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AN ORDINANCE relating to comprehensive planning and zoning; adopting the Vashon-Maury Island Community Service Area Subarea Plan; amending Ordinance 263, Section 1, as amended, as recodified by this ordinance, Ordinance 17842, Section 3, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.12.017, Ordinance 12061, Section 4, and K.C.C. 20.12.325 and Ordinance 13147, Section 19, and K.C.C. 20.18.030, adding new sections to K.C.C. chapter 20.12, adding a new section to K.C.C. chapter 21A.38, recodifying Ordinance 263, Article 2, Section 1, as amended, and repealing Ordinance 12395, Section 2, and Attachment 1, as amended.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings: For the purposes of effective land use and subarea planning and regulation, the King County council makes the following legislative findings:
A. King County adopted the 2016 King County Comprehensive Plan via Ordinance 18472 to meet the requirements of the Washington State Growth Management Act ("the GMA");
B. The 2016 King County Comprehensive Plan adopted program direction for a new Community Service Area subarea planning program;
C. As adopted in the 2016 King County Comprehensive Plan, Vashon-Maury Island is one of King County's seven Community Service Areas and the plan schedule in Chapter 11 identifies the Vashon-Maury Island Community Service Area Subarea Plan as being developed in 2016;
D. The Vashon Community Plan, adopted in 1986 by Ordinance 7837, as amended, was a plan to guide growth and development across all of Vashon-Maury Island. Ordinance 7837 was repealed by Ordinance 13273 and, while some of its policies were retained in the Comprehensive Plan, resulted in the majority of Vashon-Maury Island not having an active subarea plan;
E. The Vashon Town Plan, adopted in 1996 by Ordinance 12395, is an active subarea plan to guide growth, design and development in the Rural Town of Vashon. Many elements and policies of this plan are outdated and require updating;
F. The ...

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