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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1506RESOLUTIONNO. !5o0 A RESOLUTION of the City Council of Kent, Washington, declaring an emergency to pursue an amendment to the Capital Facilities Element of the Kent Comprehensive Plan, incorporating the Capital Facilities Plans of the Kent and Federal Way School Districts for 1998. WHEREAS, the City of Kent adopted a school impact fee program as authorized by the Growth Management Act and RCW 82.02.050; and WHEREAS, the Growth Management Act and Chapter 12.02 ofthe Kent City Code authorize the City to amend its Comprehensive Plan only once per calendar year, except in the case of an emergency and that an emergency is defined as an issue of community wide significance that promotes the public health, safety, and general welfare; and WHEREAS, Chapter 12.13.070 of the Kent City Code requires that the Capital Facilities Plans of the Kent and Federal Way School Districts be submitted to the City of Kent on an annual basis for City Council review, and that such review shall occur in conjunction with any update of the Capital Facilities Plan element of the City's Comprehensive Plan; and WHEREAS, on February 6, 1998, the Kent City Council adopted its comprehensive plan amendments for 1998 prior to its review of the Capital Facilities Plans 1 of the Kent and Federal Way School Districts; and WHEREAS, adoption of the Kent and Federal Way School Districts Capital Facilities Plans is a condition precedent to continued collection of impact fees on behalf of the districts by the City of Kent; and WHEREAS, the City must now amend the Capital Facilities element of the City's Comprehensive Plan in order to adopt the Capital Facilities Plans of the Kent and Federal Way School Districts; and WHEREAS, the City Council, Public Works and Planning Committee considered this issue at its regularly scheduled meeting on February 9, 1998, and voted to submit this matter to the Land Use and Planning Board for consideration of an emergency Comprehensive Plan Amendment for the adoption of the Capital Facilities Plans of the Kent and Federal Way School Districts as an element of the Capital Facilities Plan element of the Kent Comprehensive Plan; NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENT, WASHINGTON, DOES HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That adoption of the Capital Facilities Plans ofthe Kent and Federal Way School Districts as an element of the Capital Facilities Plan of the City of Kent Comprehensive Plan constitutes an issue of community-wide significance that promotes the public health, safety, and general welfare in accordance with the definition of an emergency as set forth in Chapter 12.02 ofthe Kent City Code. SECTION 2. The City Council therefore declares that an emergency exists and authorizes the Land Use and Planning Board to consider a Comprehensive Plan Amendment for the adoption of the Capital Facilities Plan of the Kent and Federal Way 2 School Districts as an element of the Capital Facilities Plan element of the Kent Comprehensive Plan. Passed at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Kent, Washington this _12_ day of :-ie:b~ , 1998. Concurred in by the Mayor of the City of Kent, this ___12_ day of c :1:~ '1998. ATTEST: BRENDA JACOB APPROVED AS TO FORM: I hereby certifY that this is a true and correct copy of Resolution No. IS o & , passed by the City Council of the City of Kent, Washington, the __j_J__ day of ~ ,1998. P \LAW\RESOLUTI\COMPPLAN RES 3