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Clerk 03/05/2015
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AN ORDINANCE regarding surface water management; revising surface water management service charges; and amending Ordinance 7590, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 9.08.010, Ordinance 7590, Section 7, as amended, and K.C.C. 9.08.060 and Ordinance 7590, Section 8, as amended, and K.C.C. 9.08.070.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County is supportive of efforts to protect the viability of its agricultural production districts.
2. The ability to sustain viable agricultural uses within these districts is highly reliant upon agriculture-supportive businesses that are needed to be in close proximity so as to reduce costs to agricultural uses.
3. Supportive businesses are often located on smaller parcels adjacent to significant areas of land used for agriculture.
4. Although these supportive businesses may be developed with greater percentages of impervious surfaces, the resulting surface water impacts are mitigated by the adjacent farm lands.
5. The application of the same classification on these supportive businesses in the agricultural production districts, as that would be applied to similarly-developed parcels in the more intensive urban areas, is not appropriate.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Ordinance 7590, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 9.08.010 are hereby amended to read as follows:
The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation and enforcement of this chapter:
A. "Agriculture-supportive " means a property that is located within an agricultural production district and its use provides direct services, such as livestock auction and sales, seed or feed sales, or equipment repair or sales, to agricultural uses in the Agricultural Production District.
B. "Basin plan" means a plan and all implementing regulations and procedures including but not limited to capital projects, public education activities, land use management regulations adopted by ordinance for mana...
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