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By:

Executive Committee

GMPC

MOTION

NO.

19.1

A

MOTION

to

amend

to the Urban

Growth

Boundary map in the

20I2King

County Countywide

Planning Policies

to

add

theGreater

Downtown

Kirkland

Urban Center

as

an

Urban

Center.

WHEREAS

accommodating

growth in

Urban

Centers

allows

King

County

to

meet

a

range

of

objectives

including providing

a

land

use

framework for

an

efficient

and

effective regional transportation

system

; and

WHEREAS Countywide

Planning

Policy DP-31 allows for

designation

of

newUrban Centers;

and

WHEREAS

the

City of Kirkland

has

demonstrated that the

Greater

Downtown

Kirkland

Urban Center

meets

the

criteria listed in Policy

DP-31;

and

WHEREAS

the

City of Kirkland

briefed

the

Growth

Management Planning

Council

on the proposal

to

designate

the Greater

Downtown

Kirkland

Urban Center

as an

Urban Center at its meeting on July

24 2019.

NOW

THEREFORE BE

IT

RESOLVED

that the

Growth

Management Planning

Council

of King

County

hereby recommends that the Urban

Growth

Boundary map in

the

2012King

County Countywide

Planning

Policies

be amended

to

add

the Greater

Downtown

Kirkland

Urban Center

as an

Urban Center

as

shown on attachment

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to

thismotion.

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Planning

CouncilAttachment

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Greater

Downtown

Kirkland

Urban Center map

Ordinance 19007