HomeMy WebLinkAbout1450RESOLUTION NO.
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A RESOLUTION of the City Council of
Kent, Washington, declaring an emergency to
pursue an amendment to the City of Kent
Comprehensive Plan to adopt the Capital
Facilities Plans of School Districts within
city boundaries as a sub-element of the
City's Comprehensive Plan.
WHEREAS, the Washington State Growth Management Act
authorizes the adoption of school impact fees to address
identified impacts of development pursuant to RCW 82.02.050
through 82.02.100; and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Kent
considered a school impact fee program ordinance and took public
testimony at its meeting on November 21, 1995; and
WHEREAS, the City Council held a workshop to further
consider the proposed school impact fee program on December 5,
1995; and
WHEREAS, the City Council held a public hearing on the
proposed school impact fee program on December 19, 1995; and
WHEREAS, the City Council moved to adopt the school
impact fee program with an amendment to add a low income housing
exemption to the proposed ordinance on December 19, 1995; and
WHEREAS, the Washington Growth Management Act requires
that jurisdictions who adopt school impact fee programs adopt the
capital facilities plans of school districts who participate ln a
school impact fee program as a sub-element of the enacting
jurisdiction's comprehensive plan; and
WHEREAS, the Washington Growth Management Act and City of
Kent Ordinance #3237 authorize the City of Kent to amend its
comprehensive plan only once per calendar year, except in the
case of an emergency which is defined as "an issue of community-
wide significance that promotes the public health, safety and
general welfare;" and
WHEREAS, the City Council has considered the affects of the
absence of a school impact fee program upon the recently annexed
areas that were collecting school impact fees and has determined
that the potential lost impact fees and benefits to the taxpayers
of Kent constitute an issue of community-wide significance that
promotes the public health, safety and general welfare; NOW,
THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENT, WASHINGTON DOES
HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City Council of the City of Kent finds that
the absence of a school impact fee program within the "Meridian
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Annexation Area" and the potential lost impact fees and benefits
to the citizens of Kent constitutes an issue of community-wide
significance that promotes the public health, safety and general
welfare.
Section 2. The City Council of the City of Kent therefore
declares that an emergency exists necessitating the preparation
of a comprehensive plan amendment to adopt the School Districts'
Capital Facilities Plans as a sub-element of the City of Kent
Comprehensive Plan pursuant to RCW 82.02.050(4) and RCW
36. 70A. 070.
Section 3. That a comprehensive plan amendment be prepared
for the adoption of the capital facilities plans of School
Districts who wish to participate in the city's school impact fee
program.
Passed at a regular meeting of the City Council of the
City of Kent, Washington this ~ day of ~rz..-.u_? , 1996.
Concurred in by the Mayor of the:-c{ ty of Kent, this
day of , 1996.
JIM WHITE, MAYOR
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ATTEST:
BRENDA JACOBER, CITY CLERK
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of
Resolution No. /L/5{~' , passed by the City Council of the
of Kent, Washington, the c2' day of yarwLV':/ , 199b.
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./BRENDA JACOBER, ·CITY CLERK
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