File #: 2007-0153    Version:
Type: Motion Status: Passed
File created: 3/12/2007 In control: Growth Management and Natural Resources Committee
On agenda: Final action: 4/9/2007
Enactment date: Enactment #: 12497
Title: A MOTION relating to comprehensive planning; specifying the scope of work for the proposed amendment to the King County Comprehensive Plan in 2008 in accordance with K.C.C. 20.18.060.
Sponsors: Larry Phillips
Indexes: Comprehensive Plan, Planning
Attachments: 1. 12497.pdf, 2. 2007-0153 2008 KCCPRegNote.doc, 3. 2007-0153 Staff Report 3-27.doc, 4. 2007-0153 Transmittal Letter.doc, 5. 2008 Revised Staff Report 3-27-07.doc, 6. A. King County Comprehensive Plan Update Topical Areas, 7. A. King County Comprehensive Plan Update Topical Areas - Revised 3/27/07, 8. A. 2008 King County Comprehensive Plan Update, as amended by Council dated April 9, 2007, 9. A. 2008 King County Comprehensive Plan Update, as amended by Council dated April 9, 2007, 10. B. 2008 King County Comprehensive Plan Update Work Program, 11. B. 2008 King County Comprehensive Plan Update Work Program
Title
A MOTION relating to comprehensive planning; specifying the scope of work for the proposed amendment to the King County Comprehensive Plan in 2008 in accordance with K.C.C. 20.18.060.
Body
      WHEREAS, King County enacted the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan ("the plan") to meet the requirements of the Washington state Growth Management Act, and
      WHEREAS, K.C.C. chapter 20.18 establishes a process for amending the plan and a program for public participation and states that every four years, beginning in 2000, the county shall complete comprehensive review of the plan and consider substantive amendments to the plan, and
      WHEREAS, 2008 marks the third four-year review of the plan, and
      WHEREAS, the Washington state Growth Management Act requires King County to review, and if needed revise at least every ten years, its designated urban growth area boundaries in order to accommodate the urban growth projected for the succeeding twenty years, and to review, and if needed revise at least every five years, the Comprehensive Plan and development regulations to ensure they comply with the requirements of the Growth Management Act, and
      WHEREAS, in 1992, King County drew an urban growth area boundary and since 2000, approximately ninety-six percent of the countywide residential development occurred within the urban growth area, and
      WHEREAS, King County has worked hard to protect critical areas and endangered species such as salmon, has constructed affordable housing and has committed resources to enrich its less advantaged communities, and
      WHEREAS, King County must build on these successes and ensure that they continue into the future;
      NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT MOVED by the Council of King County:
      The scope of work for the 2008 King County Comprehensive Plan Update contained in Attachment A to this motion and the work program contained in Attachment B to this motion are hereby approved as the basis for developing the amendments for the
 
King County Comprehensive Plan to be transmitted to the council on March 1, 2008, and for performing the associated environmental analysis.