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AN ORDINANCE relating to comprehensive planning and zoning; adopting amendments to the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan and area zoning, to comply with the Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board's Decision and Order on Supreme Court Remand in Vashon-Maury Island, et. al v. King County, case No. 95-3-0008, remanding portions of the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan to the county for modification; amending Ordinance 263, Article 2, Section 1, as amended, and KCC 20.12.010 and Appendix B to Ordinance 12824 and repealing Ordinance 13962, Section 1, Ordinance 13962, Section 2, and Ordinance 13962, Section 3.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. On October 9, 2000, the King County council adopted Ordinance 13962 redesignating a portion of the Bear Creek UPD site from urban to rural. Ordinance 13962 also rezoned the affected portion of the Bear Creek UPD site from UR-P-SO to RA-5-P-SO.
B. Ordinance 13962 was adopted to comply with the June 15, 2000, Final Decision and Order issued by the growth management hearings board in Vashon-Maury Island et al. v. King County, Case No. 95-3-0008 (Bear Creek portion). Because of the compliance deadline set by the board in that case, Ordinance 13962 was adopted as an emergency ordinance, without providing all of the public notice ordinarily provided for the adoption of development regulations.
C. On October 11, 2000, the board held a hearing to determine whether Ordinance 13962 complied with the board's June 15, 2000, order. On November 3, 2000, the board issued its Order Finding Partial Noncompliance and Partial Invalidity in this matter. King County received this order on November 6, 2000.
D. In its November 3, 2000, order, the board ordered King County to readopt Ordinance 13962 on a noninterim basis, following a public hearing conducted after appropriate public notice. The board also ordered the county to fix a typographical error contained on...

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