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APPENDIX K
CITYOF AUBURN
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES
APPENDIX K
CITY OF AUBURN COMPREHENSIVE PLAN OBJECTIVES AND POLICIES
The City of Auburn Comprehensive Plan is based on 22 goals, and several objective and policies to
support those goals, developed in response to a wide range of issues identified during the Plan’s public
involvement process.The following are the goals, policies and objectives that may be applicable to the
proposed project:
Goals
The City seeks to emphasize housing development at single-family densities.While Auburn recognizes
many households can not afford, or do not desire, single-family detached housing, and therefore allows a
wide range of housing types in the community, the development of new single-family detached housing is
a priority of the City in order to maintain its traditional community character.
Goal 13 – City Utilities
To protect the public health and safety by providing efficient and cost effective water, sanitary sewer,
storm drainage and solid waste services to the community. Ensure that development will only occur if the
urban services necessary to support the development will be available at the time of development.
Goal 16 – Transportation System
Auburn will expand and improve its transportation system in cooperation and coordination with adjacent
and regional jurisdictions to ensure concurrency and compliance with the Growth Management Act and to
provide a safe and efficient multi-modal system that meets the community needs and facilitates the land
use plan.
Goal 18 – Environmental and Natural Resources
To maintain and promote a safe and healthy environment, preserve the quality of life and to protect the
area's most unique sensitive and productive natural resources. To encourage natural resources industries
within the City to operate in a manner, which enhances, rather than detracts from, the orderly
development of the City.
Goal 19 – Hazards
To minimize the risk from environmental and manmade hazards to present and future residents of the
community.
Goal 21 – Parks, Recreation and Open Space
To provide and maintain a comprehensive system of parks and open spaces that respond to the
recreational, cultural, environmental and aesthetic needs and desires of City residents.
Land Use Element
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Objective 7.1 – To establish a system of residential density that accommodates a range of housing
policies appropriate for the City.
Policies
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LU-12– The City should promote the provision, preservation and maintenance of adequate
housing for the City’s residents by encouraging a balanced mix of housing types and values
appropriate to the income levels and lifestyles of area residents. Auburn has always been
willing to accept its fair share of low and moderate cost housing opportunities; however, this is
translated into a great disparity in Puget Sound Communities with cities such as Auburn
receiving more of these types of housing than other comparable communities. This has had
impacts in terms of the costs of meeting social services needs as well as some poorly
maintained multi-family properties, which have caused a variety of problems. Auburn will
work to ensure that housing units are equitably distributed across the region in both terms of
physical location and cost.
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LU-14– Residential densities in areas designated for single-family residential use shall be no
greater than 6 units per acre in areas with good transit availability (a quarter mile or less to a
route with at least half hour service), accessory dwelling units should be permitted to allow
increased densities. Provisions in the accessory dwelling unit ordinance will limit the density
increase permitted depending upon the zoning district. The bulk of the single-family residential
communities should be developed at a density between 4 and 6 dwelling units per acre.
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Objective 7.2 – To designate land for the development of new single-family homes.
Policies
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LU-16– In applying the land use designations of the Comprehensive Plan, first consideration
should be given to designating an area for single-family residential use.
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Objective 7.3 – To promote the development of quality single-family neighborhoods, which relate
the design and types of residential areas to important natural and manmade features.
Policies
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LU-18– Residential development should be related to the topography, circulation and other
amenities as guided by the policies of this plan.
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LU-20– The development of new neighborhoods shall be governed by the development
standards, which allow some flexibility. Flexibility should be considered to encourage compact
urban development to provide protection of critical areas and resource areas (including, but not
limited to, agricultural resource areas, cultural resources, forest resource lands, mineral
resource area, hillsides or wetlands.) and to facilitate non-motorized transportation. The City
should implement mechanisms such as planned unit developments, which allow variations from
normal development standards in exchange for enhanced design standards and environmental
protection while maintaining consistency with this plan.
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LU-23– Emphasis shall be placed upon the manner in which the recreational needs of residents
shall be met in the approval of any residential development.
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LU-25– Areas abutting major arterials should be carefully planned to avoid potential conflict
between the development of the arterial and single-family uses. Single-family uses in such
areas should be platted in a manner in which orients units away from the arterial; however, non-
motorized access between the residential area and the arterial should be provided. Where such
orientation is not possible, a transitional area should be zoned for moderate density use. In
areas with existing single-family developments, substantial flexibility can be permitted for
street front buffering.
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Objective 7.4 – To establish new neighborhoods in a way that will minimize the potential for
intrusion of incompatible uses.
Policies
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LU-26– Development design should utilize and preserve natural features, including, but not
limited to, topography and stands of trees to separate incompatible land uses and densities.
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LU-27– Development design should use open spaces, including parks, to separate incompatible
uses.
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LU-28– Development codes shall be modified to allow the City to require that landscaped
buffers, natural area preservation or other measures are utilized to separate new residential
developments from incompatible uses and major streets. These buffers should permit access
between the residential area and the major street by pedestrians and bicyclists.
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Objective 7.5 – To meet the need for multiple family dwellings while avoiding conflict with single-
family residential areas.
Policies
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LU-31– Multiple family developments should be located functionally convenient to the
necessary supporting facilities, including utilities, arterials, parks, transit service, etc.
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LU-33– Multiple family dwellings shall not be permitted as a matter of right in single-family
residential districts, but should be permitted only where necessary to remove potential blight to
buffer single-family uses from incompatible uses or activities or to allow effective use of vacant
areas. Standards for such sites should provide for design review to ensure compatibility and
provide that the density of the development is consistent with the density of adjacent single-
family uses.
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LU-34– Siting of moderate density units shall be encouraged as a buffer between single-family
areas and more intense uses. Such buffering is appropriate along arterials where existing
platting prevents effective lot layout for single-family units. Also, such buffering is appropriate
between single-family areas and commercial and industrial uses. Where there are established
single-family areas, the design and siting of moderate density units shall be controlled to reduce
potentialconflicts and to ensure buffering of uses. Higher density units are not to be
considered such a buffer.
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LU-35– Higher density developments or larger scale multi-family developments should be
limited to residential areas where they can be developed as a unit with the necessary supporting
facilities. Such development shall provide adequate access by developed arterials with minimal
potential to generate traffic through single-family areas. Extensive buffering measures shall be
required where such areas adjoin single-family residential areas. Care should be exercised to
avoid creating barriers to pedestrian and bicycle movements. Where feasible, new multi-family
developments should be planned in conjunction with single-family and moderate density
development.
Goal 8 – Neighborhood Quality
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Objective 8.1 – To maintain and enhance all viable and stable residential neighborhoods.
Policies
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LU-39d– Single-family detached residential neighborhoods should be protected from intrusion
by nonresidential or multi-family uses.
Capital Facilities Element
The Capital Facilities Element of the Comprehensive Plan defines that:
“The provision and sizing of a public facility such as streets or water and sewer
lines can play a significant role in influencing the rate or time in a development
and is an important means of managing growth. Timed provision of facilities
also ensures that new development can be assimilated into the existing
community without serious disruptions or adverse impacts…The overall concept
is known as concurrency…The concurrency provisions of the Growth
Management Act require the local governments may permit development only if
adequate public facilities are, or can be guaranteed to be available to support new
development.” (Auburn Comprehensive Plan, 2002, page 5-2)
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Objective 1.4 – To ensure that new development does not out-pace the City’s ability to provide and
maintain adequate public facilities and services, by allowing new development to occur only when
and where adequate facilities exist or will be provided, and by encouraging development types and
locations which can support the public services they require.
Policies
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CF-1– Lands designated for urban growth by this Plan shall have an urban level of essential
public facilities (sewer, water, storm drainage, and park) prior to or concurrent with
development.
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CF-2– Development shall be allowed only when and where such development can be
adequately served by essential public services (police and fire) without reducing level of
service elsewhere.
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CF-3– If adequate facilities are currently unavailable and public funds are not committed to
provide such facilities, developers must provide such facilities at their own expense in order to
develop.
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CF-12– No new development shall be approved which is not supported by a minimum of
facilities to support the development and which does not provide for a proportionate share of
related system needs.
Goal 13 – City Utilities
Water Service
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Objective 13.1 – To ensure safe and adequate water service for both domestic and fire protection
purposes to meet the needs of the existing community and provide for its planned growth policies.
Policies
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CF-13– The City of Auburn Comprehensive Water Plan is incorporated as an element of this
Comprehensive Plan. The Comprehensive Water Plan for the City of Auburn shall reflect the
planned land uses and densities of this Comprehensive Plan.
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CF-16– The City shall continue its policy requiring that water system extensions needed to
serve new development shall be built prior to or simultaneously with such development,
according to the size and configuration identified by the Comprehensive Water Plan as
necessary to serve future planned development.
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CF-18– The City shall continue to recognize the overall system impacts of new development
under the city water system through the collection and appropriate use of system development
charges of similar fees.
Sanitary Sewers
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Objective 13.2 – To ensure the efficient transmission of sanitary sewer to the appropriate treatment
and disposal facilities in order to meet the needs of the existing community and provide for its
planned growth.
Policies
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CF-22– The Comprehensive Sanitary Sewerage Plan is incorporated as an element of the
Comprehensive Plan. The Comprehensive Sanitary Sewer Plan for the City of Auburn shall be
updated to reflect the planned land uses and densities of this Comprehensive Plan. The 1982
Sewerage Plan shall continue to be in effect until revised and any proposed sewer system
improvements shall be evaluated by the terms of the current Comprehensive Plan on a case-by-
case basis.
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CF-23– The City shall continue its policy requiring that sewer system extensions needed to
serve new developments shall be built prior to or simultaneous with such development
according to size and configuration identified by the Comprehensive Sanitary Sewer Plan and
Comprehensive Plan as necessary to serve future plan development. Location and design of
these facilities shall give full consideration to the ease of operation and maintenance of these
facilities by the City. The City shall continue to use, to the extent permitted by law, direct
participation, LIDs and payback agreements to assist in the financing of such oversized
improvements. Whenever any form of City finance is involved in a sewer line extension, lines
that promote a compact development pattern will be favored over lines traversing large
undeveloped areas where future development plans are uncertain.
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CF-25– The City shall continue to recognize the overall system impacts of new development
upon the City’s sewer system, through the collection and appropriate use of system
development charges and similar fees.
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CF-27– Within those designated urban density areas of the City and within the sanitary sewer
utility’s designated service area, sewage service should be provided by public sewers.
Storm Drainage
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Objective 13.4 – To ensure that collection, conveyance, storage and discharge of storm drainage is
provided in a sufficient and environmentally responsible manner in order to meet the needs of the
existing community and provide for its planned growth.
Policies
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CF-36– The City of Auburn Comprehensive Drainage Plan is incorporated as an element of
this Comprehensive Plan.
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CF-37– The City shall required developers to construct storm drainage improvements directly
serving the development including any necessary offsite improvements.
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CF-38– The City shall require that offsite storm drainage improvements needed to serve new
developments are built prior to or simultaneous with such developments according to the size
and configuration identified by the Comprehensive Drainage Plan as necessary to serve future
planned developments. The location and design of these facilities shall give full consideration
to the ease of operation and maintenance of these facilities by the City. The City shall continue
to use direct participation, LIDs and payback agreements to assist in the financing of offsite
improvements required to serve the development.
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CF-39– The City shall recognize the overall system impacts of new development upon the
City’s drainage system through the collection of system development charges or similar fees to
assist in the financing of new and oversized (e.g. regional) drainage improvements.
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CF-45– The City shall promote policies, which seek to maintain the existing conveyance
capacity of natural drainage courses.
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CF-52– The City shall evaluate the feasibility and opportunity to improve the water quality of
its existing discharges to the river systems to enhance water quality in response to the
Endangered Species Act.
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CF-53– The City shall seek to minimize impacts to the natural river system’s hydrology by
encouraging pretreatment of surface flows of new development and reintroduction of the
groundwater where possible.
Transportation Element
Goal 16 – Transportation System
Auburn will plan, expand and improve its transportation system in cooperation and coordination with
adjacent and regional jurisdictions to ensure concurrency compliance with the Growth Management act
and to provide a safe and efficient multi-modal system that meets the community needs and facilitates the
Land Use Plan.
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Objective 16.2 – To provide an efficient arterial street network.
Policies
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TR-6– The City has four classes of arterials:
B.Minor arterial streets convey traffic onto principal arterials from collector and local streets.
They place slightly more emphasis on land access and offer a lower level of mobility than
principal arterials. Minor arterial streets are typically constructed to accommodate four
lanes of traffic.
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Objective 16.3 – To provide an effective street system of local collectors for local traffic.
Policies
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TR-10– Through traffic shall be discouraged in local residential areas.
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TR-11– Collector streets shall be constructed with curbs, gutters and sidewalks on both sides.
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TR-13– Efficient transportation system seeks to spread vehicle movements over a series of
planned streets. The goal of the system is to encourage conductivity while preventing
unacceptably high traffic volumes on any one street.
B.Accessing new development
1.The internal local residential street network for a subdivision should be designed to
discourage regional through traffic and nonresidential traffic from penetrating the
subdivision or adjacent subdivisions. Local residential streets shall not exceed 1,300
feet in length between intersections and shall not serve more than 75 dwelling units.
2.Where possible, streets will be planned, designed and constructed to connect to future
development.
3.Dead end streets shall not be more than 600 feet in length. Dead end streets ending in
permanent cul-de-sacs shall serve a maximum of 25 dwelling units.
4.Residential developments should be planned in a manner that minimizes the number of
local street accesses to arterials and collector arterials. Residential developments with
greater than 75 dwelling units, including single-family developments, multi-family
developments or any combination thereof, shall have a minimum of 2 accesses to either
a collector arterial or an arterial.
C.Access to existing areas: To promote efficient connectivity between areas of the
community, existing stub end streets shall be linked to other streets in new development
whenever the opportunity arises.
D.Acceptable traffic volumes: Projected trip generation shall be calculated based on the
current edition of the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) Trip Generation manual.
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Objective 16.2 – To provide an efficient arterial street network.
Policies
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TR-6– The City has four classes of arterials:
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Principal arterial streets convey traffic along commercial or industrial activities, and
provide access to freeways. They emphasize mobility and de-emphasize access to adjacent
land uses. Principal arterial streets are typically constructed to accommodate five lanes of
traffic.
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Minor arterial streets convey traffic onto principal arterials from collector and local streets.
They place slightly more emphasis on land access and offer a lower level of mobility than
principal arterials. Minor arterial streets are typically constructed to accommodate four
lanes of traffic.
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Residential and Non-residential Collector arterials constructed to accommodate three or
four lanes of traffic but striped to accommodate three lanes of traffic. Additional lanes
would be provided if and when traffic flows require such striping for efficient traffic flow.
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TR-7– The City shall encourage King and Pierce Counties to develop and implement a similar
system of arterial designations within Auburn’s potential annexation area.
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TR-9– The City shall designate new arterials to serve developing areas before such
development. Such arterials shall be spaced in compliance with good transportation network
planning principles.
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Objective 16.7 – To finance the new streets and transportation systems necessary to serve new
development without adversely affecting the fiscal capacity of the City to finance transportation
needs.
Policies
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TR-21– The City shall continue to require developers of new developments to construct
transportation systems that serve their developments. The City shall also explore ways for new
developments to encourage vanpooling, carpooling, public transit use and other alternatives to
single-occupancy vehicle (SOV) travel.
Pedestrian System
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Objective 16.12 – To recognize pedestrian movement as a basic means of circulation and to ensure
adequate accommodation of pedestrian needs in all transportation policies and facilities.
Policies
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TR-43– Sidewalks/trails and other walking facilities should be extended throughout the City to
allow for more convenient and efficient pedestrian movement.
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TR-44– City street standards shall generally provide for sidewalks on both sides of the street.
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TR-45– The City shall encourage sub-dividers of new plats to include pedestrian trails in new
plats which link the development to nearby activity centers such as schools, parks and
neighborhood shopping.
Environmental Impacts
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Objective 16.15– Minimize the environmental of all new road construction and road
improvements.
Policies
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TR-61– The City shall consider the impact of road construction on the environment and natural
resources (particularly on sensitive areas, wildlife habitats and water quality) as part of its
environmental review process.
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TR-62– Stormwater runoff from roads is a major cause of water quality degradation. All new
road construction will employ the Best Management Practices available to promote water
quality compliance consistent with the City Stormwater Quality Manual.
Environmental Element
Goal 18 – Environment and Natural Resources
To maintain and promote a safe and healthy environment and preserve the quality of life and to protect
the areas most unique sensitive and productive natural resources. To encourage natural resource
industries within the City to operate in a manner, which enhances, rather than detracts from, the earlier
development of the City.
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Objective 18.1 – To continue to enhance and maintain the quality of surface water, ground water
and shoreline resources in the City and region.
Policies
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EN-3– The City shall seek to minimize degradation to surface water quality and aquatic habitat
of creeks, streams, rivers, ponds, lakes and other water bodies; to preserve and enhance the
suitability of such water bodies for contact recreation and fishing and to preserve and enhance
the aesthetic qualities of such waters by requiring the use of the current Best Management
Practices for control of stormwater and non-point runoff.
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EN-4–The City will regulate any stormwater discharges to creeks, streams, rivers, ponds,
lakes and other water bodies with the goal of no degradation of the water quality or habitat of
the receiving waters and, where feasible, seek opportunity to enhance the water quality and
habitat of receiving waters.
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EN-6– Where possible, streams and riverbanks shall be kept in a natural condition and
degraded stream banks shall be enhanced or restored.
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EN-10– The City’s design standards shall ensure that post-development peak stormwater
runoff does not exceed the pre-development rates.
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EN-13– The City shall consider the impact of new development on water quality as part of the
environmental review process and require any appropriate mitigation measures. Impacts on
fish resources shall be a priority concern on such reviews.
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EN-14– The City shall require the use of Best Management Practices to enhance and protect
water quality as dictated by the City’s design and construction standards and the Washington
State Department of Ecology Stormwater Management Manual for the Puget Sound Basin.
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EN-16– The City recognizes the value and efficiency of utilizing existing natural systems (e.g.
wetlands) for stormwater conveyance and storage; however, these natural systems can be
severely impacted or destroyed by the uncontrolled release of contaminated stormwater. Prior
to utilizing natural systems for storm drainage purposes, the City should carefully consider the
potential for adverse impacts to the environmental review process. Important natural systems
should not be used for storm drainage storage or conveyance unless it can be demonstrated that
adverse impacts can be adequately mitigated to a less than significant level.
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EN-17– The City recognizes that stormwater treatment facilities do not function efficiently
unless maintained. The City shall strive to ensure that public and private stormwater collection
detention and treatment systems are properly maintained and functioning as designed.
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Objective 18.2 – To continue to enhance and maintain the quality of air resources in the City and
region.
Policies
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EN-18– The City shall seek to secure and maintain such levels of air quality as will protect
human health, prevent injury to plant an animal life, prevent injury to property, foster the
comfort and convenience of area inhabitants and facilitate the enjoyment of the natural
attractions of the area.
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Objective 18.3– To continue to enhance and maintain the quality of land, wildlife and the
vegetative resources in the City and region.
Policies
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EN-23– The City shall seek to protect any unique, rare or endangered species of plants and
animals in the City by preventing the indiscriminate and unnecessary removal of trees and
ground cover by promoting the design and development of landscaped areas, which provide
food and cover for wildlife and by protecting and enhancing the quality of aquatic habitat.
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EN-24– The City shall consider the impacts of new development on the quality of land, known
or suspected fish or wildlife habitats and vegetative resources as part of its environmental
review process and require any appropriate mitigation measures. Such mitigation may involve
the retention of significant habitats and the use of native landscape vegetation.
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Objective 18.4 – To continue to enhance and maintain the quality of important wetland resources in
the city and region.
Policies
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EN-25– The City recognizes the important biological and hydrological roles that wetlands play
in providing plant and animal habitat, protecting water quality, reducing the need for man-made
flood and storm drainage systems, maintaining water quality, and in providing recreational.
Open space, educational and cultural opportunities. The City will consider these roles and
functions in all new development.
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EN-26– The City recognizes that wetlands provide varying degrees of biological and
hydrological functions and values to the community depending on the size, complexity and
location of the individual system, and that the overall degree of functions and values should be
considered when reviewing proposals which impact wetlands. In a similar manner, the levels
of protection afforded to a wetland shall be consistent with its existing function and values.
The City shall continue to promote policies and practices of enhancing the wetlands that are
hydraulically connected to the river systems to improve fish resources and aquatic habitat.
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EN-27– The City shall consider the impacts of new development on the quality of wetland
resources as part of its environmental review process and shall require appropriate mitigation
and monitoring measures of important wetland areas. Such mitigation may involve
conservation, enhancement, restoration, or replacement of important wetlands and provisions
for appropriate buffering. The goal of the mitigation should be no net loss of wetlands
functions and values. A permanent deed restriction shall be placed on any wetlands created or
enhanced to ensure that they are preserved in perpetuity.
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EN-28– Wetlands which are associated with a river or stream, or provide significant plant and
animal habitat opportunities are recognized by the City as the most important wetland systems,
and shall receive the highest degree of protection and mitigation through conservation,
enhancement or relocation measures. Wetlands which are limited in size are isolated from
major hydrological systems or provide limited hydrological or plant and animal habitat
opportunities may be considered by the City for development and displacement in conjunction
with appropriate mitigation.
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Objective 18.5 – To recognize the aesthetic, environmental and use benefits of vegetation and to
promote its retention and propagation.
Policies
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EN-31– The City shall encourage use of native vegetation as an integral part of public and
private development plans.
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EN-32– The City shall discourage unnecessary disturbance of natural vegetation in new
development.
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Objective 19.2 – To ensure the development is properly located and constructed with respect to
limitations of underlying soils and subsurface drainage.
Policies
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EN-66– The City shall seek to ensure that the land not be developed or otherwise modified in a
manner which will result in or significantly increase the potential for slope slippage, landslide,
subsidence or substantial soil erosion. The City’s development standards shall dictate the use
of Best Management Practices to minimize the potential for these problems.
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EN-68– The City shall consider the impacts of new development on hazards associated with
soils and subsurface drainage as part of its environmental review process and require any
appropriate mitigation measures.
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EN-72– The City will require that a geotechnical report prepared by professional engineer
licensed by the State of Washington with expertise in geotechnical engineering be submitted for
all significant activities proposed within Class 1 and Class 3 landslide hazard areas. The City
shall develop administrative guidelines, which identify the procedures and information required
for the geotechnical reports.
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EN-73– New developments within Class 1 and Class 3 landslide hazard areas shall be
designated and located to minimize site disturbance and removal of vegetation and to maintain
the natural topographic character of the site. Clustering of structures, minimizing building
footprints and maintaining trees and other natural vegetation shall be considered.
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Protection of Endangered Species
Policies
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EN-84– The City shall seek to minimize surface water quality and aquatic habitat degradation
of creeks, streams, rivers, ponds, lakes and other water bodies to preserve and enhance the
suitability of such water bodies as habitat for restoration of endangered species.
Historic Preservation Element
Goal 20 – Historic Preservation
To maintain and preserver and enhance the City’s historic cultural and archeological resources and to
provide a sense of local identity and history to the visitors and residents of the community.
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Objective 20.1 – To enhance and maintain the quality of historic resources in the region.
Policies
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HP-1– The City shall encourage the protection, preservation, recovery and rehabilitation of
significant archeological resources and historical sites.
Parks, Recreation and Open Space Element
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Objective 21.1 – To provide a broad and comprehensive park system that meets the recreational
needs of all segments of the community.
Policies
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PR-2– New development shall contribute to the development of new parks at a level
commensurate with their share of new facility needs as established by the Parks and Recreation
Plan. If the City determines that the development does not include an acceptable park site, the
City shall require the payment of cash in lieu of land.
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PR-4– The city shall evaluate the impacts of new development on park and recreation
resources through the SEPA environmental review process and shall take appropriate steps to
mitigate significant adverse impacts.
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Objective 21.2 – To provide for an adequate and diverse supply of open spaces. Open space is
typically defined as land that will remain undeveloped or only slightly developed (a trail for
instance) and will be managed to protect and enhance the natural environment.
Policies
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PR-7– The City shall seek to retain as open space those areas having a unique combination of
open space values, including: separation or buffering between incompatible land uses; visual
delineation of the City or a distinct area or neighborhood of the City; unusually productive
wildlife habitat; wetlands; floodwater or stormwater storage; stormwater purification;
recreational value; historic or cultural value; aesthetic value; and educational value.
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PR-8– The City shall seek to attain as open space areas where the soils have been identified as
having severe or very severe erosion potential, landslide hazard or seismic hazard.
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PR-12– Development within areas designated for open space uses shall, in general, be non-
intensive in character. Development shall be designed and sited in a manner that minimizes or
mitigates disruption of the most important open space values of the site. Appropriate uses
within designated open space areas may include, but not necessarily be limited to: parks and
other recreational facilities; agriculture; stormwater storage; and watershed. It is recognized
that designating private property for open space uses does not establish or promote any public
access rights to such property.
The purpose of the PUD district is:
“… to offer enhanced flexibility to develop a site through innovative and
alternative development standards. A PUD district also allows for a greater
range of residential development scenarios, provides for internal transfers of
density, and may result in more dwelling units than may be realized by using the
existing development standards. In exchange for this enhanced flexibility, the
city will require the PUD to result in a significantly higher quality development,
generate more public benefit and be a more sensitive proposal than would have
been the case with the use of standard zoning or subdivision procedures.
In order for a PUD to be approved it will be the applicant’s responsibility to
demonstrate, to the city’s satisfaction, that the proposed PUD achieves or is
consistent with the following desired public benefits and expectations in whole or
in part”
a.Preservation of Natural Amenities: Preservation of desirable site characteristics such as open
spaces and the protection of sensitive environmental features including steeps lopes, mature
trees, rivers, creeks, wetlands, lakes and scenic views.
b.Pedestrian Oriented Communities: Use of traffic management and design techniques to
reduce traffic congestion and increase the potential use of alternative modes of travel such as
mass transit, pedestrian and bicycle traffic.
c.Land Use Efficiencies: Provide efficient and effective use of land, open space and public
facilities that result in lower development cost and make housing more affordable.
d.Improved Transitional Areas: Improve the sensitive development of transitional areas located
between different land uses, environmentally sensitive areas, and along significant corridors
within the city.
e.Implementation of the Comprehensive Plan: Provide development that is consistent with the
goals and policies of the Comprehensive plan. PUD’s may also allow for a small amount of
development from other Comprehensive Plan designations if determined to be appropriate for
the PUD and its surroundings.
f.Enhanced Design Features: Provide building and structural designs that complement
surrounding land uses and their environment. Design standards should reflect quality site
planning, landscaping and building architecture.
g.Creation of Public Amenities: Enhance parks and open spaces consistent with the
Comprehensive Park Plan and non-motorized plan.
h.Affordable Housing: Provide affordable housing options in accordance with the targets
established by King County Countywide Planning Policies and Auburn’s Comprehensive
Plan.
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