File #: 2009-0349    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 6/1/2009 In control: Committee of the Whole
On agenda: 7/20/2009 Final action: 7/20/2009
Enactment date: 7/30/2009 Enactment #: 16601
Title: AN ORDINANCE adopting an inventory of high conservation value properties and specifying the manner in which an inventory of high conservation value properties will be periodically updated; and adding a new chapter to K.C.C. Title 26.
Sponsors: Bob Ferguson, Reagan Dunn, Jane Hague, Julia Patterson, Dow Constantine, Larry Phillips, Kathy Lambert
Indexes: Property
Attachments: 1. 16601.pdf, 2. A. Inventory of High Conservation Value Properties, 24 June 2009 Revision, 3. 2009-0245 and -0349 Revised staff report 2009-07-13.doc, 4. 2009-0349 Staff report 2009-06-03 with attachments.pdf, 5. 2009-0349 Staff report 2009-06-24 with attachments.pdf, 6. A. Inventory of High Conservation Value Properties, 24 June 2009 Revision, 7. A. Inventory of High Conservation Value Properties--5-27-2009
Staff: Wagner, Nick
Drafter
Clerk 07/02/2009
Title
AN ORDINANCE adopting an inventory of high conservation value properties and specifying the manner in which an inventory of high conservation value properties will be periodically updated; and adding a new chapter to K.C.C. Title 26.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. King County has acquired interests in open space properties in the form of fee simple ownership, conservation easements and development rights. The county has done so using funds from various funding sources, including conservation futures taxes, Forward Thrust, real estate excise taxes, surface water management fees, the river improvement fund, the salmon recovery funding board, the interagency committee for outdoor recreation, voter-approved open space bond funds and state and federal conservation-oriented grants.
B. The primary purposes of acquiring open space properties are to conserve, preserve, protect or enhance natural or scenic resources, timberland devoted primarily to the growth and harvest of timber for commercial purposes, streams, rivers, wetlands, soils, beaches, tidal marshes, fish or wildlife habitat, water quality, passive recreational opportunities, visual quality along highway, road and street corridors and scenic vistas, for current and future generations of King County residents.
C. Preserving the character of open space properties also reduces urban sprawl, provides natural corridors in urban areas and serves to mitigate the effects of human activities that contribute to climate change.
D. The county council wishes to provide enhanced protection of certain high conservation value, open space properties that King County currently owns, or in which the county owns a conservation easement or development rights, without increasing current restrictions on the use of those properties or requiring the county to purchase additional properties.
E. The council by separate ordinance is subm...

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