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WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL AGENDA BILL
JUN 1 6 1993
WHATCOMCOUNN
COUNCIL
SUBJECT.•
NO. 93 -234
Resolution to Set Date for Public Hearing to Declare Certain County -owned Property
Surplus Property pursuant to RCW 36.34.020.
ATTACHMENTS.
The Resolution and correspondence from Parks
Public Hearing Needed? Yes /_ f No/
SUMMARY STATEMENT:
This Resolution is to surplus a portion of Euclid Park Property (North Lake Whatcom) and
sell this park property to the City of Bellingham for $275,000 with the conditions that
the use of the land must be limited to a park, open space or watershed reserve in perpetuity.
Proceeds from the purchase will be used to purchase the County's share of the Chuckanut
Mountain acquisition.
RECOMMENDED ACTION.•
Recommend passage.
COMMITTEE ACTION (including dates):
COUNCIL ACTION (including dates):
6/22/93: Approved unanimously
Related File Numbers: Ordinance or Resolution Number. Res 93- 037
1 INTRODUCED BY: Consent
2 PROPOSED BY: Executive
3 DATE INTRODUCED: 6/22/93
4 RESOLUTION NO. 93 -037
5 RESOLUTION IN THE MATTER OF SETTING A DATE FOR PUBLIC
6 HEARING FOR DECLARING CERTAIN COUNTY -OWNED PROPERTY
7 SURPLUS PROPERTY PURSUANT TO RCW 36.34.020
8 WHEREAS, the County -owned property described herein, located in the City of
9 Bellingham, County of Whatcom, State of Washington, known as a portion of Euclid Park
10 Property (North Lake Whatcom), more particularly described as follows:
11 Parcel A: 380327 - 323063
12 All of Government Lot 2, Section 27, Township 38 North, Range 3 East of W.M.,
13 EXCEPT the east 968.5 feet thereof; ALSO Beginning at a point 968.5 feet west
14 of the initial point fixes and described as follows:
15 A stake set in the ground at the intersection of the east line of the southwest
16 quarter of the southeast quarter of the aforesaid Section 27, and the north line of
�7 Geneva Road No. 131, Whatcom County, Washington; thence north following the
18 west line of the Long Tract to the south line of said Government Lot 2; thence
19 west along the south line of Lot 2; 352.5 feet, more or less, to a stake at the
20 southwest corner of said Lot 2; thence south along the center line of the aforesaid
21 Section 27, to the south quarter corner thereof; EXCEPT a 30 foot strip to the
22 County off a portion of this line as part of Larson Road; thence east along the
23 south line of said Section to intersect the west line of the aforesaid Geneva Road;
24 thence northeasterly along the northwesterly line of said road to a point directly
25 east of the point of beginning; thence west 400 feet, more or less, to the point of
26 beginning.
27 Parcel E: 380334 - 312536
28 All that portion of the northwest quarter of the northeast quarter of Section 34,
29 Township 38 North, Range 3 East of W.M., which lies north and west of the
30 County Road known as the Geneva Road, EXCEPT that part conveyed to
31 Whatcom County by deed recorded in Volume 87 of deeds, page 544, records of
32 Whatcom County, Washington.
33 Parcel I: 380327 - 347143
34 Beginning at a point 968.5 feet west and 365 feet north of the intersection of the
35 east line of the southwest quarter of the southeast quarter of Section 27, Township
36 38 North, Range 3 East of W.M., and the north line of Geneva Road, being
1 County Road No. 131; and running thence north 51 -1/20 east 164 feet to a point;
2 thence north 24 -1/2° east 153 -1/2 feet to a point; thence north 19° west to the
3 Government meander line; thence along said Government meander line
4 southwesterly to a point due north of the point of beginning of this description;
5 thence south to the point of beginning.
6 Beginning at a point 776.5 feet west of the initial point fixed and described as
7 follows:
8 A stake in the ground at the intersection of the east line of the southwest quarter
9 of the southeast quarter of Section 27, Township 38 North, Range 3 east of W.M.,
10 and the north line of Geneva Road, being County Road No. 131; thence west 192
11 feet to the east line of the land owned by Valentine V. Lowe; thence north along
12 said Valentine V. Lowe's east line 365 feet, more or less, to the shore of Lake
13 Whatcom, at low water mark; thence easterly following the meanderings of the
14 said shore line of said lake to a point on Lake Whatcom, marked by a post and
15 445 feet due north of the place of beginning; thence south 445 feet, more or less,
16 to place of beginning.
17 Lots 15 and 16, Block 9, Lake Whatcom Shorelands, as shown upon the official
18 map of said shoreland, on file in the office of the Commissioner of Public Lands
19 at Olympia, Washington.
20 is now and has been property of Whatcom County; and
21 WHEREAS, the County Executive has determined that it is in the best interest of the
22 County and the people thereof to sell a portion of said park property;
23 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of Whatcom County,
24 Washington, that a public hearing on the matter of declaring said portions of Euclid Park
25 Property (North Lake Whatcom) be held on the 13th day of July , 1993 ,
26 at 7:30 p.m. or as soon thereafter as it is possible, in the Whatcom County Council Chambers,
27 Whatcom County Courthouse Annex, 1000 N. Forest Street, Bellingham, Washington, for the
28 purpose of admitting testimony for and against the selling of said portion of Euclid Park Property.
29 PASSED this 22 day of June '1993
30 ATTEST: WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL
31 /, WHATCOM COUNTY, WASHINGTON
32 Council CFe-r-
33 APPROVED AS TO FORM:
34 J-,4. Margaret 91. Laidlaw, Council Chair
35 Civil Deputy Prosecuting Attorney