Drafter
Clerk 03/14/2006
Title
AN ORDINANCE approving the King County agency tenants to occupy the new county office building located on Fifth Avenue and Jefferson Street.
Body
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings. The council hereby makes the following findings of fact:
A. Section 220.20 of the King County Charter establishes the council as the policy determining body of the county. Council powers include the adoption by ordinance of comprehensive plans, including improvement plans for the present and future development of the county.
B. Ordinance 15328 adopted the 2005 Space Plan, which consists of space planning policies, policy direction on the location of county agencies and an implementation plan for those policies.
C. The 2005 Space Plan provides policy direction on the colocation of county agencies, stating that the county shall colocate services when functional relationships or user accessibility warrant and when economically feasible.
D. Space planning policies further state that the county shall continue to move from dependence on short-term leased space in the downtown Seattle area to owned space or long-term leased space with the option to own when lease space exceeds ten percent of downtown occupied space and when building ownership will provide a long-term cost benefit to the county.
E. The 2005 Space Plan established programming space standards that are to be prescribed as per square foot ranges for various categories of county employees and specialty programmed space. These standards are to be used during planning and design.
F. The 2005 Space Plan stated that county space standards may be further tested through the process of programming the new county office building. Space standards shall be refined in future space plans.
G. The space plan authorized the executive to proceed with programming of standard office space within the new county office building for the following tenan...

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