Resolution 1354RESOLUTION NO. 1354
A RESOLUTION OF THE EDMONDS CITY COUNCIL SETTING A
DATE FOR A PUBLIC HEARING TO CONSIDER THE VACATION
OF TWO STREETS AND ONE ALLEY LOCATED WITHIN THE
RECENTLY ACQUIRED CIVIC FIELD PROPERTY; REPEALING
RESOLUTION 1352 THAT SET A HEARING DATE FOR THE
VACATION OF THE TWO STREETS WITHOUT MENTIONING THE
ALLEY.
WHEREAS, RCW 35.79.010 authorizes the city council to initiate a street vacation
process by passage of a resolution; and
WHEREAS, RCW 35.79.010 requires the city council to fix a time by resolution for
public hearing on any proposed street vacation; and
WHEREAS, RCW 35.79.010 requires that such hearing occur no less than twenty days
and no more than sixty days after the passage of the resolution fixing the hearing date;
and
WHEREAS, in addition to state law, chapter 20.70 ECDC also sets forth street vacation
procedures, some but not all of which are applicable to a street vacation initiated by the
city council; and
WHEREAS; the city council would like to initiate a street vacation process for two
streets and one alley within the civic field property that are legally described as follows:
Edmonds Street between Blocks 99 and 100, Sprague Street between Blocks 100 and
101, and the unnamed alley within Block 100, City of Edmonds, according to the plat
thereof recorded in volume 2 of Plats, pages 39 and 39A, records of Snohomish County,
Washington; and
WHEREAS, the resolution being repealed only mentioned the two streets within civic
field, not the alley; and
WHEREAS, the city council deems it preferable to have only one hearing on all the
rights -of -way (streets and alley) to be vacated within civic field; and
WHEREAS, this street/alley vacation is being proposed because the city intends to
preserve most of the civic field property as a park in perpetuity, making it unlikely that
these two streets and the alley will ever be developed for transportation purposes; and
WHEREAS, the city has executed deed restrictions in favor of granting agencies which
would be inconsistent with the improvement of these streets as streets.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of
Edmonds, Washington as follows:
Section 1. A public hearing on the proposed street vacation shall be scheduled for May
17, 2016 at 7:00 p.m. before the Edmonds City Council.
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Section 2. The city clerk shall provide notice of the public hearing as required pursuant
to RCW 35.79.020 and ECDC 20.70.090 to the extent that such notice requirements are
applicable.
Section 3. Resolution 1352 is hereby repealed.
RESOLVED this 121h day of April, 2016.
CITY OF EDMONDS
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MAYOR, DAVE EARLING
ATTEST:
CLERIC CO SSEY
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FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: April 8, 2016
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: April 12, 2016
RESOLUTION NO. 1354
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