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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the King County executive to execute a purchase and sale agreement and all necessary conveyance documents to complete the sale of the county-owned property known as the Summit Pit regional roads maintenance facility, located in council district 9, to Summit Place 156 LLC.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings.
A. King County owns a 156.5 acre undeveloped parcel of land commonly know as the Summit Pit regional roads maintenance facility ("Summit"), located in unincorporated King County, surrounded by the city of Maple Valley, approximately thirty-one miles southeast of downtown Seattle.
B. Summit was purchased by King County in 1953 and has been used since that time as a major headquarters for roads maintenance operations servicing southeastern King County. Use of the site has expanded over the years to its current use as a regional roads maintenance operations center, gravel mine, and road waste processing/recycling facility. Summit has capacity to support the unincorporated areas of southeast King County, as well as the road services the county provides on a contract basis to cities including Covington, Maple Valley and others. Although Summit functions well in terms of operational capability and service delivery, over time it has become surrounded by urban residential developments which are increasingly incompatible with the maintenance operations that frequently run potentially twenty-four hours per day.
C. Additionally, most of the existing roads maintenance facilities and operations at the Summit site were designed and built to standards of the 1950s and are inadequate to meet the needs for a South King County regional road maintenance facility for the next thirty to fifty years. Although the existing facility could be improved, it is not realistic to expect a thirty-year return on significant investments at Summit given the encroachment of residential development.
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