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PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT
Engineering Division
GARY HAAKENSON
MAYOR
ENGINEERING
fi-T & RECOMMENDATION TO THE HEARING EXAMINEa
Review of 2010 City Project List
Date of Report: Jan ary 26, 20 0
From:
Robert English
City Engineer
Public Hearing: February 4, 2010 at 3:00 P.M.
Edmonds Public Safety Complex: Council Chambers
250 5th Avenue North, Edmonds WA 98020
I. SUMMARY OF PROPOSED ACTION AND RECOMMENDATION:
The City of Edmonds Comprehensive Plan, Page 2, Effective Plan, requires that
No street, park or other public way, ground, place, space, or
public building or structure, or utility [whether publicly or
privately owned] shall be abandoned, constructed or
authorized until the Hearing Examiner has reviewed and
reported to the City Council on the location, extent and
consistency with the Comprehensive Plan. The Hearing
Examiner's report shall be advisory only.
This provision was not mirrored by a provision of the Edmonds Community
Development Code and provisions of the Comprehensive Plan are not self-executing. In
order to comply with the Growth Management Act, the City's zoning code and
Comprehensive Plan must be synchronized.
Accordingly, the Edmonds City Council adopted Interim Ordinance 3780. A copy is
attached to the staff report as Exhibit 2. In accordance with the City Council's directive,
the staff brings the following projects and related easements to the Hearing Examiner for
review in accordance with the Comprehensive Plan and Interim Zoning Ordinance. We
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request your finding that the project's location and extent are consistent with the
Comprehensive Plan. The attached 2010 project list (Exhibit 1) references the specific
provision of the Comprehensive Plan, Capital Facilities Plan or the Comprehensive Plan
elements that acknowledges and authorizes the project.
II. ATTACHMENTS:
1. 2010 Project List and Easements
2. Ordinance No. 3780
3. Comprehensive Plan (December 2009)
4. 2002 Water Comprehensive Plan (Including Appendix G)
5. 2006 Sanitary Sewer Comprehensive Plan
6. 2003 Stormwater Comprehensive Plan
7. Edmonds Drainage Basin Studies — Talbot Park Basin (Pgs 7-6, 7-7 and Map)
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ORDINANCE NO. 3780
AN INTERIM ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS,
WASHINGTON, ADOPTING CERTAIN PROCEDURES WITH
RESPECT TO THE ABANDONMENT, CONSTRUCTION AND
AUTHORIZATION OF PUBLIC PROJECTS AND STREET
VACATIONS AND DEDICATIONS, SETTING A PUBLIC
HEARING, FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME SHALL
BECOME EFFECTIVE AND PROVIDING FOR EXPIRATION.
WHEREAS, the City of Edmonds Comprehensive Plan, Effect Of Plan, Sections
B and C establishes procedure for Hearing Examiner review and advisory recommendation to the
City Council, and
WHEREAS, such provisions have been in effect for many years and, while
superseded by the City's Comprehensive Facilities Plan and other procedures mandated by the
Growth Management Act, remain in full force and effect, and
WHEREAS, there are no implementing provisions within the City's Community
Development Code, and the Comprehensive Plan is not self executing, and
WHEREAS, the City is obligated to maintain consistency between its
Comprehensive Plan and Zoning Code in order to remain in compliance with the requirements of
the Growth Management Act, Chapter 36.70A RCW, and
WHEREAS, the City Council deems it to be in the public interest to:;
A. Adopt interim zoning procedures to ensure compliance with the provisions
of the City's Comprehensive Plan; and
B. Forward the aforementioned provisions of the Comprehensive Plan for
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review in the 2010 process for review and potential amendment of the Comprehensive Plan,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, DO
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The following interim zoning procedures are hereby established to be
administered in conjunction with the procedural requirements of Title 20 of the Edmonds
Community Development Code:
1.1 Public Projects No street, park or other public way, ground, place, space
or public building or structure, or utility (whether publicly or privately owned) shall be
abandoned, constructed or authorized until the Hearing Examiner has reviewed and reported to
the City Council the location, extent and consistency with the Comprehensive Plan. The Hearing
Examiner's report shall be advisory only.
1.1.1 A proposal to construct or authorize any of the public properties
detailed in Section 1.1 which are listed on the Capital Facilities Plan, Parks Plan, Capital
Improvements Plan or other Comprehensive Plan element may be heard either individually or as
a group. The hearing before the Hearing Examiner for the construction or authorization of any
project so listed in the Comprehensive Plan shall be listed on the Hearing Examiner's agenda,
and notice published on the City's web site and on City bulletin boards.
1.2. Notice of the Hearing Examiner review of a public project, construction or
authorization not shown on a Comprehensive Plan element shall be individually noticed in
accord with ECDC 20.03.002. By way of illustration and not limitation, such procedures shall
include posting, published notice and mailed notice to property owners within three hundred
(300) feet of the project.
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1.2. Street Vacations and Dedication. The Comprehensive Plan shall be
consulted prior to the establishment, improvement, abandonment or vacation of any street. No
dedication of any street or other area for public use shall be accepted by the City Council until its
location, character, extent and effect thereof shall be considered by the Hearing Examiner with
respect to the Comprehensive Plan. The Hearing Examiner's report shall be provided to the
City Council with respect to the abandonment, vacation or dedication of any street or other right
of way in public use. Dedications within the short subdivision process which do not require City
Council acceptance of the dedication are exempt from this requirement. In any development
permit process which has been delegated to the Hearing Examiner under the provisions of the
Edmonds Community Development Code and includes the dedication of a street or other area for
public use, the Hearing Examiner shall consider whether the action is consistent with the
Comprehensive Plan as a part of the Hearing Examiner's determination on the underlying permit.
1.2.1 Hearing Examiner review shall be substituted for the Planning
Board review provided for in Chapter 20.65.010 during the life of this interim ordinance. The
hearing procedures and notification for any other process shall be consistent with the
requirements of ECDC Chapter 20.65 and as a Type V procedure.
1.2.2 Review of a dedication with a permit shall be processed in the
same manner as the underlying development permit.
1.2.3 Street vacations shall be processed as provided in Chapter 20.70
ECDC, provided, however, that the Hearing Examiner shall hold a hearing prior to City Council
consideration.
Section 2. These interim zoning procedures are adopted pursuant to the
authorization of Chapter 36.70A RCW. A public hearing shall be held on the adoption of these
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procedures within sixty (60) days of the date of their adoption. The City Clerk is authorized to
provide notice of a public hearing in accordance with adopted Council policy and a hearing is
hereby set for the 2nd day of March, 2010.
Section 3. Effective Date. This ordinance, being an exercise of a power specifi-
cally delegated to the City legislative body, is not subject to referendum, and shall take effect
five (5) days after passage and publication of an approved summary thereof consisting of the
title.
Section 4. The adoption of an interim zoning procedure shall expire on its own
terms six months after its effective date unless extended by act of the City Council.
ATTEST/AUTHENTICATED:
CLERK,D•. S. CHASE
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APPROVED:
MAYQfR GA HA KENSON
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: 01-15-2010
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: 01-19-2010
PUBLISHED: 01-24-2010
EFFECTIVE DATE: 01-29-2010
ORDINANCE NO. 3780
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SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 3780
of the City of Edmonds, Washington
On the 19th day of January, 2010, the City Council of the City of Edmonds,
passed Ordinance No. 3780. A summary of the content of said ordinance, consisting of the title,
provides as follows:
AN INTERIM ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EDMONDS, WASHINGTON, ADOPTING
CERTAIN PROCEDURES WITH RESPECT TO THE ABANDONMENT, CONSTRUCTION
AND AUTHORIZATION OF PUBLIC PROJECTS AND STREET VACATIONS AND
DEDICATIONS, SETTING A PUBLIC HEARING, FIXING A TIME WHEN THE SAME
SHALL BECOME EFFECTIVE AND PROVIDING FOR EXPIRATION.
The full text of this Ordinance will be mailed upon request.
DATED this 20th day of January, 2010.
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CITY CLERK, SANDRA S. CHASE
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