25.02.010 Authority and purpose.
Pursuant to the State Growth Management Act, RCW Chapter 36.70A, after the adoption of its comprehensive plan, the city of Kirkland is required by RCW 36.70A.070(6)(e) to ensure that road improvements or strategies to accommodate the impacts of development are provided concurrent with the development. Similarly, the city is bound by the planning goals of RCW 36.70A.020 to ensure that public facilities necessary to support development shall be adequate to serve the development at the time the development is available for occupancy and use without decreasing current service levels below locally established standards, referred to as “concurrency.”
This title furthers the goals, policies, implementation strategies, and objectives of the comprehensive plan.
The purpose of this title is to establish a concurrency management system to ensure that concurrency facilities needed to achieve level of service standards can be provided simultaneously to, or within a reasonable time after, occupancy or use. Concurrency facilities are roads, potable water, and sanitary sewer.
The concurrency management system provides the necessary regulatory mechanism for evaluating requests for development to ensure that adequate concurrency facilities are provided “concurrently” with development, as required by the Growth Management Act.
For water and sewer, the facilities must be in place at the time of development impact and for roads, the facilities must be in place within six years of the time of the development impact. Applicants having developments that would cause the level of service on concurrency facilities to decline below the city standards can have their developments approved by implementing measures that offset their impacts and would maintain the city’s standard for level of service. (Ord. 3830 § 1 (part), 2002: Ord. 3552 § 1 (part), 1997)