File #: 2012-0124    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
File created: 3/26/2012 In control: Committee of the Whole
On agenda: Final action: 6/25/2012
Enactment date: 7/3/2012 Enactment #: 17365
Title: AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to grant an easement to the Washington State Public Stadium Authority for non-exclusive parking rights in a Metro transit division parking garage located in Council District 8.
Sponsors: Joe McDermott
Indexes: Agreement, Parking, Stadium
Attachments: 1. 17365.pdf, 2. 2012-0124 Fiscal Note FMD.xls, 3. 2012-0124 Fiscal Note Transit.xls, 4. 2012-0124 transmittal letter.doc, 5. 2012-0124 Metro Garage SR for COWkhm - pcv2, 6. 2012-0124 Amendment 1 draft 3 pm, 7. A. Parking Easement Agreement, 8. 2012-0124 Attach 6, 9. A. Parking Easement Agreement, 10. 2012-0124 REVISED Staff Report Metro Garage, 11. A. Parking Easement Agreement, as amended by Council dated Revised 6-25-12, 12. Amendment #1 6-25-12.pdf
Staff: Carlson, Paul
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to grant an easement to the Washington State Public Stadium Authority for non-exclusive parking rights in a Metro transit division parking garage located in Council District 8.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL OF KINGCOUNTY:
SECTION 1.Findings:
A. King County Metro transit division (Metro) owns a parking garage (the Metro Garage) located at 6th Avenue South and South Royal Brougham Way in the City of Seattle, Washington. The Metro Garage is located within and is a component of Metro’s Central Campus and primarily is used for parking by Metro’s employees.
B. The parking garage was built in 2003 and contains spaces for 1009 vehicles, a capacity that exceeds the need that Metro transit division has for parking at this site.
C. Pursuant to Ordinance 15820, the King County executive executed a purchase and sale agreement (the Agreement), dated June 21, 2007, for the sale of the north half of the old Kingdome parking lot (North Lot) to North Lot Development, L.L.C. (the Buyer).
D. Section 4.5.5 of the Agreement requires the Buyer to provide temporary replacement parking for the Public Stadium Authority (PSA) either on or off-site that is acceptable to the PSA in order to compensate the PSA for parking on the North Lot displaced by Buyer’s construction activities on the North Lot.
E. Section 4.5.5 of the Agreement also requires the Buyer to provide 491 permanent replacement parking spaces for the PSA on the North Lot.
F. Section 4.5.5 of the agreement also provides that Buyer may be relieved of complying with some or all of the parking requirements with the written consent of the PSA.
G. Sale of North Lot closed on September 26, 2011; however, the requirements for replacement parking remain in force as part of the Agreement and separate covenants that run with the land.
H. The requirement for temporary replacement parking was satisfied at closing when KingCounty issued a Special U...

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