Ordinance 3202-10 - Laserfiche WebLink

Plan,and coordinated with Snohomish County,the Marshland Flood Control District,the Coordinated Diking Council,Natural Resources Conservation Service,affected utilities,BNSF, and property owners." Ed Husmann,President, Snohomish County Farm Bureau, 13420 339th Ave SE, Sultan,WA 98294 Comment#2: Of the 1065.3 acres total Marshlands acreage; a large portion are designated agricultural lands. Both the City of Everett and Snohomish County are obliged by the Growth Management Act to de.Fignate and protect agricultural lands. See, RCW 39.70A.030(2), RCW 39.70A.020(8), RCW 39.70A.060, RCW 39.70A.070(1). Hence this plan to destroy designated agricultural land is most clearly violative of the GMA. City of Everett Response: Both Snohomish County and the City have a wide variety of legal mandates that have to be balanced in land use regulations,including,but not limited to the following:. • RCW 39.70A.020(8)(referenced in the comment)also requires that fisheries industries be maintained and enhanced. • • RCW 36.70A.060(4)states that"Forest land and agricultural land located within urban growth areas shall not be designated by a county or city as forest land or agricultural land of long-term commercial significance under RCW 36.70A.170 unless the city or county has enacted a program authorizing transfer or purchase of development rights." WAC 365-190-050(1)states that"Counties and Cities must have a program for the transfer or purchase of development rights prior to designating agricultural resource lands in urban growth areas."The City has not adopted such a program for agricultural lands, so is precluded from designating the portion of the Subarea in the urban growth area for commercial agriculture of long-term significance. • WAC 365-196-730 Federal authorities. (1) Counties and cities drafting or amending comprehensive plans and development regulations under the act should consider the effects of federal authority over land or resource use within the planning area,including: (a)Treaties with Native Americans; (c)Federal statutes or regulations imposing national standards; (d)Federal permit programs and plans; (2)Examples of such federal standards,permit programs and plans are: (g)Recovery plans and the prohibition on taking list species under the Endangered Species Act; • WAC 173-26-186 Governing principles of the guidelines (Shoreline Master Program Guidelines). • 173-26-201. Comprehensive process to prepare or amend shoreline master programs. 4