216 Promote Orderly And Enviromentally Sensitive GrowthCITY OF 7~II$
RESOL~Ti`ION NO. 216
Wf-~EREAS, the City of Yelm wants to promote orderly and environmentally
sensitive growth; and
WI-~REAS, the 1990 Legislature enacted the 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;
WI-AREAS, 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
WI-AREAS, The Act maintains local control and encourages local
jurisdictions to coorriinate their planning efforts;
Wf-IEREAS, The legislation constitutes a positive step in an evolving state
growth management strategy that will be expanded with additional citizen
input, experiences fran jurisdictions involved 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
WI-AREAS, This Initiative establishes a dangerous precedent of requiring
local budgeting and land use plans be in compliance with planning goals
that do not allow land plans a chance to update to meet these goals; and
WHEREAS, Its passage could potentially invalidate numerous environmental
protection, transportation, and growth management tools provided to cities
during the 1990 Legislative session;
Wf-AREAS, This Initiative does not adequately recognize planning and
economic development distinctions characterized by the diversity of
Washington's 2b8 cities;
NOW, THEREFORE, 8E IT RESOLVED, That the City of Yelm strongly endorses
the thrust of the Growth Management Act of 1990 as an essential and
responsible series of planning and interlocal coordination measures that
as implemented, will help direct community, regional, and statewide
efforts to enhance Washington's quality of life, environmental protection,
and econanic vitality;
6E IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the City of Yelm:
~~ a. Opposes the creation of state-level agencies or panels with limited
and selective memberships, such as stipulated 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 regulations in the fastest growing
jurisdictions by altering timelines 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 larxi use and
capital budget decision to unnecessary legal litigation.
d. Opposes Initiative 547 and its statewide mandatory planning provisions
which would establish the same planning requirements in all cities,
regardless of size, location, and growth rates; and
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the City of Yelm supports the continued
efforts of the Washington Growth Commission to further strengthen The Act
through its recommendations.
THIS RESOLUTION shall take effect immediately upon its passage and
publication.
PASSID AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Yelm on the 24th day
of October, 1990 by the following votes:
Ayes: 5
Noes: o
Absent: 0
yor Robert A. Sand
ATTEST:
She ly A. B ger, Ci y Cl k
Cou ci er Kathryn M. Wolf
lJr~s~ O~.er~~~
Councilm~nber Leonard A. Lawton
Pi1BLISHED IN THE NISQUALLY VALLEY NEWS: Thursday, November 1, 1990
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Counci].m~nber Mart M. Parsons