File #: 2016-0484    Version: 1
Type: Ordinance Status: Lapsed
File created: 10/10/2016 In control: Budget and Fiscal Management Committee
On agenda: Final action: 2/1/2017
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: AN ORDINANCE amending the application fee of the public benefit rating system program for open space and timber lands current use assessment provisions; and amending Ordinance 1076, Section 4, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.040.
Sponsors: Dave Upthegrove
Indexes: Public Benefit Rating System
Code sections: 20.36.040 -
Attachments: 1. 2016-0484 legislative review form.pdf, 2. 2016-0484 fiscal note.xlsx, 3. 2016-0484 transmittal letter.doc, 4. 2016-0484_SR_PBRS_Application_Fee_Increase.pdf, 5. 2016 FEE ORDINANCES readvertise Seattle Tiimes 10-26-16, 6. 2016-0484_ATT4_2011_PBRS_Fee_Survey.pdf, 7. fee notice Affidavit of Pub Seattle Times 10-1-16.pdf, 8. 2016-0484_SR_dated_11012016_PBRS_Application_Fee_Increase 11.1.16.docx, 9.
Staff: Popochock, Hiedi
Drafter
Clerk 10/20/2016
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AN ORDINANCE amending the application fee of the public benefit rating system program for open space and timber lands current use assessment provisions; and amending Ordinance 1076, Section 4, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.040.
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PREAMBLE:
Current use taxation programs, as defined in chapters 84.33 and 84.34 RCW, offer a property tax reduction to landowners who voluntarily preserve or manage lands within four categories: open space land or land in the public benefit rating system, farm and agriculture land, timber land and designated forest land.
King County first adopted a public benefit rating system program in 1992, and a number of changes to the program have been made since to improve the program, including a fee increase in 2010. The application fee contributes to the cost of processing the applications for participation in the public benefit rating system and additional revenue received from this proposed increase will reduce the proportion of processing costs covered by the general fund.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. A. Section 2 of this ordinance amends fees currently charged related to applications for open space or timber land under the King County current use taxation program.
B. These fees are assessed under RCW 84.34.030(2).
SECTION 2. Ordinance 1076, Section 4, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.040 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
A. Except as provided in subsection B. of this section, the applicant shall pay a current use filing fee, payable to the King County finance and business operations division or its successor, in the amount of ((four hundred eighty)) one thousand two hundred dollars for each open space or timber land application and one hundred eighty one dollars for each farm and agriculture application.
B. If an application is filed to add farm and agricultural conservation land, forest stewardship land, resource restoration, or rural stewardship land catego...

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