Drafter
Clerk 01/03/2018
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AN ORDINANCE revising the corporate boundary of the city of Covington to include the unincorporated portion of Southeast 240th Street as provided for in RCW 35A.21.210.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. It is in the county's best interest to allow cities within King County to manage the entirety of roads that coincide with the city's boundaries. RCW 35A.21.210 provides the mechanism to allow cities with King County to adjust their boundaries to fully include roads on the cities' boundaries within the city. RCW 35A.21.210 provides that "[t]he governing bodies of a county and any code city located therein may by agreement revise any part of the corporate boundary of the city which coincides with the centerline, edge, or any portion of a public street, road or highway right-of-way by substituting therefor a right-of-way line of the same public street, road or highway so as fully to include or fully to exclude that segment of the public street, road or highway from the corporate limits of the city.
2. Revision of the corporate boundary of a city is effective upon approval by the city council and the county legislative authority as provided for in RCW 35A.21.210.
3. King County has jurisdiction over Southeast 240th Street from the intersection of the west margin of 180th Avenue Southeast to the western edge Covington Community Park (parcel number 2422059182) and approximately 20 feet wide of the right-of-way from the west margin of 180th Avenue Southeast to the western edge of the Covington Aquatic Center (parcel number 1822069168) and 20 feet wide of the right-of-way from the eastern edge of the Covington Aquatic Center to the city boundary.
4. It is in the city and the county's best interest to have the county right-of-way portion of Southeast 240th Street under the city's jurisdiction so that the city may provide local services to its residents including the maintenance and operation of the public right-of-way.
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