Ordinance 06-010 Adopting Comprehensive Plan and Amending SVMC 10.30CiTY OF SPOKANE, VALLEY
SPOKANE. COUNTY, WASHINGTON
ORDINANCE NO. 06-010
AN ORDINANCE OF T14E CiTY OF SPOKANE VALLEY, WASHINGTON, ADOPTING T14E
CiTY OF SPOKA VE VALLEY CONUIREHENSIVE PLAN AND APMENDING SVMC 10.30.010.
WHEREAS, RCW 36.70.040 requires and provides the authority to adopt a comprehensive plan
consistent with the provisions of RCW 36.70A et seq, after incorporation of a new City; and
WHERE AS, adoption Cif the City of Spokane Valley's Comprehensive Plan must be processed in
compliance with the requirements of the State Environmental Policy Act ( SEPA) as set: forth in RCW
43.2 l C el seq.; and
WHEREAS, the Growth management Act (GMA) requires the Comprehensive Plan to be
consistent with the Countywide Planning Policies and coordinated with neighboring _jurisdictions as set
forth in RCW 36.70A.210; and
WHEREAS, the GMA requires the adoption of ordinances that protect critical areas, including
aquifer recharge areas, wetlands, fish and wildlife habitat conservation areas, frequently flooded areas and
geologically hazardous areas pursuant to RCW 36.70A.170, and WAC 365 - 195 -110; and
WHEREAS, the GMA states that the comprehensive plan shall contain elements that address
land use, transportation, housing, capital facilities, utilities, economic development, parks and recreation,
(RCW 36.70A.070), and also provides for the inclusion of optional elements ( RCW 36.70A.080); and
WHEREAS, the GMA contains goals that are intended to guide the development and adoption of
comprehensive plans, which relate to urban growth, reduced sprawl, transportation, housing, economic
development, property rights, permits, natural resources industries, open space and recreation,
environment, citizen participation and coordination; public facilities and services, historic preservation
(RCW 36.70A.020), and shorelines (RCW 36.70A.480); and
WHEREAS, the comprehensive plan is required to demonstrate and uphold the concepts of
internal consistency (WAC 365 -195 -500), conformity (RCW 36.70A.120), and eoneun (WAC 365-
195 -510); and
WHEREAS, the GMA requires the City of Spokane Valley to propose an Urban Growth Area
(UGA) which is sufficient to accommodate allocations for future population growth, and contains fixture
growth to urban areas where adequate public facilities and services exist or can be provided in an efficient
manner ( RCW 36.70A. 110); and
WHEREAS, the GMA requires a process of early and continuous citizen participation for
creating both the comprehensive plan and the supporting development regulations (RCW 36.70A.140);
and
WHEREAS; SVMC 2.55.050 Planning Commission, Duties and Responsibilities requires the
Planning Commission to hold public hearings required to be held in the course of adoption or amendment
to the comprehensive plan; and
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WHEREAS, subsequent to the development of the initial Comprehensive Plan for the City of
Spokane Valley a number of circumstances have changed, specifically:
1. The City of Spokane Valley and the County of Spokane are in the process of
developing new population projections and population capacity numbers as part of the five -year review
by Spokane County.
2. Significant Urban Growth Areas outside of the limits of the City of Spokane
Valley have been approved by Spokane County.
3. Urban Growth Areas in excess of 2000 acres are currently being proposed in
areas north, south and east of the city of Spokane Valley; and
WHEREAS. these changes will likely result in a need for the establishment of future growth
areas and revisions to the Comprehensive Plan's population projections, capacity analysis and capital
facilities plans; and
WHEREAS, these changes are intended to be incorporated into the Comprehensive Plan as part
of the annual review to be conducted over the twelve months following the adoption of this plan; and
WHEREAS, the adoption of this Comprehensive Plan is necessary to protect the health, safety,
and welfare of the general public and the environment.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City of Spokane Valley ordains as follows:
SECTION 1 . Adop tion of Findings of Fact. The City of Spokane Valley finds that all GMA
prerequisites for the adoption of the City's Comprehensive Plan have been met, and adopt the following:
FINDINGS OF FACT
I. Mandate to Plan under GMA The City of Spokane Valley is a City that falls under the
full mandates of the GMA as of the date of its incorporation on March 31, 2003.
2. Compliance with SEPA :
a. A Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement was issued on May 18,
2005, and a Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement was issued on November 4, 2005.
b. The Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) integrates the
environmental analysis required by the SEPA with the draft Comprehensive Plan, pursuant to
authorization in the SEPA rules (WAC 197 -II -210, 220, 228, 230, 232 and 235). This document
supplemented the Draft and Final SrTSs prepared by Spokane County for the County's Draft Plan 2000,
published in March 2000 and \November 2000 respectively.
C. The City of Spokane Valley has made a Determination of Significance in regard
to the action of adopting a new Comprehensive Plan in accordance with SEPA requirements.
d. The City of Spokane Valley has considered alternatives and mitigated the
significant. identified impacts throughout the plan.
C. The City of Spokane Valley's deliberations on the new Comprehensive Plan's
land use map reflect an integrated SiIPA/GMA strategy in which environmental information has been
included in each chapter in the development of the new Comprehensive Plan. The phased and integrated
environmental review has been completed consistent with the WAC 197-11-060(5) (b) and WAC 197 -11-
210.
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I Consistency with County -Wide Planning Policies:
a. The GMA Steering Committee of Elected Officials convened in 1993 to prepare
Countywide Planning Policies as a regional framework for comprehensive planning.
b. An analysis and review of applicable Countywide Planning Policies is contained
in each chapter of this plan.
C. The City Council of the City of Spokane Valley finds that the new
Comprehensive Plan is consistent with the Countywide Planning Policies.
4. Consideration of Critical Areas and Resource Lands The City of Spokane Valley has
adopted ordinances that protect critical areas, including wetlands, fish and wildlife habitat conservation
areas, frequently flooded areas and geologically hazardous areas pursuant to RCW 36.70A.170; and
further that these ordinances have been reviewed as a part of the development of this Comprehensive Plan
as is discussed in Chapter 8 Nowral Environment. Areas with a critical recharging effect on aquifers for
potable water are discussed in Chapter 8 Naiurol Environment. Specific areas have been designated, and
an ordinance protecting the same is currently being reviewed by the City of Spokane Valley.
5. Required and Optional Elements of the Comprehensive Plan: The City of Spokane
Valley has included all elements required by GMA. The City has further included optional areas of
neighborhoods and natural environment. The plan is consistent with the standards and provisions of
GMA as is specifically discussed in each chapter.
6. Internal Consistence, Conforming: The Comprehensive Plan is internally consistent; the
relationship to other Comprehensive Plan Chapters is specifically addressed in section 2.3 of the Land
Use Chapter as well as in other portions of the plan. The Transportation Chapter and Capital Facilities
Chapter require that new development be served with adequate facilities and services at the time of
development or within a specified time frame, and further calls for the implementation of a concurrency
management system for transportation, water and sewer facilities. Growth, existing and future levels of
service, concurrency and financing are all considerations discussed within the Plan.
7. Urban Growth Areas The City of Spokane Valley, in the development of this
Comprehensive Plan, anticipated a population allocation that could be accommodated within existing city
limits. As a result, the City of Spokane Valley did not designate specific extraterritorial City of Spokane
Valley UGA areas at this time. This issue is the subject of ongoing analysis, as is discussed above, and is
anticipated to be reviewed in the first annual update following the adoption of this Comprehensive Plan.
8. Land Use Plan `lap the Comprehensive Plan includes a detailed map identifying all
categories of land use within the City of Spokane Valley.
9. Citizen Participation:
a. The City of Spokane Valley adopted the Comprehensive Plan Public Participation
Program in 2003. This guideline identified a program for citizen participation, including a visioning
process, the role of the Planning Commission, a citizen survey, public meetings, public hearings, public
notice, written comments, communications programs and information services, involvement of interest
groups, community workshops, press releases and public service announcements and other devices
designed to enhance public participation. implementation of this program resulted in early and
continuous opportunities to participate. in the development of the Plan; and
b. The planning process included a series of workshops with the City Council and
Planning Commission, joint meetings with the same bodies, and community workshops; and
C. The City of Spokane Valley Planning Commission considered all provisions of
the draft comprehensive plan and held public hearings considering the same on June 16, 2005, June 22,
2005, June 23, 2005, .fuly 14, 2005, September 8, 2005, and deliberated in open public meetings on the
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July 20, 2005, July 21, 2005, July 27, 2005, July 28, 2005, August. 3, 2005, August 4, 2005, August 10,
2005, August 11, 2005, August 17, 2005, August 18, 2005, August 24, 2005, August 25, 2005, August
31, 2005, September 1, 2005, September 7, 2005, September 15, 2005; and
d. On October 4, 2005, The City of Spokane Valley Planning Commission
submitted its recommended Comprehensive Plan to the City Council of the City of Spokane Valley; and
e. The City of Spokane Valley City Council considered all provisions of the
proposed Comprehensive Plan and held public hearings on the plan recommended by the Planning
Commission on October 18, 2005, October 25, 2005, November 14, 2005, November 28, 2005,
December 12, 2005, February 7, 2006, March 9, 2006 and April 11, 2006. The City Council deliberated
in open public meetings on October 18, 2005, October 25, 2005, November I, 2005, November 14, 2005,
November 15, 2005, Niovernber 28, 2005, December 12, 2005, January 12, 2006, .January 17, 2006,
January 31, 2006, February 7, 2006, February 9, 2006, February 21, 2006, February 23 2006, March 7,
2006, March 9 2006, March 21, 2006, March 23, 2006, April 4, 2006; and
f. During the course of deliberation the City Council, by motion or by consensus,
made specific changes to the Comprehensive Plan that had been recommended by the Planning
Commission; and
g. Final public hearings on all changes made to the Planning Commission
recommendations were held on April 11 and 25, 2006; the Council considered the ordinance adopting the
Comprehensive Plan for first reading on April 18, 2006, with public comment allowed and in conjunction
with a public hearing held the second reading on April 25, 2006, prior to final passage; and
h. The City Council finds that the public participation constituted early and
continuous public participation in the development and amendment of the comprehensive plan as required
by RCW 36.70A.140.
10. Review by Off=ice of Community 'Trade and Economic Development: The proposed
Comprehensive Plan was submitted to CTED on May 18, 2005. Comments from CTED have been
reviewed by staff and changes, where necesswy have been incorporated into the proposed comprehensive
plan.
SECTION 2 fLej iealing , Interim Comprehensive Plan and Adopting Comprehensive Plan,
SVMC 10.30.010 is hereby amended as follows:
The City of Spokane Valley Comprehensive Plan, Capital Facilities Plan and maps which are attached
hereto and by this reference incorporated herein are hereby adopted.
SVMC 10.30.020 is hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. Severability If any section, sentence, clause or phrase of this Ordinance should
be held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent ,jurisdiction, such invalidity or
unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of any other section, clause or phrase of
this Ordinance.
SECTION 4 . Effective Date This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect five (5) days after
publication of the Ordinance, or a summary thereof, occurs in the official newspaper of the City as
provided by law.
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Passed by the City Council the ,2 of April , 2006.
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Mayor, Diana Wilhite
ATTEs'r:
ity Clerk, Christine Bainbridge
Approved as to f=orm:
Office o he City Att icy
Date Published: 5 S-
Effective Date: - — k
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