HomeMy WebLinkAboutord1998-001WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL AGENDA BILL
NO. 97- i M
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Date
Date Received in Council Office:
Agenda date
Assigned to:
ginator: Sylvia Goodwin
Division Head: Sylvia Goodwin
Ca
12/5/97
12/16/97
cal
Dept. Head: Michael Knapp
Prosecutor.
Purchasing/Budget:
Executive:
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SUBJECT. File Reference: 10 -97.ZT An Ordinance adopting Short Term Planning Area Overlay Maps to implement
the Whatcom County Comprehensive Plan.
ATTACHMENTS: Proposed Ordinance with Exhibits A, B, and C
Agency Report with attached Staff Reports
Planning Commission Minutes from October 9 Public Hearing
Draft Planning Commission minutes from December 4 meeting
SUMMARYSTATEMENT.
Please complete sections of box as appropriate & explain the item below.
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Should Clerk schedule a hearing? NO/ / YES ! / Requested date:
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Is it (or will it be) within budget? YES /X / NO / / (Please explain below) n/a
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request is to adopt an ordinance adopting Short Term Planning Area Overlay Maps to implement the Whatcom County
Comprehensive Plan.
ORIGINATOR'S RECOMMENDED ACTION: The Director of Planning and Development Services recommends
Council adopt the proposed ordinance.
COMMITTEE ACTION TAKEN:
COUNCIL ACTION TAKEN.•
1997 - 1708 1219/97: Introduced
1/13/98: Amended & Adopted 6 -1, Hoag opposed. Ord. #98-
001
Related File Numbers: #10-9 7.
Ordinance or Resolution Number (this item only):
File RetlO -972N! SPONSORED BY: Consent
PROPOSED BY: Council
INTRODUCTION DATE: 12/9/97
1 ORDINANCE NO. 98 -001
2 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE ADOPTING ZONING OVERLAY MAPS TO IMPLEMENT
3 THE SHORT TERM PLANNING AREAS DESIGNATED IN THE OFFICIAL WHATCOM
4 COUNTY COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
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6 WHEREAS, the 1990 State Growth Management Act as amended requires the County
7 to adopt a comprehensive plan and development regulations that are consistent with and
8 implement the comprehensive plan on or before July 1, 1994, with a six -month extension on the
9 adoption of development regulations allowed; and
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11 WHEREAS, Whatcom County adopted a Comprehensive Plan on May 20, 1997
12 following a lengthy public process; and
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14 WHEREAS, in order.to find compliance with the Growth Management Act, amendments
15 to the Official Whatcom County Zoning Map, implementing new land use direction proposed in
16 the Comprehensive Plan are necessary; and
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18 WHEREAS, Whatcom County adopted interim Short Term Planning Area zoning overlay
19 maps under Emergency Ordinance No. 97 -025 which became law on May 22, 1997, and
20 Interim Ordinance 97 -038, which became effective July 15, 1997; and
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22 WHEREAS, The Whatcom County Council has forwarded the Short Term Planning Area
23 Overlay Maps to the Whatcom County Planning Commission to hold a public hearing and any
24 necessary work sessions and to return a recommendation back to the County Council in time to
25 adopt permanent regulations; and
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27 WHEREAS, SEPA requirements have been met by the Environmental Impact
28 Statements and associated documentation prepared in conjunction with adopting the
29 Comprehensive Plan; and
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31 WHEREAS, the Planning Commission conducted a public hearing on September 9,
32 1997, considered all public input, adopted findings, and recommended approval of permanent
33 Short Term Planning Areas at their December 4, 1997 meeting; and
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35 WHEREAS, Interim Ordinance 97 -038 will expire on January 15, 1998; and
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37 WHEREAS, the County is not prepared to adopt permanent Short Term Planning Area
38 maps at this time, and will require up to 60 days for additional analysis and public review to
39 occur; and
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WHEREAS, in order to assure continued compliance with the Growth Management Act,
continuation of the Short Term Planning Area maps is necessary; and
WHEREAS, based on the above findings, the Whatcom County Council declares that an
emergency ordinance is necessary for preservation of the public peace, health, safety and.
welfare.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the Whatcom County Council that:
Section 1. That in order to preserve the integrity of the process and directives
mandated by the Growth Management Act and pursuant to RCW 36.70A.040, the Short Term
Planning Areas as presented in Exhibit A, attached, the adopted Comprehensive Plan
Appendix E, Map #s 28 -13, 28 -C, 28 -D, 28 -F, 28 -G, Exhibit B, Revised Map #28 -A, and Exhibit
C, Revised Map #28 -H be adopted on an emergency basis for sixty days from adoption of this
Ordinance or until the effective date of an Ordinance adopting these Short Term Planning Areas
on a permanent basis.
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 13 day of January , 1998.
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as to form:
aren Frakes, Civil Deputy Prosecutor
WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL
WASHINGTON
WX-P-P�rovedl () Denied
Pete Kremen, Executive
Date:
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