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Clerk 06/05/2017
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A MOTION approving the Comprehensive Plan Performance Measures Program Framework.
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WHEREAS, the Washington state Growth Management Act, chapter 36.70A RCW, was adopted in 1990 and 1991 and establishes a requirement for jurisdictions to adopt comprehensive plans and requires updates once every eight years, and
WHEREAS, in 2012, King County adopted a comprehensive plan update via Ordinance 17485 that meets Growth Management Act requirements to update the plan once every eight years, and
WHEREAS, as allowed by K.C.C. chapter 20.18, the Comprehensive Plan was updated in 2016 and adopted via Ordinance 18427, which is considered an annual update under the Growth Management Act, and
WHEREAS, the 2016 Comprehensive Plan, in Chapter 12: Implementation, Amendments and Evaluation, contains a set of workplan actions items that, working in conjunction with other King County tools and programs, implement the Comprehensive Plan, and
WHEREAS, 2016 Comprehensive Plan Workplan Action 2 directs the development of long-term indicators to monitor performance that provide insight into whether the goals of the Comprehensive Plan are being achieved or if revisions are needed, and
WHEREAS, K.C.C. chapter 20.18 establishes the procedures for four-year cycle amendments of the Comprehensive Plan and specifies that a motion be transmitted specifying a scope of work for proposed amendments to the Comprehensive Plan. The scope of work must be transmitted to the council the year before the four-year update transmittal. At such a time as the scope of work is established, a report monitoring performance has use and function in guiding what is included in the scope of work, and
WHEREAS, the Comprehensive Plan contains a set of overarching Guiding Principle policies that frame the Comprehensive Plan, and such Guiding Principle policies are an appropriate framework for establishing long-term indicators, and
WHEREAS, given that land use is the core func...

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