HomeMy WebLinkAboutR-1990-D5834 Initiative 547 RESOLUTION NO. D -5834
A RESOLUTION regarding Growth Management and opposing Initia-
tive 547 - The Balanced Growth Enabling Act.
WHEREAS, the City of Yakima wants to promote orderly and
environmentally sensitive growth; and
WHEREAS, the 1990 Legislature enacted that state's first
comprehensive Growth Management Act (the Act) to guide and
integrate local land use, transportation, capital facilities,
and economic development planning; and
WHEREAS, the Act authorizes cities /counties to charge
development impact fees; and
WHEREAS, the Act recognizes the diversity of growth
management challenges facing Washington's large, urban, small,
and rural cities /counties and establishes distinct planning
requirements for all cities /counties that vary depending upon
population and growth rates; and
WHEREAS, the Act maintains local control and encourages
local jurisdictions to coordinate their planning efforts; and
WHEREAS, the legislation constitutes a positive step in
an evolving state growth management strategy that will be
expanded with additional citizen input, experiences from
jurisdictions involving in implementation of the Act, and the
recommendations of the Governor and his Growth Strategies
Commission; and
WHEREAS, Initiative 547 has been put forth that outlines
a different approach to growth management; and
WHEREAS, this Initiative creates a new state agency
granted authority over local land use decisions; and
WHEREAS, this Initiative establishes a dangerous prece-
dent of requiring local budgeting and land use plans be in
compliance with planning goals that do not allow local plans a
chance to update to meet these goals; and
WHEREAS, its passage could potentially invalidate numer-
ous environmental protection, transportation, and growth
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management tools provided to cities during the 1990 Legisla-
tive session; and
WHEREAS, this Initiative does not adequately recognize
planning and economic development distinctions characterized
by the diversity of Washington's 268 cities; and
WHEREAS, the City Council has complied with the terms of
RCW 42.17.130 by giving notice that this resolution is sched-
uled for consideration at its October 23, 1990 meeting and
allowing members of the public at such meeting to express
opposing views, now, therefore,
BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF YAKIMA:
The City of Yakima strongly endorses the thrust of the
Growth Management Act of 1990 as an essential and responsible
series of planning and interlocal coordination measure that as
implemented, will help direct community, regional, and state-
wide efforts to enhance Washington's quality of life, environ-
mental protection, and economic vitality;
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Yakima:
a. Opposes the creation of state -level agencies or
panels with limited and selective memberships, such as stipu-
lated in Initiative 547, which are empowered to review and
approve or disapprove the substance of local comprehensive
plans and associated development regulations; and
b. Opposes Initiative 547 because it will further
delay implementation of Growth Management policies and regula-
tions in the fastest growing jurisdictions by altering time-
lines and local activities now underway to implement the Act
and threatens to invalidate other environmental protection,
transportation, and growth management tools granted to cities
during the 1990 Legislative session; and
c. Opposes Initiative 547 because it subjects every
local land use and capital budget decision to unnecessary
litigation; and
d. Opposes Initiative 547 and its statewide manda-
tory planning provisions which would establish the same plan-
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ning requirements in all cities, regardless of size, location,
and growth rates; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the City of Yakima supports
the continued efforts of the Washington Growth Commission to
further strengthen the Act through its recommendations.
ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL this 23rd day of October,
1990.
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ATTEST:
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