Drafter
Clerk 10/04/2004
Title
AN ORDINANCE related to subdivisions; extending the effective time for preliminary approval of subdivisions of those urban subdivisions required by preliminary plat conditions to install both septic tanks and dry sewers for eventual utility district connection; and amending Ordinance 13694, Section 56, as amended, and K.C.C. 19A.12.020.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings.
A. Under K.C.C. Title 19A, the majority of preliminary subdivisions expire after sixty months from their approval date, unless all conditions of preliminary plat approval have been met and the lots have been recorded.
B. While this time period is ordinarily sufficient to satisfy requirements necessary to record, where project drainage requirements require approval of jurisdictions other than King County, these time periods may be too short to complete additional process and complete associated improvements.
C. The difficulty meeting otherwise applicable time requirements is especially apparent for small subdivisions containing fewer than fifteen lots, where financial resources are often insufficient to allow the expenditures needed to complete the more extensive multijurisdictional process involved and to thereafter implement associated conditions of approval within the current sixty-month approval period.
D. In those particular cases where such developments were required to bear the expense of installing both septic and dry sewer systems, the county has determined that that balance of fairness concerns tips decidedly in favor of providing a preliminary plat approval period that extends twenty additional months beyond the otherwise applicable sixty-month period.
SECTION 2. Ordinance 13694, Section 56, as amended, and K.C.C. 19A.12.020 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
Preliminary approval of subdivision.
A. Preliminary subdivision approval shall be effective for a period of sixty months.
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