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Agenda Bill Master Report
File Number: AB2025-579
File ID: AB2025-579 Version: 1 Status: Approved
File Created: 07/30/2025 Entered by: LClark@co.whatcom.wa.us
Department: Planning and File Type: Resolution
Development Services
Department
Assigned to: Council Planning and Development Committee Final Action: 09/23/2025
Agenda Date: 09/23/2025 Enactment #: RES 2025-030
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TITLE FOR AGENDA ITEM:
Resolution approving a revision to the corporate boundaries of the City of Lynden to include a portion
of Flynn Road right-of-way
SUMMARY STATEMENT OR LEGAL NOTICE LANGUAGE:
A revision to the corporate boundaries of the City of Lynden to include a portion of Flynn Road
Right -Of -Way, pursuant to RCW 35A.21.210 which was inadvertently omitted from Ordinance No.
24.1692.
HISTORY OF LEGISLATIVE FILE
Date: Acting Body: Action: Sent To:
09/23/2025 Council Planning and Development RECOMMENDED FOR
Committee APPROVAL
Aye: 3 Donovan, Elenbaas, and Scanlon
Nay: 0
09/23/2025 Council APPROVED
Aye: 6 Buchanan, Byrd, Elenbaas, Galloway, Scanlon, and Stremler
Nay: 0
emp Absent: 1 Donovan
Whatcom County Page t Printed on 9/24/2025
Agenda Bill Master Report Continued (AB2025-579)
Attachments: Memo, Proposed Resolution, Map
Whatcom County Page 2 Printed on 9/24/2025
Proposed by: Planning & Development Services
Introduction date: September 23rd, 2025
RESOLUTION NO.2025-030
RESOLUTION APPROVING A REVISION TO THE CORPORATE BOUNDARIES OF
THE CITY OF LYNDEN TO INCLUDE A PORTION OF FLYNN ROAD RIGHT-OF-
WAY
WHEREAS, the City of Lynden ("City") adopted Ordinance No. 24-1692 on October 7,
2024, annexing approximately 279 acres of the Southwest Urban Growth Area into the City; and
WHEREAS, a portion of the Flynn Road Right -of -Way ("Flynn Road ROW"), as legally
described in Exhibit A, was inadvertently omitted from the aforementioned annexation because it
was believed to have been incorporated into the City by Ordinance No. 1561 in 2018; and
WHEREAS, the Washington State Office of Financial Management and the Washington
State Department of Transportation requested that the City amend its annexation ordinance to
include the omitted Flynn Road ROW and clarify the corporate boundaries; and
WHEREAS, RCW 35A.21.210 authorizes a code city and the county in which it is located
to revise corporate boundaries to include or exclude a portion of a public street or road right-of-
way, with such revision becoming effective upon approval by both the city (by ordinance) and the
county (by ordinance or resolution); and
WHEREAS, the City of Lynden has adopted Ordinance No. 25-1710 to revise its corporate
boundaries to include the omitted portion of the Flynn Road ROW, thereby adjusting the City's
corporate boundary as legally described in Exhibit B and depicted in Exhibit C attached hereto;
and
WHEREAS, Whatcom County desires to approve this revision consistent with RCW
35A.21.210.
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NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Whatcom County Council approves
the revision of the corporate boundaries of the City of Lynden to include the portion of Flynn Road
Right -of -Way previously omitted, consistent with the boundaries described in City of Lynden
Ordinance No.25-1710.
APPROVED this 23rdday of September
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
approved by Greg Greenan 9/22/25- via email / LB
Greg Greenan, Civil Deputy Prosecutor
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WHATCOM COUNTY COUNCIL
WHATCOM COUNTY, WASHINGTON
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Kayle Galloway,
Council Chair
EXHIBIT A
TOGETHER WITH THAT PORTION OF COUNTY ROAD No. 79, COMMONLY KNOWN AS FLYNN
ROAD, DESCRIBED AS FOLLOWS:
BEGINNING AT THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF LOT A, STUIT FAMILY SHORT PLAT, RECORDED
UNDER AUDITOR'S FILE No. 2021-0803986; THENCE RUNNING
NORTHWESTERLY PERPENDICULAR TO THE SOUTH RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF SAID FLYNN ROAD
TO THE NORTHWESTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF SAID FLYNN ROAD; THENCE NORTHEASTERLY
ALONG SAID NORTHWESTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE TO THE WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF BAY
LYN ROAD; THENCE SOUTHERLY AND EASTERLY ALONG SAID WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE TO THE
SOUTHEASTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF SAID FLYNN ROAD; THENCE SOUTHWESTERLY ALONG
SAID SOUTHEASTERLY RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE TO THE POINT OF BEGINNING.
DESCRIPTION OF PROPOSED ANNEXATION AREA
ALL THAT PORTION OF THE NORTH HALF OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 25,
TOWNSHIP 40, RANGE 2 EAST OF W.M.,
TOGETHER WITH ALL THAT PORTION OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST
QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 25, LYING NORTHWESTERLY OF THE SOUTH RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF
FLYNN ROAD AND WESTERLY OF THE WEST RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF BAY LYN ROAD AND
SOUTHERLY OF THE SOUTH RIGHT-OF-WAY LINE OF BIRCH BAY LYNDEN ROAD;
EXCEPT THAT PORTION OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER AND THE
NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER LYING SOUTHERLY AND EASTERLY OF
THE EASTERLY AND SOUTHERLY BANK OF THE UNNAMED CREEK AND LYING SOUTHWESTERLY
OF THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED LINE:
COMMENCING AT THE POINT OF INTERSECTION OF THE SOUTHWESTERLY LINE OF
WHATCOM COUNTY ROAD NO. 51 AND THE NORTHWESTERLY LINE OF WHATCOM
COUNTY ROAD No. 79; THENCE SOUTH 51' 09' WEST ALONG THE NORTHWESTERLY LINE
OF COUNTY ROAD No. 79 A DISTANCE OF 672.6 FEET TO THE TRUE POINT OF
BEGINNING OF THIS LINE DESCRIPTION; THENCE NORTH 38°51' WEST A DISTANCE OF
568 FEET MORE OR LESS TO THE SOUTHERLY BANK OF SAID UNNAMED CREEK AND THE
TERMINUS OF THIS LINE DESCRIPTION.
TOGETHER WITH THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 25,
TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH, RANGE 2 EAST OF W.M., EXCEPT THE FOLLOWING DESCRIBED TRACT:
BEGINNING AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER OF SAID QUARTER QUARTER; THENCE SOUTH
ALONG THE EAST LINE 726 FEET; THENCE WEST 339 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE EAST
BANK OF DUFFNER DITCH; THENCE NORTH AND EASTERLY ALONG THE EAST SIDE OF
DUFFNER DITCH TO THE NORTH LINE OF SAID QUARTER QUARTER; THENCE EAST
ALONG THE NORTH LINE OF SAID QUARTER QUARTER 342 FEET, MORE OR LESS, TO THE
POINT OF BEGINNING, LESS ROADS AND LESS DITCHES.
TOGETHER WITH ANY PORTION OF COUNTY ROAD No. 79, COMMONLY KNOWN AS
FLYNN ROAD, LYING WITHIN SAID QUARTER QUARTER.
TOGETHER WITH THE SOUTHWEST QUARTER OF SECTION 24, TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH, RANGE 2
EAST OF W.M.; LESS THE NORTH HALF OF THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF SAID SOUTHWEST
QUARTER.
TOGETHER WITH THE EAST 18 FEET OF THE EAST HALF OF THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF
SECTION 23, TOWNSHIP 40 NORTH, RANGE 2 EAST OF W.M., EXCEPT THE NORTH HALF OF THE
NORTH HALF OF SAID SOUTHEAST QUARTER.
TOGETHER WITH ALL OF COUNTY ROAD No. 79, COMMONLY KNOWN AS FLYNN ROAD, LYING
WITHIN THE NORTHWEST QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER AND THE SOUTHWEST
QUARTER OF THE NORTHEAST QUARTER AND THE SOUTHEAST QUARTER OF THE NORTHWEST
QUARTER OF SAID SECTION 25.
SITUATE IN WHATCOM COUNTY, WASHINGTON.
EXHIBIT "C"
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