HomeMy WebLinkAbout989RESOLUTION NO. 9.?9
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A RESOLUTION of the City of Kent,
washington, concerning the procedure for City
Council review of recommendations of the
Planning Commission for the Kent comprehensive
Plan.
WHEREAS, RCW 35A.63.060 directs every City to direct its
planning agency to prepare a comPrehensive plan for anticipating
and influencing the orderly and coordinated development of land
and building uses of the code city and its environs; and
WHEREAS, RCW 35A.63.070 sets forth specific requirements
for notice and public hearing by the planning agency concerning a
comprehensive plan, or successive parts thereof; and
WHEREAS, RCW 35A.63.071 and RCW 35A.63.072 provides for
transmission of comprehensive plan recommendations, and
consideration by the City's legislative body in public meeting of
those recommendations; and
WHEREAS, the City of Kent has established a Planning
Commission to conduct public hearings pursuant to Chapter 35A.63
RCW; and
WHEREAS, it is a disservice to the Planning Commission
and the members of the public who appear at Commission hearings
for the Council to accept and consider information not before the
Commission, and to conduct supplemental hearings; NOW THEREFORE,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF KENT, WASHINGTON, DOES
HEREBY RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Pursuant to RCW 35A.63.072, within sixty
days of receipt of recommendations for the Comprehensive Plan, the
City council will consider the recommendations at a public meeting.
Section 2. At the public meeting the Council will also
consider such other written submittals that are filed with the
City prior to the public meeting, concerning the recommendations
of the Planning Commission.
Section 3. Following the public meeting the Council
shall vote to approve, or to disapprove, or to modify and approve
as modified, the comprehensive plan. The council may also vote to
refer the comprehensive plan back to the Planning Commission for
further proceedings, in which case the council shall specify the
time within which the Planning Commission shall report back its
findings and recommendations on the matters referred to it.
Passed at a regular meeting of the City council of the
City of Kent washington this~ day of ~AeCtY 1983.
~ ConcHrred in by the Mayor of the City of Kent, this ~~
day of ~ , 1983.
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ATTEST:
~CLERK
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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P. 7 STEPDiJULIOICTYATTRNEY
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of
Resolution No. 999 , passed by the City counci 1 of the City of
Kent, washington, the 2/
5557-94A
day of /?14.1€-CN , 1983.
(SEAL)
MARIE J~ CLERK
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