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AN ORDINANCE declaring a one-year moratorium prohibiting the acceptance of applications for the establishment of new or expansion of existing wineries, breweries, distilleries, and remote tasting rooms, as primary or accessory uses or as home occupations or home industries; and prohibiting temporary use permits for wineries, breweries, distilleries, and remote tasting rooms; establishing a work plan; and declaring an emergency.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. King County has authority, pursuant to constitutional police powers, home rule authority, and the Washington state Growth Management Act, chapter 36.70A RCW ("GMA"), to establish a moratorium to preclude the acceptance of certain new development applications and preclude the establishment of otherwise allowed uses while the litigation is ongoing.
B. Ordinance 19030 established updated regulations for winery, brewery, distillery facilities and remote tasting rooms in unincorporated King County.
C. Ordinance 19030 was challenged on State Environmental Policy Act, chapter 43.21C RCW ("SEPA") and GMA grounds by Friends of Sammamish Valley, a Washington nonprofit corporation, A Farm in the Sammamish Valley, LLC, Marshal Leroy d/b/a Alki Market Garden, Eunomia Farms LLC, Olympic Nursery Inc., C-T Corp., Roots of Our Times Cooperative, Regeneration Farms LLC, Hollywood Hill Association, Terry and David R. Orkiolla, Judith Allen, and Futurewise to the Growth Management Hearings Board ("board") and designated as case number 20-3-0004c. On May 26, 2020, the board, in its Order on Dispositive Motions for Case No. 20-3-0004c ("the board's May 2020 order"), invalidated most of the substantive sections of Ordinance 19030, including Sections 12 through 29, Section 31, and Map Amendments 1 and 2. Ordinance 19030, Sections 12 through 29, and Section 31 include definitions, zoning conditions, parking restrictions, temporary use permit clarifications, home occupation...

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