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HomeMy WebLinkAbout1977-2054 PLANS & SPECIFICATIONS FOR OFF-STREET PARKING.; MALL PARKING GARAGE; LOCAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT NO. 1001. ORDINANCE NO. ads/ AN ORDINANCE of the City Council of the City of Yakima, Washington, providing for the approval of the plans and specifications for off-street parking and other improvements within Local Improvement District No. 1001 of the city, exclusive of that portion of such improve- ./ ments generally known as the Mall Parking Garage. WHEREAS, the City Council has heretofore adopted its Ordinances 1719 forming a Parking and Business Improvement Area (the "PBIA") and 1720 folluing Local Improvement District No. 1001 ("L.I.D. 1001") authorizing the acquisition, construction and installation of certain off-street parking facilities, improvements to pedestrian spaces and general improvements to the central business district of the city (which improvements are herein sometimes called the "Project"); and WHEREAS, said Ordinances 1719 and 1720 approved certain preliminary plans and specifications for such improvements; and • WHEREAS, final plans and specifications for such improve- ments have now been prepared and are on file with the city; and WHEREAS, the City Council has considered, pursuant to a public hearing held on March 21, 1977, the feasibility of acquiring that portion of the Project generally known as the Mall Parking Garage and has heard statements from various interested citizens, property owners and city staff concerning the desirability and feasibility of acquiring the Mall Parking Garage; and WHEREAS, the City Council has considered whether or not any environmental impact will occur as a consequence of the acquisition or non-acquisition of the Mall Parking Garage by the city; NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT ORDAINED by the City of Yakima, Wash- ington, as follows: Section 1. The Council of the City of Yakima does hereby find and declare the following: (1) By reason of the unwillingness of the title holder of . the Mall Parking Garage to convey such property to the city and the legal inability of the City of Yakima to acquire such facility through the exercise of the power of eminent domain it is now 111 wholly unfeasible, either legally or practically, for the City of Yakima to acquire the Mall Parking Garage as a part of the facili- ties to be financed by L.I.D. No. 1001 or the PBIA. (2) A determination not to acquire the Mall Parking Garage is not an "action" as defined by WAC 197-10-040(2) or the State Environmental Policy Act. (3) Such non-acquisition will have no significant environ- mental impact. (4) A decision not to acquire the Mall Parking Garage as a part of the Project is not a change in the Project which makes necessary the preparation, consideration or circulation of a new or revised environmental impact statement. • Section 2. The final plans and specifications for the Project now on file with the City are hereby approved, provided, however, that the Mall Parking Garage shall be deleted from those facilities and improvements, comprising the Project, to be acquired and constructed as a part of and within L.I.D. No. 1001 and the PBIA. Such plans and specifications are subject to such changes as to the details thereof as may hereafter be approved by resolution of the City Council. Section 3. Ordinances 1719 and 1720 shall be deemed amended to the extent that they are inconsistent with the provisions of this ordinance. Section 4. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty -.days after its passage, approval and publication as provided by law and by the city charter. • -2- PASSED by the City Council, signed and approved, this day o f , 1977 CITY OF YAKIMA, WASHINGTON BY IL/ _ . 41•Lii ( Mayor ATTEST: F r City Clerk • • -3-- I, IRIS LITZENBERGER, Clerk of the City of Yakima, Washington, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true and complete copy of Ordinance No.45 the City passed and approved at a regular meeting of its City Council held the d day of 411 , 1977. t City C1/rk 411 411