HomeMy WebLinkAbout1513RESOLUTION NO. I s I 3
A RESOLUTION of the City Council of the City
of Kent, Washington, regarding a comprehensive plan
amendment to amend the Land Use Element relating to
mixed use development, and further declaring an emergency
for a comprehensive plan amendment pursuant to Chapter
12.02 of the Kent City Code.
WHEREAS, the Kent Comprehensive Plan designates areas for mixed use
development, meaning development that combines commercial and residential uses, and
outlines goals and policies for these areas; and
WHEREAS, after a public hearing before the Land Use and Planning Board,
the Kent City Council, on May 7, 1997, adopted Ordinances No. 3345 and 3346 amending
the zoning code to allow mixed use development in certain areas, amending development
regulations, and establishing a mixed use overlay; and
WHEREAS, on July 21, 1998, the Mayor asked the City Council to request
that the Land Use and Planning Board consider amending the provisions of the zoning code
with regard to mixed uses and stand-alone residential development in the General
Commercial zone, and that the City Council concurred with this request; and
WHEREAS, on July 23, 1998 the Mayor asked the Land Use and Planning
Board to review regulations pertaining to stand-alone residential development; and
WHEREAS, at a workshop meeting on August 10, 1998, the Land Use and
Planning Board agreed to consider amendments to the mixed use zoning ordinance at a
public hearing in September; and
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WHEREAS, it may be necessary to amend the Comprehensive Plan Land
Use Plan Map and goals and policies in order to assure consistency between the
comprehensive plan and any proposed amendments to the zoning code for mixed use; and
WHEREAS, it is in the interest as expressed by the Mayor, City Council,
and Land Use and Planning Board to consider proposed amendments to the comprehensive
plan and zoning code in a timely manner with regard to mixed use development in the
General Commercial; NOW THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENT, WASHINGTON DOES
HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section I. The requirement under Growth Management that zoning and land
use maps and policies be consistent with one another, justifies that any comprehensive plan
amendment for the mixed use areas be processed concurrently with zoning amendments,
and that concurrent consideration meets the need for the definition of an "emergency" as
outlined in section 12.02.035 of the Kent City Code.
Section 2. The City therefore declares an emergency to pursue a
comprehensive plan amendment for the mixed use area designations and goals and policies
in the comprehensive plan, and further declares that any comprehensive plan amendments
be considered by the Land Use and Planning Board and City Council at the same time any
proposed mixed use zoning amendments are considered.
PAS SED at a regular open public meeting by the City Council of the City of
Kent, Washington, this / day of ~~y~, 1998. ,
CONCURRED in by the Mayor of the City of Kent this ::L. day of
-4;;~,1998.
ATTEST:
APPROVED AS TO
I, BRENDA JACOBER, City Clerk of the City of Kent, Washington, certify
that the attached copy of Resolution No. I .5'" I 3 is a true and correct copy of the
original resolution adopted on the I~ day of #~, 1998, as that
resolution appears on the Minute Book of the City.
DATED this r··.( day of 4 fid_"C/L..-, 1998.
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