HomeMy WebLinkAbout3754 ResolutionRESOLUTION NO. 37 ~-:t
A RESOLUTION DECLARING THE PREFERRED URBAN GROWTH
BOUNDARY FOR THE CITY OF PASCO.
WHEREAS, the City of Pasco and Franklin County are planning under the State
Growth Management Act (GMA) of 1990 as amended; and
WHEREAS, The GMA (RCW 36.70A.110) requires the establishment of Urban
Growth Areas (UGA); and
and
WHEREAS, the goals of the Growth Management Act related to UGA's include:
i) Encouraging development of urban areas where adequate public facilities
and services exist or can be provided in an efficient manner;
ii) Reducing the inappropriate conversion of undeveloped land into sprawling
low-density development; and ,
iii) Maintaining and enhancing natural resource-based industries, including
productive timber, agriculture, and fisheries industries; and
WHEREAS, each city located in Franklin County must be included within a UGA;
WHEREAS, UGA's are to encompass lands within the City's recognized utility
service area; and
WHEREAS, UGA' s may include portions of the County already characterized by
urban growth or adjacent to urban growth; and
WHEREAS, proposed UGA amendment site is located between the City limits
and the urbanized Clark Addition; and
WHEREAS, the proposed UGA amendment site is located within 100 feet of the
new Franklin Elementary School property at the comer of Road 52 and Bums Road; and
WHEREAS, designated UGA's are to include enough undeveloped land to
adequately accommodate forecasted growth for a 20 year planning period; and
WHEREAS, forecasted growth is determined by population projections provided
by the State Office of Financial Management (OFM); and
WHEREAS, OFM projections indicate Pasco's UGA population will increase by
54,385 for a total population of 124,945 during the next 20 year planning horizon; and,
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WHEREAS, the OFM projected population will require about 3,400 acres of land.
The current UGA has about 2,400 acres of vacant land designated for residential
development; and
WHEREAS, About 20 percent of the vacant lands within the UGA designated for
residential development are encumbered with gravel mining operations and leases which
significantly reduces the available buildable lands; and
WHEREAS, On December 31, 2012 the Port of Pasco purchased 30 acres of land
in the Northwest Commons subdivision for a runway protection zone. This purchase
removed 30 acres of residential land from the UGA inventory; and
WHEREAS, the cmTent UGA is about 1,400 acres sho1t of what is needed to
accommodate project future growth; and
WHEREAS, the local market supply factor has been an issue in Pasco for several
years now . As available residential land inside the current UGA has diminished land
prices have risen impacting the cost of housing; and
WHEREAS, State and local housing goals encourage the provision of affordable
housing (RCW 36.70A.210(3)e and County Policy #6) within the community; and
WHEREAS, in the recent past utility providers and the City have completed
master plans, capital facility plans and or have actually constructed new utility facilities,
to accommodate future growth within the current and expanded UGA; and
WHEREAS, in 2012, at the request of the Port, the City and County adopted new
Airpo1t zoning regulations to protect the airp01t from incompatible land uses. The
regulations meet Federal Aviation Administration standards specifically designed to
protect airports from incompatible uses. The regulations were also designed to protect
the air space around the airport consistent with Federal Aviation Administration
requirements; and
WHEREAS, the proposed UGA site is encumbered by Airport Use Zones
providing land use protection to the runway approach to runway 12 and airspace
surrounding the airport; and
WHEREAS, County Commissioner's denial of this UGA Boundary amendment in
October of 2015 failed to consider the cooperative work between the City, County and
Port on the development of the Airport Master Plan and Airport Zoning regulations that
were adopted by both the City and County; and
WHEREAS, The Pasco City Council has reviewed and accepted the Planning
Commission recommendation; and
WHEREAS, the Pasco City Council has determined the Pasco Urban Growth
Area boundary must be expanded to permitted the City to properly plan for future growth
as required by the Growth Management Act; NOW THEREFORE
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BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PASCO:
Section 1. That the boundaries identified in Exhibit "I " are the pre ferred
boundary lines for the Pasco Urban Growth Area .
Section 2. That this resolution be forwarded to Franklin County for its due
cons ideration of the City Counci l 's request for desired the UGA boundaiy as identified in
Exhibit "1 ".
Passed by the City Council of the City of Pasco this 6th day of March 2017.
Matt Watkins , Mayor
ATTEST: APP1l~ AS TO FORM :
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Leland B . Kerr, City Attorney
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Exhibit
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Item: UGB Adjustment
Applicant: Steve West/FARM 2005 LLC
File#: CPA 2016-002
SITE a.
C ity Limits Urban Grev.th Boundary
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