HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 00-121-CCBOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
GRANT COUNTY, WASHINGTON
ORDINA1�iCE NO. 00 -121 - CC
An Ordinance Relating to the Adoption of Interim Official Controls temporarily
amending the residential development densities in Rural Residential2 (RR2), Rural
Residential3 (RR3), Raral Community (RC), Agriculture Service Center (ASC),
Recreational Development (RD), Shoreline Development 1(SD1), Shoreline
Development 2(SD2), Shoreline Development 3(SD3), Shoreline Development 4(SD4),
and prohibiting non-agricultural industrial development and commercial development
in Rural General Commercial (RGC), Rural Neighborhood Commercial (RNC), Raral
Freeway Commercial (RFC), Rural Recreational Commercial (RRC), Rural Light
Industrial (RLn, and Rural Heavy Industrial (ItFII), Rural Residential2 (RR2), Rural
Residential3 (RR3), Rural Community (RC), Agriculture Service Center (ASC),
Recreational Development (RD), Shoreline Development 1(SDl), Shoreline
Development 2(�D2), Shoreline Development 3(SD3), Shoreline Development 4(SD4)
zoning districts, and other matters properly relating thereto.
RECITALS:
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Grant County, Washington intends to comply fully
with the orders and directives of the Eastern Washington Crrowth Management Hearings Board issued in
case nos. 99-1-OOl 6 and 99-1-0019 pending appeal of certain portions of the Board's Final Decisions and
Orders to the Thurston County Superior Court; and,
WAEREAS, 36.70A.390 RCW provides for the adoption of interim zoning con�rols provided the County
holds a public hearing on the proposed Interim Zoning Ordinance within at least sixty (60) days of its
adoption; and, that the Interim Zoning Ordinance may be effective £or not longer than six (6) months, but
may be effective for up to oz�e year if a work plan is developed; and, that the Interim Zoning Ordinance
may be extended for one or more six-month period; and,
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissionars of Grant County, Washington have initiated an appeal
of the Eastern Washington Growth Management Hearings Board's decision holding Grant County's
adoption of rural residential densities in the Comprehensive Plan' of one dwelling unit per 2.5 acres in the
rural lands designation of Crrant County is non-compliant with the Growth Management Act; and
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Grant County, Washington have initiated an appeal
of the Eastern Washington Growth Management Hearings Board's decision holding Grant County's
adoption of rural commercial and rural industrial land use designations in the Comprehensive Plan to be
non-compliant with the Growth Management Act; and
The Board has not passed on the validity of the Uniform Development Code,
Grant County Board of Commissioners
Ordinance No. 2000-121-CC
Page 2
WI3EREAS, the Board of County Commissioners of Grant County, Washington have initiated an appeal
of the Eastern Washington Growth Management Hearings Board's decision holding Grant County's
adoption of Rural Areas of More Intensive Development (RAIDs) in the Comprehensive Plan is non-
compliant with the County-wide Planning Policies adopted in 1993; and
WHEItEAS, The Board of County Commissioners makes the following findings:
1. An emergency exists;
2. There is not adequate time to satisfy normal notice for a public hearing;
3. Density res�rictions and prohibitions on industrial and commercial development in the rural lands
of Grant County are required because the County is complying with the final orders of the �astern
Washington Crrowth Management Hearings Board.
WHEREAS, the Board of County Commissioners will provide the required public notice and hold a
public hearing on October 17, 2000 at 1:30 p.m. in the Grant County Courthouse Board of County
Commissioners Hearings Room, Ephrata, Washington regarding this matter.
WHEREAS, it is the hope of the Board of County Commissioners that this interim measure will only be
in force for a short period of time with most, if not all issues resolved by the completion of the County's
annual amendment procass which is expected to be cornpleted by January 31, 2001. However, if
additional time is necessary, it is also the intent of the Board to maintain compliance with the Eastern
Washington Growth Management Hearings Board decisions through the extension of this ordinance, or
portions thereof, until such time as the above mentioned appeals have been fully resolved to tha
satisfaction of the Board of County Commissioners.
WHEREAS, the effective date o�this ordinance shall be: 8 a.m. October 2, 2000 through 5 p.m. March
31, 2001. In the event an extension is necessary, the Grant County Board of County Commissioners
hereby tentatively schedules a Public Hearing for Mareh 27, 2001 at 1:30 p.m. in the Grant County
Courthouse Board of County Commissioners Hearings Room, Ephrata, Washington.
NOW, THEREFORE, The Grant County Board of County Commissioners do hereby ordain and
establish interim development regulations as follows:
Rural Residential 2(RRZ): Maximum residential density shall not be greater than one (1) dwelling unit
per five (5) acres.
Rural Residential3 (RR3): Maximum residential density shall not be greater than one (1) dwelling unit
per �ve (5) acres.
Rural Community (RC), Agriculture Service Center (ASC), Recreational Development (RD), Shoreline
Development 1(SD1), Shoreline Development 2(SD2), Shoreline Development 3(SD3), Shoreline
Development 4 (SD4):
A) Maximum residential density shall not be greater than one (1) dwelling unit per two and one
half (2 '/2) acres where development is proposed within the obvious historically developed
boundaries.
B) Maximum residential density shall not be greater than one (1) dwelling unit per five (5) acres
where development is proposed outside of the obvious historically developed boundaries.
Grant County Board of Commissioners
Ordinance No. 2000-121-CC
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New oommercial development and new non-agricultural industrial development on previously
undeveloped vacant lands outside of the obvious historically developed boundaries shall be prohibited in
Rural General Commercial (RGC), Rural Neighborhood Commercial (RNC), Rura1 Freeway Coininercial
(RFC), Rural Recreational Commercial (RRC), Rural Light Industrial (RLI), and Rural Heavy Industrial
(RHI), Rural Residential2 (RR2), Rura1 Residential3 (RR3), Rural Community (RC), Agriculture
Service Center (ASC), Recreational Development (RD), Shoreline Development 1(SD1), Shoreline
Development 2(SD2), Shoreline Development 3(SD3), Shoreline Development 4(SD4) zoning dis�ricts.
For the purpose of this ordinance, the terms "obvious historically developed boundaries" sha11 be
determined by assessing structures and developments completed and in place on or before July 1, 1990.
PASSED by the Board of Grant County Commissioners in regular session at Ephrata, Washington, by the
following vote, then signed by its membership and attested by its Clerlc in authorization of such passage
this 2nd day of October , 2000.
3 YEA; 0 NAY; p ABSTAIN; and � ABSENT.
BOARD OF GRANT COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
GRANT COUNTY, WASHINGTON
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Deborah Kay Moore� h irperson
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LeRoy C. liso , ommissioner
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Tim Snead omm' sioner
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PeggY g
Clerk of the Board