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Clerk 06/19/2019
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the vacation of a portion of 156th Avenue SE and SE 300th Street, Kent, file no. V-2700; Petitioners Robert and Valerie Wyman.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. A petition was filed requesting vacation of a portion of 156th Avenue SE and SE 300th Street, Kent, hereinafter described.
2. The department of transportation notified utility companies serving the area and King County departments of the proposed vacation and has been advised that no utilities require easements over the vacation area. The vacation will not extinguish the rights of any utility company to any exiting easements for facilities or equipment within the vacation area.
3. The department of transportation records indicates that King County has not expended public funds for the acquisition or maintenance of the subject portions of 156th Avenue SE and SE 300th Street right-of-way.
4. The department of transportation considers the subject portion of right of way useless as part of the county road system, believes the public would benefit from vacation, and recommends waiving all monetary compensation from the petitioners.
5. Due notice was given in the manner provided by law. The hearing examiner held the public hearing on April 30, 2019. As detailed in his May 15, 2019, recommendation, the examiner concluded that the road segment subject to this petition is not useful as part of the King County road system, that the public will benefit from its vacation, and that $1,921 is the appropriate amount of compensation due from the petitioners.
6. For the reasons stated in the examiner's recommendation, the council determines that it is in the best interest of the citizens of King County to grant said petition, provided that petitioners pay to King County $1,921 in compensation.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The council vacates and abandons a portion 156th Avenue SE and SE 300th Street Road right-of-way as described below:
All those portions of the 156th Avenue SE and SE 300th Street rights-of-way, as dedicated to King County in the Plat of Soos Creek Five Acre Tracts, recorded in Volume 13, of Plats, on Page 59, records of King County, Washington, located in the Northwest quarter of the Southeast quarter of Section 2, Township 21 North, Range 5 East, Willamette Meridian, King County Washington and lying southerly and westerly of the B.N.R.R. right-of-way.
Situate in the County of King and State of Washington.
Containing approximately 26,362 square feet, more or less.
SECTION 2. Vacation is contingent on petitioners paying $1,921 to King County, within ninety days of the date the council takes final action. If King County does not receive the $1,921 by that date, there is no vacation and the right-of-way remains King County's.