1673 - Resolution - Kitsap County's Conservation Easement ProgramRESOLUTION NO. 1673 ✓
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF PORT ORCHARD, WASHINGTON,
SUPPORTING A PETITION FOR REVIEW REGARDING KITSAP
COUNTY'S CONSERVATION EASEMENT PROGRAM.
WHEREAS, the Kitsap County Board of Commissioners adopted a Zoning
Ordinance amendment on February 28, 1994, which added a subsection to provide
for the transfer of rural density through a "Conservation Easement" process;
and
WHEREAS, the amendment allows and encourages development in rural
areas to concentrate at urban densities but outside designated Interim Urban
Growth Areas; and
WHEREAS, the adopted process provides opportunities for large
property owners to evade the possible effects of future forest resource land
designation and protective regulations; and
WHEREAS, Kitsap County has not yet designated forest resource
lands, nor adopted regulations to conserve them, as required by the Growth
Management Act and, to date, has failed to acknowledge that Kitsap County has
any such lands; and
WHEREAS, the amendment does not appear to be consistent with the
intent of the Growth Management Act, with the planning goals of RCW
36.70A.020, nor with the adopted County wide Planning Policies that would
direct most new development into existing cities and Urban Growth Areas;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PORT ORCHARD DOES
HEREBY RESOLVE THE FOLLOWING:
THAT, The City of Port Orchard, Washington supports the Petition
for review of the Kitsap County Conservation Easement Process that has been
submitted to the Central Puget Sound Growth Planning Hearings Board by Kitsap
Citizens for Rural Preservation, et al.
PASSED by the City Council
by the Mayor and attest by the Clerk in
11th day of July, 1994.
ATTEST:
P tricia Parks, City Clerk
of the City of Port Orchard, APPROVED
authentication of such passage this
LESLIE J. WEATHERILL, MAYOR