Drafter
Clerk 11/7/2006
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AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to enter into an interlocal agreement with the city of Renton relating to the timing and annexation incentive fund transfers to be committed to future annexation of the city's remaining annexation areas and calling for the negotiation of additional interlocal agreements to confirm these commitments.
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STATEMENT OF FACTS:
1. King County's Annexation Initiative encourages the expedited annexation of all remaining urban unincorporated areas in order to achieve both financial stability in the current expense fund, and the regional land use vision set forth in the countywide planning policies.
2. The city of Renton ("the city") has several large potential annexation areas ("PAAs"), located to the east, west and south of the city with an estimated combined population of over sixty thousand residents.
3. The city and county have negotiated an interlocal agreement related to the annexation of the city's East Renton Plateau annexation, calling for the annexation of the "Preserve Our Plateau Annexation" area by March 1, 2007, subject to voter approval and further calling for the city's continued efforts to secure annexation of remaining areas of the East Renton Plateau PAA in the near term.
4. A large portion of the city's Fairwood potential annexation area was subject to a failed incorporation vote in September 2006. The territory proposed for incorporation is referred to as the "Fairwood Community PAA." The city is willing to annex the Fairwood Community PAA if the voters of the area so approve.
5. In June 2006, the city secured approval from the King County boundary review board for a petition annexation of an area within the city's Fairwood PAA to the East and South of the Fairwood Community PAA along State Route 169, referred to as the "Maplewood Addition PAA." The city intends to take action to annex this area effective January 1, 2006.
6. A group of residents living in the...
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