Drafter
Clerk 05/01/2025
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AN ORDINANCE approving the City of Enumclaw 2016 Comprehensive General Sewer Plan with Amendments 1-3.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County has adopted K.C.C. chapter 13.24, which requires approval of comprehensive plans for water and sewer utilities that provide service in unincorporated King County as a prerequisite for operating in unincorporated King County, receiving approval for annexation proposals, granting right of way franchises, and approving right of way construction permits. K.C.C. chapter 13.24 prescribes the requirements for approval of such plans, including consistency with state and local planning requirements.
2. King County has not previously approved a wastewater plan for the city of Enumclaw. King County regulations require sanitary sewer system plans to be updated every six years.
3. The city of Enumclaw wastewater system has a service area within unincorporated King County and has adopted a comprehensive wastewater system plan ("the plan").
4. The city of Enumclaw wastewater system plan proposes to locate a sanitary sewer facility on a Rural designated property.
5. King County has adopted a Comprehensive Plan that includes policies F-402 through F-453, the applicable portions of which address sanitary sewer policies for facilities and services. These sanitary sewer policies call for consistency with other adopted plans, pursuit of reclaimed water, water conservation, protection of water resources, and when a sanitary sewer facility is proposed to be located in the Rural Area, a finding that its location is technically necessary to provide service to the Urban Growth Area.
6. K.C.C. chapter 13.24 requires the utilities technical review committee to review and make a recommendation to the King County executive and council on the plan, the requirements under K.C.C. chapter 13.24, consistency with the King County Comprehensive Plan, and when a sanitary sewer facility is proposed to be located in the ...
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