HomeMy WebLinkAbout2831 RESOLUTION NO. 2831
A RESOLUTION denying the appeal of a SEPA determination on
Non-significance (PL01-0028) regarding a proposed amendment to
the City's development standards to reduce the required number of
parking spaces in the food store, (Retail), markets, and supermarkets
land use category
WHEREAS, the City Council makes the following findings:
At the request of Albertson's Inc., the City implemented a non-project zoning
code text amendment that would, if approved, amend Figure 670(b)in Bremerton
Municipal Code Chapter 21.02 to reduced the parking requirements for the "Food Store
(retail), Markets, and Supermarkets" land use category from one parking space for each
200 square feet of building gross floor area, to one space for every 250 square feet of
building floor area ('Text Amendment").
On Apdl 23, 2001 the environmental official issued a Declaration of Non-
Significance (DNS) on the Text Amendment. The terms of the DNS are incorporated by
reference.
The appellant, Eldorado Hills, Inc filed a notice of appeal dated June 6, 2001,
which is hereby made a part of the record.
The City stipulated the appeal was timely filed.
A public headng was held on the appeal on July 25, 2001. A. record of those
testifying at the public headng is in the possession of the City Clerk.
The Appellant challenged the DNS on the grounds that the environmental review
of the Text Amendment should have considered the environmental impacts of a specific
project that is currently pending before the City. That project is known as the
Albertson's Project.
The Albertson's Project is undergoing separate environmental review.
The Text Amendment is a legislative action that would apply to all future
development in the City that involved a use within the affected use category.
The environmental officer determined that the Text Amendment was of Citywide
significance and environmental review could be effectively accomplished by conducting
environmental review at the time a project application was submitted for a project that
would be impacted by the text amendment; and
WHEREAS, based upon the above findings the Council makes the following
conclusions:
The decision of the SEPA officer is to be given substantial weight.
The proposed text amendment is not a phase of the Albertson's project, but is an
amendment of citywide application.
The Appellant has failed to carry his burden of proof that the decision of the
environmental officer was in error. Now, therefore, based upon the above findings and
conclusions,
BE IT RESOLVED By THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BREMERTON THAT
The appeal of the environmental officer's decision on Project PL01-0028 is
hereby DENIED.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton this 8th day of August,
2001.
-'~OHN I_A~, Coun(~il President