File #: 2022-0148    Version:
Type: Ordinance Status: Lapsed
File created: 3/22/2022 In control: Local Services and Land Use Committee
On agenda: Final action: 2/1/2024
Enactment date: Enactment #:
Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to winery, brewery and distillery uses; and amending Ordinance XXXXX (Proposed Ordinance 2022-0147), Section 4, and K.C.C. 21A.xx.xxx, Ordinance XXXXX (Proposed Ordinance 2022-0147), Section 5, and K.C.C. 21A.xx.xxx, Ordinance 19030, Section 7, and K.C.C. 6.74.040 and Ordinance 10870, Section 335, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.08.080.
Sponsors: Sarah Perry
Attachments: 1. Acknowledge-Letter-2022-S-3774, 2. 2022-0147-0148_SR_WBDUpdates_05112022, 3. 2022-0147-0148_Att4_DraftStrikingAmendmentOrd2, 4. 2022-0147-0148_Att5_WBDCompareSummary042822, 5. 2022-0147-0148_ATT6_StepsinProduction, 6. 2022-0147-0148_Att7_RCWWACforProductionLicenses, 7. 2022-0147-0148_Att8_ParcelAnalysis, 8. 2022-0147-0148_Att9_Schedule050422, 9. 2022-0147-0148_Att10_Ord1Hearing Notice051222, 10. 2022-0147-0148_SR_dated_05242022_WBDUpdates, 11. 2022-0147-0148_Att8_FINALParcelAnalysisMay2022, 12. 2022-0148_S1_clean, 13. 5. 2022-0148_Amd1toS1, 14. 6. 2022-0148_Amd2 to S1, 15. 7. 2022-0148_T1_clean, 16. 2022-0147-0148_RevisedSR_WBDUpdates, 17. WBD Draft Striker Ordinances Letter FINAL 5.12.22_
Related files: 2022-B0042
Staff: Auzins, Erin
Title
AN ORDINANCE relating to winery, brewery and distillery uses; and amending Ordinance XXXXX (Proposed Ordinance 2022-0147), Section 4, and K.C.C. 21A.xx.xxx, Ordinance XXXXX (Proposed Ordinance 2022-0147), Section 5, and K.C.C. 21A.xx.xxx, Ordinance 19030, Section 7, and K.C.C. 6.74.040 and Ordinance 10870, Section 335, as amended, and K.C.C. 21A.08.080.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. The Washington state Growth Management Act ("GMA"), including RCW 36.70A.130, requires that King County take action to review, and if needed, revise its Comprehensive Plan and development regulations implementing the Comprehensive Plan.
B. Ordinance 19030 established updated regulations for winery, brewery, distillery ("WBD") facilities and remote tasting rooms in unincorporated King County.
C. Ordinance 19030 was challenged to the Central Puget Sound Growth Management Hearings Board ("the board").
D. The board held a hearing on the merits of the petitioner's appeal to Ordinance 19030 on November 17, 2021.
E. On January 3, 2022, the board issued its Final Decision and Order for Case No. 20-3-0004c ("the board's January 2022 order"), which granted the appeal based on SEPA and GMA grounds and invalidated Ordinance 19030, Sections 12 through 30, and map amendments 1 and 2, which were Attachments A and B to Ordinance 19030. Those sections included definitions, zoning conditions, parking requirements, temporary use permit clarifications, home occupation and home industry limitations and a demonstration project. The board's January 2022 order also remanded Ordinance 19030 to the county to take actions to bring it into compliance.
F. Ordinance XXXXX (Proposed Ordinance 2022-0147) responds to the board's January 2022 order with several substantive changes, including changes to improve the protection of agricultural lands and agricultural production districts, protection and enhancement of rural character, and strengthening th...

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