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A MOTION relating to comprehensive planning, specifying the scope of work for the 2024 update to the King County Comprehensive Plan in accordance with K.C.C. 20.18.060.
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WHEREAS, King County enacted the 1994 King County Comprehensive Plan ("the plan") to meet the requirements of the Washington State Growth Management Act ("the GMA") in chapter 36.70A RCW, and
WHEREAS, RCW 36.70A.130 requires cities and counties to review and update their comprehensive plans at least once every ten years to ensure continued compliance with the GMA, and
WHEREAS, RCW 36.70A.130 requires King County to complete its next eight-year update by December 31, 2024 ("the 2024 update"), and
WHEREAS, K.C.C. 20.18.030 establishes a process for amending the plan and requires that, beginning in 2024 and every eight years thereafter, the county complete a comprehensive review of, and consider substantive amendments to, the plan to ensure continued compliance with the GMA, and
WHEREAS, the Washington State Environmental Policy Act ("SEPA") in chapter 43.21C RCW requires identification and evaluation of probable significant adverse environmental impacts, alternatives, and mitigation measures during decision-making by local agencies, and
WHEREAS, RCW 36.70A.140 and K.C.C. 20.18.060 and 20.18.160 require early and continuous public participation in the development and amendment of the plan and any implementing development regulations, and
WHEREAS, K.C.C. 20.18.060 requires the executive to transmit to the council a motion specifying the scope of work proposed for an eight-year update to the plan, which must include the topical areas the executive intends to consider for recommendation to the council and the work program the executive intends to follow to accomplish SEPA review and public participation, and
WHEREAS, K.C.C. 20.18.060 requires the scope of work for the 2024 update ("the scope") to be transmitted by the last business day of June 2022, and states that the council has un...
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