Drafter
Clerk 09/10/2008
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AN ORDINANCE revising the corporate boundary of the city of Redmond to include a portion of the NE 124th Street right-of-way as provided for in RCW 35.21.790 and 35A.21.210.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. On April 7, 2006, King County, the city of Redmond, and the Quadrant Corporation entered into a settlement agreement to resolve the issues that were raised in the appeal of the Redmond Ridge East Urban Planned Development ("UPD") permit and preliminary plat application.
2. One of the issues addressed in the agreement was the improvement of the intersection of NE 124th Street and Redmond-Woodinville Road. At the time of the agreement, the right-of-way where the improvement was proposed was located in unincorporated King County abutting the north corporate boundary of the city of Redmond.
3. The King County executive and the Redmond city mayor agreed that, if Transportation Improvement Board ("TIB") funding for the intersection improvement was approved, the executive and the mayor would recommend to their respective councils that the boundary between the city and the county in the location of the proposed improvement be moved from the south side of the NE 124th Street right-of-way to the north side, thereby placing that portion of the right-of-way within the city. After the boundary revision, the city of Redmond would have the responsibility for the construction of the improvement.
4. These settlement agreement provisions were incorporated in section 2.10.6 of the Redmond Ridge East UPD permit, which was approved by the King County council in Ordinance 15565 on August 21, 2006.
5. RCW 35.21.790 and 35A.21.210 authorize the county and the city to agree to revise any part of the corporate boundary of the city that coincides with the centerline, edge, or any portion of a county road-right-of way by substituting therefore a right-of-way line of the same county road so as fully to include that segment of the county ro...
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