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Clerk 8/2/2007
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing King County's sale of improved property, located at 22621 SE 206th Street, Maple Valley, within council district nine.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. The water and land resources division of King County's department of natural resources and parks is custodian of a parcel known as the West Property (West), located at 22621 SE 206th Street, in Maple Valley. West's assessor parcel number 511240-0040 has 5.01 acres, a residence, small barn, and several outbuildings. It is located adjacent to the county's Taylor Creek flood reduction and habitat restoration project, which was substantially completed in 2006.
B. West was acquired as an 11-acre parcel in spring of 2004 for use in the Taylor Creek restoration. A five-acre portion of the west parcel was unnecessary to the project. The water and land resources division determined that the highest and best use of this remaining west acreage would be a boundary line adjustment with an unutilized portion of the parcel to the south, which had also been purchased for the project. The boundary line adjustment (#L04L0077) was allowed under K.C.C. chapter 19A.08 and recorded in January 2005 (recording no. 20050222900014), creating West as a marketable residential property.
C. In 2006, the water and land resources division determined that the newly defined 5-acre West property was not necessary for recreational, open space, or public park use, but that a permanent planting easement of approximately one quarter acre on the southwest side of the west parcel must be reserved to fulfill Taylor Creek's stream buffer requirements. With an intended sale of this parcel subject to the planting easement reservation, water and land resources division declared the property surplus to its needs.
D. Pursuant to K.C.C. 4.56.100, the facilities management division determined that West also does not meet the criteria for ...

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