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Clerk 04/01/2013
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to execute an intergovernmental agreement with the city of Maple Valley related to the Maple Ridge Highlands annexation area.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. Over an approximately ten-year period beginning in the late 1990s, Polygon Northwest Company ("Polygon") proposed and implemented four divisions of the Maple Ridge Highlands residential developments, which vested in King County. The developments included a number of drainage facilities that must be transferred via interlocal agreement from King County to the city of Maple Valley, whose residents the facilities now serve.
2. The development was implemented under King County's 4 to 1 program, which allowed for development in rural-designated areas under the condition that for every one developed acre the property owner would dedicate four nearby acres to public open space use. The designation of the developed area would then change from rural to urban and be eligible for annexation by a city.
3. In 1997, the city of Maple Valley ("the city"), adjacent to Maple Ridge Highlands, incorporated and King County and the city executed an interlocal agreement to transfer the county-owned drainage properties and facilities within the city limits to the city.
4. In 2001, construction on the Maple Ridge Highlands developments began. In accordance with applicable county regulations and standards, as part of the developments a total of ten tracts were deeded to the county for drainage purposes and eight drainage facilities were constructed. Due to a provision of King County Code governing the implementation of developments under the 4 to1program, five of the drainage tracts and drainage facilities were situated in the dedicated open space portion of the development, outside the urban growth area.
5. In November 2008, King County and Polygon entered into an agreement ("the 2008 agreement") to address the fact that a subcontractor had not installed...
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