HomeMy WebLinkAbout1883RESOLUTION NO. / "j·'tf.:J
A RESOLUTION of the City Council of the
City of Kent, Washington, relating to a revision of
the Kent Comprehensive Plan, and declaring an
emergency for the adoption of a comprehensive
plan amendment. CPA-2014-1 and CPZ-2014-1.
RECITALS
A. One of the City Council's strategic goals is to attain fiscal
sustainability.
B. Another strategic goal of the City Council is to create
neighborhood urban centers.
C. The City's Riverbend Golf Complex has been facing serious
financial challenges throughout its history, and the City Council is desirous
of finding a long-term solution to this problem.
D. The potential development of the Par 3 golf course is seen by
the Council as a potential solution to the long-term viability of the overall
Riverbend Golf Complex. To ready the site for development, certain plan
and zoning amendments need to take place.
E. The Growth Management Act (GMA) requires that the City
establish procedures governing amendments to the comprehensive plan
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that limit amendments to once each year unless certain circumstances
exist. RCW 36.70A.130(2)(b). The City has established a procedure for
amending the comprehensive plan in Chapter 12.02 of the Kent City Code
(KCC) that permits amendments in addition to the standard annual update
if any emergency exists. An emergency is defined as an issue of
community wide significance that promotes the public health, safety, and
general welfare of the City of Kent. KCC 12.02.010(A).
F. On April 14, 2014, the Economic and Community
Development Committee moved to request that staff move forward with
the entitlement process for the Par 3 golf course as depicted in Exhibit 1,
attached and incorporated by this reference.
G. The City Council finds that consideration of proposed
amendments to the comprehensive plan through revision of the Par 3
comprehensive plan and zoning designations is 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:
RESOLUTION
SECTION 1. -Recitals. The foregoing recitals are incorporated by
this reference.
SECTION 2. -Emerqencv. The revision of the comprehensive plan
designation for the Par 3 golf course 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
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KCC 12.02.010(A) of the Kent City Code (KCC). The City Council,
therefore, declares that an emergency exists and authorizes staff and the
Land Use & Planning Board to process this amendment to the
comprehensive plan outside the annual amendment process described in
KCC 12.02.030.
SECTION 3. -Severabilitv. If any section, subsection, paragraph,
sentence, clause or phrase of this resolution is declared unconstitutional or
invalid for any reason, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this resolution.
SECTION 4. -Effective Date. This resolution shall take effect and
be in force immediately upon its passage.
PASSED at a regular open public meeting by the City Council of the
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city of Kent, Washington, this h ----day of /. /::Z.-~~1 , 2014 .
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CONCURRED in by the Mayor of the city of Kent this 6 --day of
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ATTEST:
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URt~ik~FJ{t):PATRICK,
ACTING CITY ATTORNEY
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of Resolution No.
/?l)t3 passed by the City Council of the city of Kent, Washington, the
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