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SUBJECT: Ordinance adopting changes to the Official Whatcom County Zoning Ordinance, 20.42.150 to allow public safety and road
maintenance facilities as a conditional use in the Rural Forestry zone district
ATTACHMENTS:
(I) Proposed Ordinance
(1) Agency Report with Attached Tait Changes
(3) Staff Report
Planning Commission Minutes
SEPA review required? ( x ) Yes ( ) NO
SEPA review completed? ( x ) Yes ( ) NO
Should Clerk schedule a hearing? ( ) Yes ( xt ) NO
Requested Date:
IThe Council must hold a hearing ifthey wan/ m change the Planning
Commission's recommendation (WCC2a90.054
SUMMARY STATEMENT. The request is to amend the text of Thle 20 to allow
Distribution Request
public uses including a Washington State Department of Transportation highway
maintenance facility within the Rural Forestry zoning district as a conditional
Indicate those who should receive a copy after Council action.
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List s�ifre name` to the right.
Staff recommends the Council consider adoption of the text recommended by the
Planning Commission or the similar text proposed for the Ag zone In order to be
consistent in the zoning code. If the Planning Commission text is adopted, staff
recommends revision of the text in the Agricultural zoning text amendment
currently under consideration to make the two districts consistent. (File 4ZON99-
00002).
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SPONSORED BY: Consent
PROPOSED BY: Planning and Development Services
INTRODUCTION DATE: 11/14/00
ORDINANCE NO. 2000 -064
AMENDING THE OFFICIAL WHATCOM COUNTY ZONING ORDINANCE, TITLE 20, SECTION
20.42.150 TO ALLOW PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY FACILITIES AND ROAD MAINTENANCE
FACILITIES WITHIN THE RURAL FORESTRY ZONING CLASSIFICATION AS A CONDITIONAL
USE.
WHEREAS, the Washington State Department of Transportation submitted a request for
a text amendment to facilitate relocation of the WSDOT facility at Maple Falls to a more centralized
and more efficient operation for the eastern part of the county, and
WHEREAS, the request is similar and should be consistent with proposed text amendments
in Chapter 20.40, Agriculture district, to replace the existing 20.40.151 text with the following
Conditional Use text: "Public facilities for emergency related health and safety purposes, such as
fire halls and Washington State Department of Transportation satellite road safety facilities ", and
WHEREAS, The Deputy SEPA Official for Whatcom County issued a Determination of Non -
significance on August 14, 2000; and
WHEREAS, Pursuant to RCW 36.70.590, legal notice was published in the Bellingham
Herald on September 15, 2000; and
WHEREAS, The Planning Commission held public a hearing on the proposed amendment
on September 28, 2000, and considered all testimony; and
WHEREAS, The Planning Commission recommended approval of the modified text
amendments on September 28, 2000; and
WHEREAS, THE County Council proposed a minor amendment to the text proposed by the
Planning Commission and held an additional public hearing on December 12, 2001; and
WHEREAS, the County Council finds this text amendment in the best interest of the public
health, safety and welfare, based on the following findings and conclusions:
FINDINGS
1. The request is for a text amendment to Chapter 20.42 (Rural Forestry) of the Official
Whatcom County Zoning Ordinance, to permit public uses associated with governmental
buildings; public works maintenance yards or facilities such as shops and storage buildings.
2. There is, at present, no allowance made for public facilities etc. in the text of Title 20.42,
(Rural Forestry) to accommodate the proposed WS DOT highway maintenance facility.
3. The WS DOT Maple Falls site is not centrally located or conducive to expansion.
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4. There is a property exchange under consideration between WS DOT and Barter /Marr
Logging, to allow WS DOT the opportunity to acquire larger acreage in a more central and
strategic location to the rural state highways of eastern Whatcom County.
5. The text amendment to the Rural Forestry District is a prerequisite for the property
exchange for the relocation of the existing maintenance facility to the larger Valley Highway
site.
6. The goals and policies of GMA and the Whatcom County Comprehensive Plan call for
coordination of transportation plans between the state, city and county comprehensive
plans, together with making safety and mobility the primary considerations in ranking
transportation improvements.
7. As the Agriculture and Rural Forest designations are both natural resource based lands
under the GMA the permitted uses should parallel one another.
8. It is the goal of Whatcom County to preserve commercial timber in this zone designation
and to allow only those non - forest uses that are oriented towards health and safety.
9. Proposed new wording in Chapter 20.40, Agriculture District, addresses the required text
amendment that can be used also in Chapter 20.42, Rural Forest District as a Conditional
Use.
CONCLUSIONS
1. The amendment conforms to the Whatcom County Comprehensive Plan.
2. The amendments would be in the public interest.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Whatcom County Council that:
Section 1.
The Official Whatcom County
Zoning Ordinance
are hereby amended as shown in
Exhibit 1.
Section 2. Adjudication of invalidity of any of the sections, clauses, or provisions of this Ordinance
shall not affect or impair the validity of the Ordinance as a whole or any part thereof other than the
part so declared to be invalid.
ADOPTED this 12 day of December 2001.
AT/TEST:
#*-+Dana Brown - Davis,
Clerk of the Council
C VED as to for
ivil Deputy Prosecutor
WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL
WWHHAAATTCOM COUNTY, WASHINGTON
Marlene Dawson, Council Chair
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pproved () Denied
e Kremen, Executive
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Date: /U_DL? "00
EXHIBIT 1
Planning Commission Recommended Amendment to Rural Forestry District Text
20.42.150 Conditional Uses.
.165 Public
facilities for emergency-
related health and
safety purposes such as
firehalls and Washington State
Department of Transportation
satellite road
safety facilities
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