Drafter
Clerk 10/29/2007
Title
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the executive to execute a term-limited easement and bill of sale and all other necessary conveyance documents to grant certain property rights to the YWCA to facilitate the development of Passage Point, adjacent to the Cedar Hills landfill, located in council district 9.
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BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNTY COUNCIL OF KING COUNTY:
SECTION 1. Findings:
A. King County owns an approximately nine-hundred-twenty-acre parcel of land known as the Cedar Hills landfill, which was acquired by King County from the state of Washington.
B. Within the buffer of the landfill, a residential in-patient treatment facility was developed by the State, and operated by King County. The facility was known as the Cedar Hills Alcohol Treatment facility, or CHAT.
C. In 2005, a proposal to redevelop the property as transitional and affordable housing was developed between King County and the YWCA. This proposal was to create up to seventy units of affordable housing over two phases in a project called Passage Point.
D. In its 2006 Budget Ordinance, Ordinance 15333, King County committed to pay $4,000,000 for capital costs and $100,000 in administrative costs associated with the Passage Point project.
E. Two easements with an initial term of fifty years and an option to extend the term for an additional twenty-five years together with a bill of sale transferring certain personal property and site improvements to Passage Point Housing Limited Partnership, which is the entity created by the YWCA to carry out the project, have been negotiated.
F. The council hereby finds pursuant to K.C.C. 4.56.080 and 4.56.115 that grant of the term-limited easement is in the best interest of the county.
SECTION 2. The King County executive is hereby authorized to execute a term limited easement along with a bill of sale, substantially in the forms of Attachments A
and B to this ordinance, and any other necessary doc...
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