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2008-0270
METROPOLITAN KING COUNTY COUNCIL
NOTICE OF HEARING
Proposed Ordinance 2008-0270
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Metropolitan King County Council will hold a public hearing in the Council Chambers on the 10th Floor of the King County Courthouse (516 Third Avenue, Seattle Washington) on Monday the 23rd day of June 2008 at 1:30 PM. The purpose of this public hearing is to consider adoption of Proposed Ordinance 2008-0270, which relates to flood protection requirements.
King County encourages public comment on Proposed Ordinance 2008-0270. You may wish to present oral testimony at the June 23rd public hearing. Testimony is limited to three minutes per speaker and you may provide written copies for the Councilmembers’ review. Please provide 20 copies of any written material you wish to submit. The chamber is equipped with an audio/visual system capable of displaying 35mm slides, VHS tapes, overheads, and computer displays. Audio/visual presentations are included in the 3-minute timeframe. Testimony sign-up will take place in the lobby outside the Council Chambers before the beginning of the meeting on June 23rd. Please call the Metropolitan King County Council offices at (206) 296-1000 if you need directions to the Courthouse. You may also mail or fax comments to Councilmembers. The address for the Council is King County Courthouse, 516 Third Avenue #1200 Seattle Washington 98104. The Council fax number is (206) 296-0198.
The complete text of Proposed Ordinance 2008-0270 is available in the Council Clerk’s office, Room 1039, King County Courthouse, 516 Third Avenue, Seattle Washington. A copy of the ordinance will be mailed to you upon your request to the Clerk at (206) 296-1020.
SUMMARY
Proposed Ordinance 2008-0270 would amend county code which apply to the five Agricultural Production Districts (APD’s) in the county, but are intended specifically to provide increased flood protection to agricultural landowners in the Snoqualmie, Lower Green and Middle Green APDs.
The overall effect would be to allow landowners to improve or expand their agricultural operations, while maintaining the county’s goals for long term flood plain management. Specifically, the county codes would be revised to:
· Add a new definition for “farm pad”.
· Allow new farm pads in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) floodway.
· Eliminate the requirement for a base flood depth and velocity analysis for non-residential agricultural structures.
· Allow for agricultural accessory structures and certain public purpose structures where the base flood depth exceeds 3 feet and the base flood velocity exceeds 3 feet per second.
· Allow nonresidential agricultural accessory structures in the FEMA floodway within an APD.
· Allow for nonresidential agricultural accessory buildings to be wet flood-proofed outright if they are assessed at less than $65,000.
· Allow the Department of Development and Environmental Services (DDES) director to approve an alteration exception to wet flood-proofed nonresidential agricultural accessory buildings of higher value and requires a notice that flood insurance rates will be assessed at the rate based on the risk to which the building is exposed.
· Define equivalent elevation as having similar relationship to ordinary high water and to the best available 10-year, 50-year and 100-year water surface profiles.
· Allow the creation and use of a compensatory storage bank if compensatory storage cannot be found on site.
Dated at Seattle, Washington, this 21st day of May, 2008.
METROPOLITAN KING COUNTY COUNCIL
KING COUNTY, WASHINGTON
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