King County - File #: 2015-0433

• File #: 2015-0433
• Version: 1
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Lapsed
• File created: 10/26/2015
• In control: Transportation, Economy, and Environment Committee
• Final action: 2/1/2017
• Title: AN ORDINANCE relating to the merger of the timber land classification with the designated forest land program; amending the public benefit rating system for open space and the agricultural current use assessment provisions; and amending Ordinance 10511, Section 3 as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.010; Ordinance 17052, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.015; Ordinance 17052, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.020; Ordinance 14199, Section 228, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.030; Ordinance 17052, Section 3, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.040; 17052, Section 4, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.060; Ordinance 17052, Section 6, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.080; Ordinance 17052, Section 7, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.090; Ordinance 17052, Section 8, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.100; Ordinance 1886, Section 11, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.120; Ordinance 1886, Section 12, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.130; Ordinance 10511, Section 6, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.160; Ordinance 10511, Section 9, ...
• Sponsors: Larry Phillips, Rod Dembowski
• Indexes: Timber Land
• Code sections: 20.36.010 - ., 20.36.015 - , 20.36.020 - . , 20.36.030 - , 20.36.040 - , 20.36.050 - ., 20.36.060 - , 20.36.070 - ., 20.36.080 - ., 20.36.090 - ., 20.36.100 - , 20.36.110 - ., 20.36.120 - ., 20.36.160 - ., 20.36.170 - , 20.36.180 - .

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
1/19/2016	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Reintroduced
10/26/2015	1	Metropolitan King County Council	Introduced and Referred

Drafter
Clerk 10/15/2015
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AN ORDINANCE relating to the merger of the timber land classification with the designated forest land program; amending the public benefit rating system for open space and the agricultural current use assessment provisions; and amending Ordinance 10511, Section 3 as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.010; Ordinance 17052, Section 1, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.015; Ordinance 17052, Section 2, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.020; Ordinance 14199, Section 228, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.030; Ordinance 17052, Section 3, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.040; 17052, Section 4, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.060; Ordinance 17052, Section 6, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.080; Ordinance 17052, Section 7, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.090; Ordinance 17052, Section 8, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.100; Ordinance 1886, Section 11, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.120; Ordinance 1886, Section 12, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.130; Ordinance 10511, Section 6, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.160; Ordinance 10511, Section 9, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.180; as well as Ordinance 17052, Section 10, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.190 and repealing Ordinance 17052, Section 5, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.070, Ordinance 17052, Section 9, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.110, and Ordinance 15137, Section 9, as amended, and K.C.C. 20.36.170.
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PREAMBLE:
Current use taxation programs, as defined in chapters 84.33 and 84.34 RCW, offer a property tax reduction to landowners who voluntarily preserve or manage lands within four categories: open space land or land in the public benefit rating system, farm and agriculture land, timber land and designated forest land.
In 2014, Washington state Senate Bill 6180 lowered the minimum acreage requirement for designated forest land to five acres, in effect making the timber land program duplicative of the designated forest land program. As a result of this statutory change, the timber land program can be merged into the designated for...