HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution 95-134-CCBOARD OF COLINTY
GRANT COUNTY,
IN TTHE MATTER OF DFSIGNATING
THE IIVTERIM URBAN GROWTH
AREA FOR T%� CITY OF EPHRATA
COMMISSIONERS
WASHINGTON
RESOLUTION NO. 95-i �4-�r
ORDINANCE NO._ 95-i �4-��
CITY OF EPHRATA
GRANT COUNTY
WH]EEFtEAS, the Growth Management Act, Chapter 36.70A RCW (hereinafter GMA)
requires Grant County to designate 'interim urban growth areas; and
WHEREAS, the cities and towns and Grant County have participated in the development of
County wide Planning Policies; and,
VV:HEREt�S, Zfie GMA requires that all cities within the county be included within an
urban growth area; that urban growth be located first in areas already characterized by urban
gmwth that have sufficient existing public services and facilities to serve the develapm�nt,
and second, in areas already characterized by urban growth that will be served by a
combination of existing and proposed services and facilities; and,
W�REAS, the City of Ephrata has proposed an interim urban growth area for the City of
Ephrata on the basis of the following criteria which include:
1) The Final Adopted Policies of the Grant County Planned Growth Committee 5-6-93.
2) Draft City of Ephrata Comprehensive Plan including goals with respect to land use,
housing, economic development, open-space and recreation, transportadon, utilities,
and capital facilities.
3) Data and information developed by the City of Ephrata and the analysis of such data
and information by the City of Ephrata Citizens Advisory Committee for the
development of the City of Ephrata Comprehensive Plan including population and
land capacity analysis and financing strategies.
tl ThP (`itv nf Fn}�rata hae rPrP���P�i inrnit frnm thP. l'�mnrPhPncivP pla� ('ji1ZCriS
Advisory Committee, the Planning Commission, and the Port of Ephrata and held
public hearings.
5) The City Council of the City of Ephrata has ad,opteti the proposed IUGA.
WHEREAS, the Washington State Department of Cammunity, Trade and Economic
Development was provided 60 day natice and oppartunity to comment and na comments have
been received; and
WHEREAS, the Grant County Planning Director is the SEPA Responsible Official for the
State Environmental Policy ACT (SEPA) purposes, and has reviewed a SEPA Envimnmental
Checklists and issued a Mitigated De�clazation of Non-significance (MZ7NS) on May 16, 1995
for the establishment of the proposeci IUGA; and
WHEI2EAS, the Board of County Commissioners held a public hearing on October 24,
199�, upan natice, at which kime the Board af County Commissioners heard commen,ts in
regazd to the pt�posed IUGA and cantinued the public hearizig until Navember 6, 1995,
upon noticc, in the Board Roam of the County Commissioners at the Grant Caunty Court
House, Ephrata, WA; and,
WF%��tEAS, The Grant County Board of County Commissioners makes the following
�IIiC�12i�S �ild CC}IiCitiSiOf1S;
I, The Washington 5tate Legisiature has adopted the Growth Management Act. Grant
County has been mandated to plan under the Growth Management Act, Thc Growth
Management Act rec�uires that Intcrim Urban Growth Areas be designated for cities,
tawns and rural urban nc�des within Grant County. The City of Ephrata has rnade a
progosal for an interim urban growth area. to the Grant County Board of
Commissioners. A final urban gmwth area will be developed and propose�i by the
City af Ephrata in the completed City of Ephrata Comprehensive Plan.
2. The Washington State Legislature has determzned che follawing. Gmwth and
dcvclopme�t is inevitable. Grawth, development a�d population increa.�e will affcct
the human and naturat e�vironment. The development of comprehensive glans and
i:tlpiementing develapment regulatians as required by the Grawth Management Act
will constitute mitigation toc>ls to mitigate potentiai adverse impacts to che human and
natural environment resuiting fram gmwth, deveiopment and pogulation increase in a
pianzied, coordinated and funded manner cor�current with growth, develapment and
popuiation increase.
3. The City of Ephrata has deternune�- that its NGA proposal r�e�are.re:;ents a rea.ronable
area tca which the City of Ephrata may providc urilan services, facilities and utilitzes
aves a 20 year planning horizan. 1fie City af Ephrata has proposed an interim
LTrban Growth Area, providing sufficient area far development. The City af Eghrata
l�.eV4llrIA�'.hensive Plan, implementing devetapment regulations, capital facilities ptans
and capitai funding plans wi11 address: tand use; transportation; utiiities; capital
facilides; housing; ecanomic deveiopment; open space and recreation; and, design in
the City of Ephrata and the proposeci Interim Urban Gz°owth Area.
4. The City of Ephrata and Grant County may deveiop Interlacal Agreements for jaint
planning to implement the Growth Management Act,
5. The IUGA progasal by the City af Ephrata and supgorting dacumenta,tion addresses
criteria including but not lirnited to the following:
A. Existing commerciai and residential develo�ments bordering the Gorpc�rate
limits of the City.
B. Estimated gogulation growttt of the City.
C, The capacity of the city for expanding urban governmentat services as defined
in RCW 36.70A. 430 (16).
D. Availability of land suita�ile far @evelapment in the city or the area adjacent to
the City.
E. Mticipal.ed growth and development aver a 20 year period of time.
NC?W, TS��EFQRE , BE IT 1�;ESULVED: that the NGA proposal by the City of
Eghrata is established by the Board of County Commissianers as identified in Eachibit A with
ihe following stipulations:
Stipulations:
l, The fianal uri�an growth area shall be proposed by the City of Ephrata and designated
in compiiance with the Growth Management Act, The County Wide Pianning
Policies, The Washington Stat� Er�vironmental Policy Act, and ali applicable federal,
state, and Iacai reguiations, rulings or requirements. .
2. The final urban growth area shall be proposed by the City of Ephrata and designated
in confarmancc, as required by the Gmwth Management Act, with revised poptilation
projections for Grant County as prepared by the Washington State Office of Financial
Management. The 20 year popuiadon pmjectians relea.se,d by OFM for Grant County
in I992, which were underestimated by OFM are to be used as abasc populatian
projection. OFM will issue revised papuladon prajectians in late 1995. Final Urban
Growth Areas shall in�tude areas and densities sufficient to permit urban gmwth that
is projected ko occur in Grant County within the next 20 years based upon official
population projections for Grant Gounty.
3. The final urban growth area pmposal by the City of Ephrata and designadon shall,
take intc� cr�nsideration SEPA Prethreshold Decision Scoping Review Camments and
additional commenta submitte,ci by gersons, agencies with jurisdiction, the
Washington Statc Department of Ecoiogy, affected Indian Tribes, and each loca.l
agency or political subdivision whose public services would be changed as a result of
implementadon of the TUGA pragosal.
4. TI�e Interim Urban Grawth Area shall be considered as a Iong term urban growth
area baundary providing capracity in keeping with the City af Ephrata's plans and
projeciiorzs far popuiation gmwth and development in the agricultural, residential,
commerciai, izidustrial, and public s�ectors af the community and for the pn��crva;tion
an cnhanccment of the n�ral environment and life style enjoyed by thG citiu�s of the
City of Ephrata consistent with the requirements of the Gmwth l��anagement AcL
5. Modification of interim urban growth areas may bs made by the County bascd on
revised data ar changed circumstances. The interim urban growth area designateci by
this ardinance shall remain in effect only until such time as a final urban growth area
is designated pursuant to the requirements of the Grawth Management Act.
6. The City of Ephrata has pmposeci future land use designations within the NGA
under the jurisdictian of Grant County to be used as a guide far the development of
the final Urban Growth Area and the development of Iand use and development
regulatians. The City of Ephrata and Grant County may work jaint�y W deveiog
dcfinai future iand use designations within the iLTGA and ta create land use and
development reguiatians for the IUGA consistent with the requirements of the
Growth Management Act.
DONE 1�S �r►, DAY OF �ov mher 19�5.
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Cler �the Board
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Prosecuting Attorney
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Tim Snead, Chairman
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Commissioner
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Constituting the Board of County Commissioners
of Grant County, Washington