Executive/Council Action Form (ECAF)
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Ordinance 21-106, relating to growth management; amending development regulations in chapters 30.24 and 30.41 SCC pertaining to roads and access
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DEPARTMENT: Planning and Development Services
ORIGINATOR: Amber Piona, Planner
EXECUTIVE RECOMMENDATION: Approve-Ken Klein
PURPOSE: Adopt code amendments amending the development regulations pertaining to roads and access to: promote access for emergency fire responders and apparatus; remove the need for variance requests to develop private road networks within proposed subdivisions or short subdivisions in urban areas; allow the county engineer to approve private road access to individual dwelling units within a unit lot subdivision; and promote flexibility for the provision of pedestrian facilities within rural cluster and subdivision development.
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* The Growth Management Act requires the County to both encourage efficient transportation systems that are coordinated with the County's comprehensive plan and to ensure that permits are processed in a timely and fair manner.
* Existing regulations allow for the inclusion of a pedestrian facility on one side of a drive aisle or shared court to be included as part of the minimum 20-foot driving surface width necessary to be classified as a fire lane. County fire officials have encountered objects placed in or on pedestrian facilities such as sidewalks that block or impede fire access. These objects often include garbage cans and portable basketball hoops which impede access for fire vehicles when the sidewalk width is included in the fire lane width. Consistent with the EDDS, he proposed amendment will prohibit pedestrian facilities being used to meet the minimum driving surface width to qualify as a fire lane.
* Existing code language in SCC 30.24.050 states access to a subdivision, short subdivision, binding site plan development, or SFDU in urban areas sh...
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