File #: 2007-0337    Version:
Type: Motion Status: Passed
File created: 5/29/2007 In control: Growth Management and Natural Resources Committee
On agenda: 7/30/2007 Final action: 7/30/2007
Enactment date: Enactment #: 12559
Title: A MOTION directing the executive to convene a task force to undertake the review of measures intended to encourage the continued viability of agriculture within the Snoqualmie Valley Agricultural Production District.
Sponsors: Kathy Lambert, Jane Hague, Larry Gossett, Pete von Reichbauer, Bob Ferguson, Dow Constantine, Reagan Dunn, Larry Phillips, Julia Patterson
Indexes: Countywide Planning Policies, Snoqualmie, City of
Attachments: 1. 12559.pdf, 2. 2006-0337 Staff Report - Snoq Valley APD (7-17).doc, 3. 2007-0337 Revised Staff Report - Snoq Valley APD (7-17-07).doc
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Clerk 7/31/2007
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A MOTION directing the executive to convene a task force to undertake the review of measures intended to encourage the continued viability of agriculture within the Snoqualmie Valley Agricultural Production District.
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WHEREAS, the Growth Management Act ("GMA"), Countywide Planning Policies ("CPPs") and King County Comprehensive Plan ("KCCP") require the delineation and protection of valuable and increasingly limited agricultural resource lands and supports regulations that serve to encourage the continuation of agriculture land uses, and
WHEREAS, King County has identified and designated a number of Agricultural Production Districts (APDs) totaling forty-two thousand acres and has implemented protections through the Agriculture zoning designation, and
WHEREAS, King County has enacted land use policies and regulations that focus much of the agriculture within the county towards the APDs and financially supports agriculture through:
1. Agricultural programs, such as the Farmland Preservation Program, Puget Sound Fresh and farm ditch maintenance; and
2. Funding of the King Conservation District for development of farm management plans, and
WHEREAS, the Snoqualmie Valley APD is the single, largest APD in King County and historically has had a very productive agricultural industry, and
WHEREAS, the Snoqualmie Valley APD is regularly inundated by flood waters due to high levels of precipitation and in the past sixteen years has experienced four of the highest floods on record, with the likelihood of more frequent occurrences in the future, and
WHEREAS, these flood water levels are often increased by a number and variety of factors, such as:
1. Storm water from development on the uplands that drain into the Snoqualmie Valley; and
2. The construction of flood control levees along the downstream portions of the Snoqualmie river that result in the backup of flood waters, and
WHEREAS, the regular occurrence ...

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