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. • • 041111bi . y ORDINANCE NO. 2249-97 An Ordinance Amending Ordinance No. 2025-94, as Amended, Providing for the Annexation of Certain Property Located in the Lake Chaplain Watershed Area as a Municipal Purpose Annexation WHEREAS, the City of Everett annexed 1,920 plus acres of the Lake Chaplain watershed in 1982 with Ordinance No. 843-82, under the provisions of the State's municipal purpose annexation statute, RCW 35.13.180; and WHEREAS, in an effort to expand the City's Lake Chaplain watershed area, a second annexation adding another 1,180 plus acres of land to the Lake Chaplain watershed was carried out in 1994 through the adoption of Ordinance No. 2025-94; and WHEREAS, the City of Everett owns and manages the Lake Chaplain watershed property in the Sultan River basin for the purpose of providing a municipal water supply for the City of Everett and other areas in Snohomish County; and WHEREAS, Section 4 of Ordinance No. 2025-94 assigned a zoning classification to the property annexed of R-S (Suburban Residential) which was intended to be a holding zone pending the designation of a more appropriate zoning classification; and WHEREAS, the City has established a new zone classification and rezoned the Lake Chaplain area as the Watershed Resource Management Zone (WRM) to express the intended use and purpose for the area as a municipal watershed thereby removing the holding zone classification of R-S; Now, Therefore, The City of Everett Does Ordain: Section 1. Ordinance No. 2025-94, is amended by the addition of the following: Section 7: Municipal Purpose Annexation The Everett City Council concludes that the annexation of the property described herein is necessary for the protection of the City's water supply and, consequently, this is a municipal purpose annexation pursuant to RCW 35.18.180.