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Home My WebLink AboutReg 2016-12-05 Item 4C - Resolution - Landscape Conservation and Local Infrastructure Program (LCLIP)COUNCIL AGENDA S YNopsis Inilials Meeting Date Prepared by V IT qyo ff ��uu` review 4 11/28/16 LM Resolution t g Date 1215116 ❑ Ordinance Mtg Dale 12/05/16 LM ❑ Other Mt g Dale SPONSOR ❑ Council ❑ Mayor [:] HR DCD [:] Finance [].Fire ❑ TS ❑ P&R ❑ Police ❑ PIF SPONSOR'S The resolution expresses Council support for TDRs and their willingness to consider, at the SUMMARY appropriate time, developing an interlocal agreement with King County to establish a Land Conservation and Local Infrastructure Program. Approving the resolution does not commit the City to implementing a LCLIP, but provides King County with a signal of the City's interest and initiates the 180-day notice required before the City could adopt a LCLIP program. REVIEWED BY ❑ cow Mtg. CA&P Cmte ❑ F&S Cmte ❑ Transportation Cmte F-1 Utilities Cmte ❑ Arts Comm. ❑ Parks Comm. F-1 Planning Comm. DATE: 11/14/16 COMMI'l-fEE CHAIR: QUINN RECOMMENDATIONS: SPONSOR /ADMIN. Department of Community Development Comm"FIT"t" Community Affairs and Parks COST IMPACT / FUND SOURCE ExPi,"NDITUR],', REQUIRED AMOUNT BUDGETED APPROPRIATION REQUIRED $0 $0 $0 Fund Source: Comments: MTG. DATE RECORD OF COUNCIL ACTION 11/28/16 ITEM NO. 4.C. I 3 STAFF SPONSOR: LYNN MIRANDA ORIGINAL, AGF1ND,\DATE: 11/28/16 AGENDA Ii,i-'m Tri,i.j..� Resolution in support of regional transfer of development rights (TDR) as part of a Landscape Conservation and Local Infrastructure Program (LCLIP) CATFIGORY M Discussion Mt g Date 11128116 ❑ motion Mig Dale Resolution t g Date 1215116 ❑ Ordinance Mtg Dale N.BidAward Al g Dale ❑ Public.ffeariogp Mt g Date ❑ Other Mt g Dale SPONSOR ❑ Council ❑ Mayor [:] HR DCD [:] Finance [].Fire ❑ TS ❑ P&R ❑ Police ❑ PIF SPONSOR'S The resolution expresses Council support for TDRs and their willingness to consider, at the SUMMARY appropriate time, developing an interlocal agreement with King County to establish a Land Conservation and Local Infrastructure Program. Approving the resolution does not commit the City to implementing a LCLIP, but provides King County with a signal of the City's interest and initiates the 180-day notice required before the City could adopt a LCLIP program. REVIEWED BY ❑ cow Mtg. CA&P Cmte ❑ F&S Cmte ❑ Transportation Cmte F-1 Utilities Cmte ❑ Arts Comm. ❑ Parks Comm. F-1 Planning Comm. DATE: 11/14/16 COMMI'l-fEE CHAIR: QUINN RECOMMENDATIONS: SPONSOR /ADMIN. Department of Community Development Comm"FIT"t" Community Affairs and Parks COST IMPACT / FUND SOURCE ExPi,"NDITUR],', REQUIRED AMOUNT BUDGETED APPROPRIATION REQUIRED $0 $0 $0 Fund Source: Comments: MTG. DATE RECORD OF COUNCIL ACTION 11/28/16 Forward to next Regular Meeting 12/5/16 MTG. DATE ATTACHMENTS 11/28/16 Informational Memorandum dated 11/08/16 Resolution (Minor wording change to page 1 of Resolution after CAP) Minutes from the Community Affairs and Park meeting of 11/14/16 12/5/16 Resolution 3 El City of Tukwila Washington Resolution No. A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA, WASHINGTON, EXPRESSING THE CITY COUNCIL'S SUPPORT FOR REGIONAL TRANSFER OF DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS AND THE CITY COUNCIL'S WILLINGNESS TO CONSIDER, AT THE APPROPRIATE TIME, DEVELOPING AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH KING COUNTY TO ESTABLISH A LANDSCAPE CONSERVATION AND LOCAL INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM THAT INCLUDES TRANSFER OF DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS POLICIES. WHEREAS, the Tukwila Comprehensive Plan contains goals to implement regional growth management strategies to help reduce sprawl, including goals that support the preservation of open space, encourage coordination with other jurisdictions, and support incentive programs to achieve these goals; and WHEREAS, the Washington State Growth Management Act ("GMA"), RCW 36.70A, establishes a policy of directing development density into urban areas and discouraging development of rural land; and WHEREAS, the GMA encourages the conservation of productive forest and agricultural lands and the retention of open space to conserve fish and wildlife habitat and enhance recreational opportunities; and WHEREAS, the GMA requires counties to adopt county-wide planning policies in cooperation with cities; and WHEREAS, the City of Tukwila ("City") ratified the Countywide Planning Policies for the County; and WHEREAS, the Countywide Planning Policies call for programs and regulations to protect and maintain the rural character of farm and forest lands and direct growth to cities and urban centers; and W:\Word Processing\Resolutions\Support for TDR and LCUP 11 -29 -16 Page 1 of 3 NG:bjs WHEREAS, the City recognizes the importance of working with the County to reduce sprawl and protect lands important to salmon habitat, farmlands, and forestlands and other rural open space by encouraging development in designated urban centers, while funding and creating urban infrastructure necessary to foster livability in growing urban communities; and WHEREAS, inter jurisdictional Transfer of Development Rights ("TDR") is an important tool that can help the City and the County achieve these goals; and WHEREAS, in 2011, the Washington State Legislature approved, and the Governor signed, ESSB 5253, also called the Landscape Conservation and Local Infrastructure Program ("LCLIP", RCW 39.108); and WHEREAS, LCLIP is a new tool for cities and counties to partner on a program that links regional TDR with local infrastructure financing; and WHEREAS, under LCLIP, in exchange for the City receiving TDR credits from rural and resource lands for increased urban development, the County would partner with the City to help fund City infrastructure investments and public improvements to support the new growth by sharing a portion of the County's property tax revenue with the City; and WHEREAS, the City collaborated with the County on a National Estuaries Program grant to pay for consultant studies to evaluate implementing regional TDR and the economic feasibility of LCLIP and other financing tools to fund infrastructure needed to support growth in Southcenter, Tukwila's designated urban center, and the Tukwila International Boulevard District and Tukwila Valley South areas; and WHEREAS, the consultant analyses indicated that the LCLIP tool may be useful to generate additional revenue for such infrastructure and amenities, and that the projected benefits of the LCLIP tool depend on a variety of factors and choices; and WHEREAS, any future TDR/LCLIP interlocal agreement between the City and the County should include funding from the County for public amenities in the City's neighborhoods that accept rural development rights for greater development; NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA, WASHINGTON, HEREBY RESOLVES AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The City Council supports the concept of regional Transfer of Development Rights (TDR). Section 2. The City Council supports considering, at the appropriate time as determined by criteria established collaboratively by the City and the County, establishment of a Transfer of Development Rights (TDR) Landscape Conservation and Local Infrastructure Program (LCLIP) through which developers in the City would receive development incentives in exchange for the purchase of Transferable Development Rights originating from rural and resource areas, and the City would receive funding for infrastructure. The terms of the TDR LCLIP would be specified in an interlocal agreement WAWord Processing\Resolutions\Support for TDR and LCLIP 11-29-16 Page 2 of 3 NG:bjs between the City and the County, which could be executed by the City and the County prior to the commencement of the LCLIP program so LCLIP could begin promptly at the appropriate time as determined through established criteria. Section 3. This resolution serves as notice from the City to the County that, after 180 days of the effective date, the City may hold a public hearing to consider the adoption of LCLIP, pursuant to RCW 39.108.120(1)(a). PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF TUKWILA, WASHINGTON, at a Regular Meeting thereof this - day of 12016. ATTEST/AUTH ENTI CATE D: Christy O'Flaherty, MMC, City Clerk APPROVED AS TO FORM BY: Rachel B. Turpin, City Attorney Joe Duffle, Council President Filed with the City Clerk: Passed by the City Council: Resolution Number: WAWord Processing\Resolutions\Support for TDR and LCLIP 11-29-16 NG:bjs Page 3 of 3