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A MOTION directing the independent expert review panel for transportation concurrency to review the current practice of excluding highways of statewide significance from transportation concurrency calculations and to recommend whether such practice should continue or be changed, to review the current practice of requiring short subdivisions in the rural area to meet a level of service standard B and to recommend to the council the appropriateness of countywide level of service standards, and to evaluate how proposed changes to the concurrency model diverge from recommendations by the auditor's consultant.
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WHEREAS, a 2006 consultant report for the King County auditor's office assessed the validity of the transportation modeling practices used by the road services division, evaluated the impacts of policy changes to the concurrency program adopted by the King County council in 2004, and suggested eleven recommendations to improve modeling practices, reduce complexity and enhance quality control of the concurrency program, and
WHEREAS, the King County council recently adopted Ordinance 15839 updating the Residential Transportation Concurrency Map and Ordinance 15840 authorizing the formation of an independent expert review panel to provide oversight of the county's transportation concurrency program, and
WHEREAS, an issue was voiced during the council's deliberation of Ordinance 15839 concerning the King County road services division's practice of excluding highways of statewide significance from transportation concurrency calculations, and
WHEREAS, the road services division's practice of excluding highways of statewide significance from transportation concurrency calculations was implemented based on a 2000 King County Comprehensive Plan ("KCCP") policy that was subsequently deleted in the 2004 Update of the KCCP and which read as follows:
"T-212 Consistent with RCW 36.70A.070(6)(C), the concurrency requirements of King County's Concurrenc...
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