Drafter
Clerk 06/23/2005
Title
AN ORDINANCE approving the June 2005 amendment to the Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District Comprehensive Wastewater Plan.
Body
PREAMBLE:
K.C.C. chapter 13.24 requires approval of sewer utility comprehensive plans as a prerequisite to the granting of right-of-way franchises and approval of right-of-way construction permits.
K.C.C. 13.24.090 and 13.24.134 authorize expansion of sewer service in rural areas to meet the needs of public schools only when tightlined, and when based upon a finding by the King County utilities technical review committee ("UTRC") that no cost-effective alternative technology is feasible. The decision on such an expansion is to be made in the form of an approval of a sewer comprehensive plan or of an amendment to such a plan.
The Sammamish Plateau Water and Sewer District ("the district") has an existing comprehensive wastewater plan that was initially approved by King County on August 30, 1983 (Ordinance 6506). That plan has subsequently been amended several times, with the last such amendment approved by King County on May 12, 1995 (Ordinance 11768).
In October 2003, the district's board of commissioners approved a new Draft Wastewater Comprehensive Plan ("draft plan") for distribution and review. The draft plan includes a proposed change in the district's sewer service area boundaries to include a site on the Issaquah-Fall City Road chosen by the Issaquah School District for a new ninth-grade campus. The school site is within the existing district corporate boundaries, adjacent to the existing sewer service area, and in an area designated rural under the King County Comprehensive Plan.
The district issued a determination of nonsignificance ("DNS") for the draft plan on November 4, 2003, in accordance with the state Environmental Policy Act ("SEPA").
In accordance with K.C.C. chapter 13.24, the UTRC reviewed the draft plan on February 11, 2004, and conditionally approved it, pe...
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