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Clerk 05/11/2017
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AN ORDINANCE approving a settlement agreement among King County, the city of Seattle, the Washington state Department of Transportation and the Alliance for Pioneer Square in an appeal before the Seattle Hearing Examiner regarding the adequacy of the Seattle Department of Transportation's final environmental impact statement for the Alaskan Way, Promenade and Overlook Walk projects.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. On October 31, 2016, the Seattle Department of Transportation issued a Final Environmental Impact Statement for the Alaskan Way, Overlook Walk and Promenade projects.
2. The Alliance for Pioneer Square, a Washington nonprofit corporation, filed an appeal of the Final Environmental Impact Statement before the Seattle Hearing Examiner in case number W-16-008, contending that the Final Environmental Impact Statement is inadequate under the Washington state Environmental Policy Act, chapter 43.21C RCW.
3. The Washington state Department of Transportation and King County intervened in the appeal.
The city of Seattle, Washington state Department of Transportation, the Alliance for Pioneer Square and King County reached an amicable resolution of the appeal as memorialized in the agreement set forth as Attachment A to this ordinance.
5. The settlement agreement is subject to the approval of the Seattle city council and the King County council.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. The settlement agreement among King County, the city of Seattle, the Washington state Department of Transportation and the Alliance for Pioneer Square in Seattle Hearing Examiner case number W-16-008, attached to this ordinance as
Attachment A to this ordinance, is hereby approved and the executive is authorized to implement its terms.