by GMVUAC Committee | Oct 13, 2020 | Major Issues, News
On March 22, 2022, the King County Dept. of Natural Resources--Solid Waste Division issued a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) on its Cedar Hills Regional Landfill 2020 Site Development Plan and Facilities Relocation. The FEIS includes changes to the September 2020 Draft EIS (DEIS) based on new information learned, and comments received, as well as responses to comments submitted on the draft EIS. As part of State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA) requirements, the Final EIS contains a Responsiveness Summary (Appendix M), which provides the public with responses from the Solid Waste Division to all the questions and comments that were received during the public comment period for the Draft EIS. Please visit the project website to review the FEIS documents.
by GMVUAC Committee | Feb 25, 2022 | Major Issues, News
On February 25, 2022, the Area Council, through its Joint Transportation Initiative (JTI), submitted Comments on the Puget Sound Regional Council's draft 2022 Regional Transportion Plan (RTP) Update. JTI led a team of King County Rural Area UACs/UAAs/Organizations (EPCA, FofSV, GRC, GV/LHA, HHA, SCAR, UBCUAC) to review the draft RTP and prepare detailed comments.
by GMVUAC Committee | Jan 24, 2018 | Major Issues
by GMVUAC Committee | May 18, 2021 | Major Issues
The Countywide Planning Policies (CPPs) provide a countywide vision and serve as the guiding principles and policies for all Comprehensive Planning in King County (County, City, and Special-Purpose District), as well as County and City Zoning Codes. On March 10, 2021, members of Rural Area UACs and UAAs submitted joint detailed comments on a matrix showing existing CPP policies with proposed changes and rationale for same (e.g., Policy Matrix) released by the KECO. Subsequently a Principle/Policy Mapping Table was submitted to provide correlation between a set of Rural Area principles and policy comments. On March 24 King County Executive Staff held a virtual meeting with the Rural Area joint team to discuss and understand all its submitted comments. On April 6, 2021, the Public Review Draft (PRD) was released with a 30-day comment period to May 5, 2021. The Area Council again led a team of Rural Area UACs and UAAs in a complete review and preparation of detailed comments. On May 4 a final set of detailed comments were submitted to King County. For all Comment submittals by the Joint Rural Area UAC/UAA Team, please see the Letters page under the Correspondence drop-down menu.
