorized trail systems in the country. For forty years, the county has played a leadership role in developing and implementing the overall vision of a countywide regional trails system.
2. The King County Regional Trail System includes over one hundred and seventy-five miles of paved trail that are used to make millions of recreational and commute trips each year by bicyclists, walkers, hikers, skaters and equestrians.
3. Local trails complement this system and offer connections to the regional trail system.
4. Together, King County and other jurisdictions and agencies collectively offer approximately three hundred miles of multi-use paved and unpaved trails connecting urban and rural areas, linking communities and providing recreation and mobility options.
5. King County continues to work with other county agencies, local jurisdictions, Washington State and others to develop this trail network ensuring connectivity throughout the county.
6. The city of Seattle, acting by and through its Seattle Public Utilities Department, owns in fee real property located in King County and commonly referred to as the Tolt Pipeline Right of Way, the Lake Youngs Reservoir Perimeter, the West Seattle Right of Way at Duwamish Waterway, the Snoqualmie Valley/Rattlesnake Lake Connector Trail and the Cedar River Pipeline Drain Right of Way (collectively known as "the property").
7. While the primary purpose of the property is for the transmission and distribution of a public water supply, certain recreational uses are compatible and provide multiple public benefits.
8. In December 1973, King County and the city of ...

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