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Clerk 07/05/2002
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AN ORDINANCE relating to comprehensive planning; adopting the 2002 King County space plan update; and amending Ordinance 10810, Section 1, and K.C.C. 20.12.100.
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PREAMBLE:
For the purpose of effective land use planning the King County council makes the following legislative findings:
King County has adopted the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan to meet the requirements of the Washington state Growth Management Act.
The King County space plan is a subelement of the capital facilities element of the King Comprehensive Plan and any amendments to that plan are currently required to be submitted by the executive to the council by August 1 of each year.
The Growth Management Act requires the county's comprehensive plan to be amended only once each year except for amendments including those to the capital facilities element of the comprehensive plan that occur in conjunction with the adoption of the county budget.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 10810, Section 1, and K.C.C. 20.12.100 are each hereby amended to read as follows:
County space plan. The county space plan, consisting of space standards, current and future space needs, county facility development policy framework, previously adopted county facility master plans and the annual county facility planning work program ((and attached hereto)) as contained in Attachments A and B ((,)) to this ordinance is adopted as a subelement of the public facilities element of the comprehensive plan and the master plan for county facility development as defined in K.C.C. 4.04.020. The adopted space plan shall govern development of all facility master plans, facility program plans and CIP and lease requests for space housing county agency operations.
The executive shall update the current and future space needs and facility work program sections of the county space plan and submit them to the council as amendments to the county space pl...
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