Chapter 16.24
IMPROVEMENTS IN HAZARDOUS AREAS
Sections:
16.24.010 Building permit – Conditions.
16.24.020 Maintenance of files.
16.24.010 Building permit – Conditions.
In addition to the existing terms, conditions and requirements of the City’s building code or other City ordinances, any person making application for a building permit concerning the improvement of any property located within an area designated by the Building Official as being potentially hazardous by reason of subsurface mining, slide-prone soils, and/or flooding according to existing historical records, documents or studies on file with the City Building Department on this subject shall, as a condition for approval of the permit, provide the City with an executed “Covenant Not to Sue” on the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, re property located in areas of surface mining, Exhibit B, re property located in areas of flood hazard, and/or Exhibit C, re property located in areas of slide-prone soils, which exhibits are incorporated herein by reference, thereby evidencing the applicants’ examination and study of such historical documents for purpose of determining whether the proposed construction site is suitable for residential, commercial, or industrial construction together with the applicants’ covenant with the City of Issaquah:
A. To thereafter initiate no litigation against the City concerning any such defect of the construction site due to subsurface mining, flooding and/or unstable soils;
B. To bind successors in title; and
C. To record such documents with the County Auditor as a covenant running with the land. (Ord. 1471 § 1, 1981).
16.24.020 Maintenance of files.
The Building Official shall establish and maintain Building Department files with respect to areas subject to flooding and areas where subsurface mining has occurred, into which files shall be deposited all existing historical records, documents, and studies made available to the City or as established by City investigation relating to the subject. (Ord. 1471 § 2, 1981).