1958 - Resolution - McCormick Urban Growth AreaRESOLUTION N0.1958
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF PORT ORCHARD, WASHINGTON
SUPPORTING THE McCORMICK URBAN GROWTH AREA SUB AREA
PLAN.
WHEREAS, the City of Port Orchard provides municipal water and sewer services to
McCormick Woods, which is an urban development, and McCormick North, which is a designated urban
area; and
WHEREAS, the City of Port Orchard is preparing the update to the McCormick Water
System Plan, which will show that the City is prepared to and intends to provide water to those portions of the
ULID #6 properties south of Old Clifton Road; and
WHEREAS, the City of Port Orchard provides municipal water services to the entire ULID #6
area, pursuant to an Agreement with Kitsap County dated March 28, 1996, and
WHEREAS, the City of Port Orchard and the City of Bremerton have agreed to enter into
cooperative arrangements regarding how sewer and water and other urban services will be delivered to the
entire master-planned urban area which includes ULID #6 (Kitsap County) and the Northwest Corporate
Campus (City of Bremerton), which are contiguous; and
WHEREAS, the City of Port Orchard staff has worked cooperatively with Kitsap County in
the preparation of the proposed Sub Area Plan; and
WHEREAS, the Sub Area Plan appropriately addressed the Urban Joint Planning Area
issues listed in the Kitsap County's 1998 Comprehensive Plan regarding population projections, and
allocations, land uses, utility planning and urban service areas, protection of critical areas, and logical and
efficient provision of urban capital facilities as it pertains to the urban areas of McCormick Woods and
McCormick North and the proposed urban area of McCormick West; and,
WHEREAS, a goal of growth management is to maximize effective use of available urban
services; and
WHEREAS, the Kitsap County Planning Commission has recommended the No-Action
alternative for the Sub Area Plan and recommended a "holistic" or expanded study of the existing urban
growth areas, the urban joint planning areas, and the urban reserve area of South Kitsap in one
comprehensive effort; and
WHEREAS, the City of Port Orchard considers that area studied by the proposed Sub
Area Plan will eventually be within the Port Orchard Urban Growth Area; and
WHEREAS, the City of Port Orchard and Kitsap County have signed a Memorandum of
Agreement, consistent with the requirements of the Kitsap County Comprehensive Plan, to study the area
west of State Road 16 in phases and agreed upon priorities, now therefore,
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT ORCHARD DOES HEREBY RESOLVE
AS FOLLOWS:
Resolution No.1958
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(1) The City of Port Orchard strongly supports the concept of preparing sub area
plans for selected portions of the urban reserve properties in phases, in lieu of an
expanded approach, in order to keep the task manageable by Kitsap County and
City of Port Orchard staff resources and affordable to the taxpayers.
(2) The City of Port Orchard supports prioritizing the sub area planning process, as
described in the Memorandum of Agreement with Kitsap County.
(3) The Phase 2 Sub Area Plan needs to include the properties between the
Sidney/Sedgwick corporate limits and the McCormick East planning to assure
continuity of urban services, consistency of City/County planning, and resolution
of future governance issues.
(4) The City of Port Orchard is the provider of municipal services to the McCormick
Woods community and will be the provider of services to McCormick East and its
adjacent properties, and the subarea plans for these areas should not be
contingent on any revision of East Port Orchard planning.
(5) The Kitsap County Planning Commission was not fully aware of the history,
philosophy, and provisions of the Memorandum of Agreement and Board of
County Commissioners should honor the terms of the Memorandum of
Agreement.
(6) The City of Port Orchard supports the preferred alternative as described in the
proposed Sub Area Plan because it presents a long-range plan for a mixed-use,
mixed-density residential and office-park community where future residents can
live, work and play, and effectively utilize scarce urban services.
(7) The City of Port Orchard recommends adoption of !he preferred alternative by the
Kitsap County Board of Commissioners.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Port Orchard, APPROVED by the Mayor and
attested by the Clerk in authentication of such passage this 20th dg ~& -------=-.,
LESLIE J. WEATHERILL, MAYOR
ATTES£A a ~
Patricia Parks, City Clerk