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AN ORDINANCE relating to comprehensive planning and zoning; adopting amendments to the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan and area zoning, in compliance with the Washington State Growth Management Act, as amended; and amending Ordinance 263, Article 2, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.12.010 and Ordinance 12824, Appendix A.
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PREAMBLE:
For the purpose of effective land use planning and regulation, the King County council makes the following legislative findings:
King County has adopted the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan, to meet the requirements of the Washington State Growth Management Act.
While the Washington State Growth Management Act and K.C.C. chapter 20.18 generally require the county's Comprehensive Plan to be amended only once a year, a subarea plan may be adopted at any time.
King County, with assistance of citizens of King County, business and community representatives, other public agencies and service providers, has studied and considered the proposed Fall City subarea plan recommendations and has considered their cumulative environmental impacts.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 263, Article 2, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.12.010 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
Comprehensive ((p))Plan adopted.
A. Under the ((provisions of the)) King County Charter, ((King County's constitutional authority)) the state Constitution and ((pursuant to)) the Washington State Growth Management Act, chapter 36.70A RCW, the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan is adopted and declared to be the ((c))Comprehensive ((p))Plan for King County until amended, repealed((,)) or superseded. The ((c))Comprehensive ((p))Plan shall be the principal planning document for the orderly physical development of the county and shall be used to guide subarea plans, functional plans, provision of public facilities and services, review of proposed incorporations and annexations, development regulations and land development decisions.
B. The amendments to the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan contained in Appendix A to Ordinance 12061 (King County Comprehensive Plan 1995 amendments) are hereby adopted.
C. The amendments to the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan contained in Attachment A to Ordinance 12170 are hereby adopted to comply with the Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board Decision and Order in Vashon-Maury Island, et. al. v. King County, Case No. 95-3-0008.
D. The Vashon Town Plan((,)) contained in Attachment 1 to Ordinance 12395 is adopted as a subarea plan of the King County Comprehensive Plan and, as such, constitutes official county policy for the geographic area of unincorporated King County defined ((therein)) in the plan and ((amending)) amends the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map.
E. The amendments to the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan contained in Appendix A to Ordinance 12501 are hereby adopted to comply with the Order of the Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board in Copac-Preston Mill, Inc., et al, v. King County, Case No. 96-3-0013 as amendments to the King County Comprehensive Plan.
F. The amendments to the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan contained in Appendix A to Ordinance 12531 (King County Comprehensive Plan 1996 amendments) are hereby adopted as amendments to the King County Comprehensive Plan.
G. The Black Diamond Urban Growth Area contained in Appendix A to Ordinance 12533 is hereby adopted as an amendment to the King County Comprehensive Plan.
H. The 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan and Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map are amended to include the area shown in Appendix A of Ordinance 12535 as Rural City Urban Growth Area. The language from Section 1D of Ordinance 12535 shall be placed on Comprehensive Plan Land Use Map page #32 with a reference marker on the area affected by Ordinance 12535.
I. The amendments to the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan ((contained in the 1997 Transportation Needs report,)) contained in Appendix A to Ordinance 12536 (1997 Transportation Need Report)((,)) are hereby adopted as amendments to the King County Comprehensive Plan.
J. The amendments to the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan contained in Appendix A to Ordinance 12927 (King County Comprehensive Plan 1997 amendments) are hereby adopted as amendments to the King County Comprehensive Plan.
K. The amendments to the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan contained in the 1998 Transportation Needs Report, contained in Appendices A and B to Ordinance 12931 and in the supporting text, are hereby adopted as amendments to the King County Comprehensive Plan.
L. The amendments to the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan contained in Appendix A to Ordinance 13273 (King County Comprehensive Plan 1998 amendments) are hereby adopted as amendments to the King County Comprehensive Plan.
M. The 1999 Transportation Needs Report contained in Attachment A to Ordinance 13339 is hereby adopted as an amendment to the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan, Technical Appendix C, and the amendments to the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan contained in Attachment B to Ordinance 13339 are hereby adopted as amendments to the King County Comprehensive Plan.
N. The Fall City Subarea Plan contained in Attachment A to this ordinance is adopted as a subarea plan of the King County Comprehensive Plan and, as such, constitutes official county policy for the geographic area of unincorporated King County defined in the plan. The Fall City Subarea Plan amends the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan land use map by revising the Rural Town boundaries of Fall City.
O. The amendments to the King County Comprehensive Plan contained in Attachment B to this ordinance are hereby adopted as amendments to the King County Comprehensive Plan.
P. The Fall City area zoning amendments contained in Attachment A to this ordinance are adopted as the zoning control for those portions of unincorporated King County defined in the attachment. Existing property-specific development standards (p-suffix conditions) on parcels affected by Attachment A to this ordinance do not change except as specifically provided in Attachment A to this ordinance.
SECTION 2. Property-specific development standards adopted, repealed or amended by Attachment A to this ordinance amend Appendix A of Ordinance 12824.
SECTION 3. Severability. If any provision of this ordinance or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the ordinance or the application of the provision to other persons or circumstances is not affected.
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Seattle Time, Snoqualmie Valley Record, Issaquah Press-Hearing 12/13/99-Publish Wednesday, November 10, 1999, SVR Thursday, November 10, 1999