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Home My WebLink About5891 ORDINANCE NO.5 8 9 1 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUBURN, WASHINGTON, RELATING TO PLANNING; ADOPTING COMPREHENSIVE PLAN MAP AND TEXT AMENDMENTS PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF R.C.w. CHAPTERS 36.70AAND 35A.63 WHEREAS, the City of Auburn on August 18, 1986 adopted a Comprehensive Plan by Resolution No. 1703 which includes a Map establishing the location of the Comprehensive Plan Land Use Designations throughout the City; and WHEREAS, on April 17, 1995 the City of Auburn adopted Comprehensive Plan Amendments by Resolution No. 2635 to comply with the Washington State Growth Management Act; and WHEREAS, the City of Auburn on September 5, 1995 reaffirmed that action by Ordinance No. 4788; and, WHEREAS RCW 36.70A.130(4) requires that counties and cities to take action to review and, if needed, revise their comprehensive plans to ensure the comprehensive plan meets the requirements of Chapter 36.70A RCW; and, WHEREAS, Planning and Community Development Department conducted a "consistency" review of the Comprehensive Plan and identified ------------------------ Ordinance No. 5891 December 14, 2004 Page 1 areas to be addressed to ensure compliance with the Growth Management Act, as amended; and WHEREAS, the City of Auburn provided the public the opportunity to request map and/or text changes to the Comprehensive Plan and received one privately initiated plan map amendment request by the June 25, 2004 deadline established to request such amendments; and WHEREAS, Comprehensive Plan map and text amendments were processed by the Planning and Community Development Department as proposed Year 2004 amendments to the City of Auburn Comprehensive Plan; and, WHEREAS, as a result of the consistency review, the City of Auburn is updating its comprehensive plan to incorporate updated housing and employment allocations provided for by the King County Countywide Planning Policies and Pierce County Countywide Planning Policies; incorporate updated demographic and socio-economic data from the US Census Bureau and other sources, and include other technical updates; and WHEREAS, the City of Auburn, in conjunction with King County and other cities and towns in King County, participated in processes intended to allocate updated Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) population projections for King County; and ------------------------ Ordinance No. 5891 December 14, 2004 Page 2 WHEREAS, the City of Auburn, in conjunction with Pierce County and other cities and towns in Pierce County, participated in processes intended to allocate updated Washington State Office of Financial Management (OFM) population projections for Pierce County; and WHEREAS, the City of Auburn has been assigned a target of 5,928 additional housing units and 6,079 additional jobs under the King County Countywide Planning Policies for that portion of the City of Auburn lying in King County to the year 2022; and, WHEREAS, the City of Auburn population allocation for Pierce County was 7,950 people for that portion of the City of Auburn lying in Pierce County to the year 2022; and, WHEREAS, the City of Auburn Comprehensive Plan has been updated to reflect these newly population and/or employment allocations; and, WHEREAS, the City of Auburn has reviewed its planned densities as part of the comprehensive plan update process and identified areas where planned densities are less than four units per net acre; and, WHEREAS, certain areas in the City with a plan designation less than four units per acre are designated as urban separators under the King County Countywide Planning Policies and are not allowed to be redesignated to higher ------------------------ Ordinance No. December 14, 2004 Page 3 densities for a 20 year planning period (King County Countywide Planning Policy LU-27); and, WHEREAS, other areas with densities less than four units per net acre consist of the Coal Creek Springs watershed area, an area that is large in scope which features wellhead protection zones, shorelines of the State associated with the White River, floodplains, wetlands, wildlife habitat areas, streams including Bowman Creek and Coal Creek Springs, erosion hazard areas all of which when taken together comprise an area that is complex in structure and function and has a high rank order value; and, WHEREAS, the environmental impacts of the Year 2004 Comprehensive Plan amendments were considered in accordance with procedures of the State Environmental Policy Act under City case files SEP04- 0025 (CPM#1), SEP04-0027 (PIT#4 - City of Auburn Six Year CFP) and SEP04-0029 (remainder of the city-wide amendments) with a Determination of Non-Significance (DNS) issued on each proposal; and WHEREAS, the proposed plan amendments were sent to State agencies for the 60-day review process in accordance with RCW 36.70A.106 on August 19, 2004; and WHEREAS, said 60-day State agency review process concluded on October 18, 2004 with no comments received from State agencies; and ------------------------ Ordinance No. 5891 December 14, 2004 Page 4 WHEREAS, the Planning Commission held open public meetings/study sessions on the proposed Comprehensive Plan amendments on August 31, 2004, September 8, 2004, and September 28, 2004; and WHEREAS, after proper notice published in the City's official newspaper at least ten (10) days prior to the date of hearing, the Auburn Planning Commission on October 5, 2004 conducted a public hearing on the proposed amendment; and WHEREAS, at the public hearing the Auburn City Planning Commission heard public testimony and took evidence and exhibits into consideration; and WHEREAS, thereafter on October 14, 2004 the Auburn City Planning Commission made recommendations to the City Council on the proposed Year 2004 Comprehensive Plan map and text amendments; and WHEREAS, on November 22, 2004 the Planning and Community Development Committee of the Auburn City Council reviewed the Planning Commission's recommendations and made a recommendation to the City Council; and WHEREAS, after proper notice published in the City's official newspaper at least ten (10) days prior to the date of hearing, on December 6, 2004 the Auburn City Council held a duly noticed public hearing and considered the ------------------------ Ordinance No. December 14, 2004 Page 5 proposed Comprehensive Plan amendments as recommended by the City of Auburn Planning Commission; and WHEREAS, at the public hearing the Auburn City Council heard public testimony and took evidence and exhibits into consideration; NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AUBURN, WASHINGTON, DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The 2004 Comprehensive Plan Amendments, as set forth in the documents and maps collectively identified as "Exhibit A" attached hereto and incorporated herein by this reference, are herewith adopted and approved and it is herewith directed that they be filed along with this Ordinance with the Auburn City Clerk and be available for public inspection. Section 2. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this Ordinance or any of the Comprehensive Plan amendments adopted herein, is for any reason held invalid or unconstitutional by any Court of competent jurisdiction, such portion shall be deemed a separate, distinct and independent provision, and such holding shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions thereof. Section 3. The Mayor is hereby authorized to implement such administrative procedures as may be necessary to carry out the directions of this legislation to include incorporating into one document the adopted ------------------------ Ordinance No. 5891 December 14, 2004 Page 6 Comprehensive Plan map and text amendments, attached hereto as Exhibit "A" and preparing and publishing the amended Comprehensive Plan. Section 4. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force five days from and after its passage, approval, and publication as provided by law. INTRODUCED: DEC 2 0 2004 PASSED: DEC 2 0 2004 APPROVED: DEC ? 0 2004 ~~ \ --.:> ~ r ~ PETER B. LEWIS MAYOR ATTEST: /J£u~ ¿Jjo~ Danielle E. Daskam, City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM: ~;el B. He; ity Attorney ,~z+lei~ Published: ------------------------ Ordinance No. December 14, 2004 Page 7