Ord 00-365
ORDINANCE NO. 00-365
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
FEDERAL WAY, WASHINGTON, AMENDING THE
FEDERAL WAY CITY CODE, DESIGNATING VEHICLE
ROUTES, REQUIRING RIGHT-OF-WAY USE PERMITS FOR
DELIVERIES, AND ADOPTING ENVIRONMENT ALPOLICIES
AS THE BASIS FOR THE EXERCISE OF MITIGATION
AUTHORITY UNDER THE STATE ENVIRONMENTAL
POLICY ACT (Amending Ordinance Nos. 90-40, 91-103,91-109,
91-114,92-130,92-136,92-137,92-140,93-184,93-202, and 95-
246).
WHEREAS, the Federal Way City Code ("FWCC") contains provisions granting
the Public Works Director the authority to regulate the use of public highways, streets and
thoroughfares by trucks and other vehicles; and
WHEREAS, in order to minimize intrusion of truck traffic through residential areas
in Federal Way, the FWCC designates vehicle routes for local deliveries by vehicles rated in
excess of 30,000 pounds gross weight; and
WHEREAS, the vehicle routes designated in the FWCC do not fully provide for
truck access within areas annexed to the City since 1991; and
WHEREAS, the City Council wishes to amend the FWCC to designate additional
vehicle routes, to provide for permitting and environmental review of the concentrated use of City
rights-of-way by truck or other heavy vehicles; and
WHEREAS, the matter was brought to the Land Use and Transportation Committee
of the City Council on December 6, 1999 and January 10, 2000, and the Committee evaluated
several different alternatives for new vehicle routes; and
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WHEREAS, this ordinance was considered by the full City Council at its regular City
Council meeting on February 15, 2000, at which the City Council approved an amendment to
the ordinance to eliminate Section 4 (requiring covering of truck loads) and moved the ordinance
to a second reading on March 7, 2000; and
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FEDERAL WAY,
WASHINGTON, DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Amendment. Section 15-183 of the Federal Way City Code is hereby
amended as follows:
Sec. 15-183. Designated vehicle routes.
(a)
The public works director shall erect, or cause to be erected and maintained, signs
desigIÌating the following public highway, streets and thoroughfares within the city
as vehicle routes for all vehicles rated in excess of 30,000 pounds gross weight
(gw) as defined by RCW 46.16.111, which is adopted by this reference, including
all future amendments or additions thereto:
(I) State Route 5, Interstate Highway 5;
(2) State Route 18, State Route 99 to State Route 5;
(3) State Route 99, Pacific Highway South;
(4) State Route 161, Enchanted Parkway;
(5) State Route 509, Dash Point Road;
(6) South 320th St., State Route 99 to State Route 5;
(7) 16th Avenue So., State Route 99 to State Route 18,;",
(8) Milton Road So., State Route 161 to S 369th St.;
(9) South 356th St" State Route 99 to State Route 161.
(b)
All other streets within the limits of the city shall be restricted to allow only
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vehicles rated under 30,000 pounds gross weight, except as provided for in section
15-184.
Section 2. Amendment. Section 15-184 of the Federal Way City Code is hereby
amended as follows:
Sec. 15-184. Local deliveries.
(b)
(a)
Vehicles rated in excess of 30,000 pounds gross weight, as defined in RCW
46.16.111, are restricted to the designated truck routes noted in section 15-183,
except a person or entity operating or employing (whether directly or by contract)
such vehicles is not subject to the restriction when making less than ten deliveries
per day to the same destination. Deliveries are defined, for the purposes of this
section, as all local deliveries with destinations or origins within the city, and all
deliveries which pass through the city between origin and destination. A person
or entity operating or employing such vehicles for ten or more local deliveries per
day shall also be subject to those route restrictions, conditions, or designations
promulgated by the public works director pursuant to this division.
A person or entity operating or employing (either directly or by contract) vehicles
rated in excess of 30,000 pounds gross weight, as defined by RCW 46.16.111, to
make more than seventy-two (72) deliveries per day or more than 3,000 trips
within a 3-month period to the same destination, shall obtain a right-of-way use
permit (limited or extended, as applicable) pursuant to FWCC Chapter 13, and be
subject to those route restrictions and designations, and other conditions or
restrictions promulgated by the public works director as conditions of that permit
or as otherwise provided in this division.
Section 3. Amendment. Section 18-122 of the Federal Way City Code is hereby
amended as follows:
Sec. 18-122. State Environmental Policy Act policies.
(a)
(b)
The policies and goals set forth in this article are supplementary to those in the
existing authorization of the city.
The city designates and adopts by reference the policies in this section as the basis
for the city's exercise of authority under this article. The city shall use all
practicable means, consistent with other essential considerations of state policy, to
improve and coordinate plans, functions, programs, and resources to the end that
the state and its citizens may:
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(d)
(7)
(c)
(1)
Fulfill the responsibilities of each generation as trustee of the environment
for succeeding generations;
(2)
Assure for all people of Washington safe, healthful, productive, and
aesthetically and culturally pleasing surroundings;
(3)
Attain the widest range of beneficial uses of the environment without
degradation, risk to health or safety or other undesirable and unintended
consequences;
(4)
Preserve important historic, cultural, and natural aspects of our national
heritage;
(5)
Maintain, wherever possible, an environment which supports diversity and
variety of individual choice;
(6)
Achieve a balance between population and resource use which will permit
high standards of living and a wide sharing of life's amenities; and
Enhance the quality of renewable resources and approach the maximum
attainable recycling of depletable resources.
The city recognizes that each person has a fundamental and inalienable right to a
healthful environment and that each person has a responsibility to contribute to the
preservation and enhancement of the environment.
The city adopts by reference the following city codes, ordinances, resolutions,
plans and policies as now exist or as may hereinafter be amended or suoerseded:
(1)
(2)
The Federal Way Comprehensive Plan;
The Federal Way City Code and documents adopted by reference therein,
including without limitation the following chapters:
a.
Zoning (Chapter 22) and the Official Zoning Map;
b.
Subdivisions(Chapter 20);
c.
Surface and Storm Water Managemept (Chapter 21);
d.
Shoreline Regulation and the Shoreline Management Master
Program (Chapter 18); and
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(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
(8)
(9)
(10)
(11)
(12)
(13)
(14)
(15)
(16)
(17)
(18)
(19)
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Methods to Mitigate Development Impacts (Chapter 19);
The Shoreline Management Guide Book (DOE);
The Washington State Flood Reduction Plan (1993 DCD);
Ordinances relating to Surface Water Runoff, Ordinance Number 90-3 I and
Surface Water Management, Ordinance Number 90-32;
The 199912000 Lakehaven Utility District Comprehensive Sewer System
Plan Update;
The 1999 Lakehaven Utility District Comprehensive Water System Plan
Update;
The Federal Way Comprehensive Parks, Recreation, and Open Space Plan;
The King County Fire Protection District Number 39 Long Range Plan;
The Federal Way School District Number 210 Capital Facilities Plan;
The Code of the King County Board of Health;
The Federal Way Solid Waste Management Plan;
The Federal Way Recycle Plan;
The Federal Way Transportation Improvement Plan;
The Federal Way Hazardous Waste Management Plan;
The Executive Proposed Basin Plan Hylebos Creek and Lower Puget
Sound, King County Surface Water Management, July 1991;
The Federal Way Private Utility Element;
The King County Countywide Planning Policies, to the extent currently
adopted by the Federal Way City Council, and as may be adopted
hereafter.
The 1992 King County Comprehensive Solid Waste Management Plan, as
it now exists or may hereafter be amended.
(20)
(21)
(22)
(23)
(24)
(25)
(26)
(27)
(28)
(29)
(30)
(31)
(32)
(33)
The Federal Way Comprehensive Surface Water Management Plan.
The Guide to Conducting Wetland Inventories (DOE);
Washington State Shoreline Management Act of 1971;
The Standard Specification for Construction of Trails (Forest Service
1984);
The Puget Sound Water Quality Management Plan;
The King County Division of Parks and Recreation Play Area Design and
Inspection Handbook;
The Sea- Tac International Airport Impact Mitigation Study, February 1997,
prepared by Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum, Inc., and Raytheon
Infrastructure Services, Inc., under a grant, from the state of Washington;
The Washington State Department of Transportation Pavement Guide,
February 1995;
The Highway Capacity Manual, Special Report 209, Transportation
Research Board, 1997;
The Institute of Transportation Engineers, Trip Generation, 5th Edition,
1991;
The 1998 King County Surface Water Design Manual;
The Storm Water Management Manual for the Puget Sound Basin,
Washington State Department of Ecology, February 1992;
The King County Storm Water Pollution Control Manual and Best
Management Practices; and
Planning documents not specifically listed above but referenced in the
environmental analysis of the city' s comprehensive plan.
Section 4. Severabilitv. The provisions of this ordinance are declared separate
and severable. The invalidity of any clause, sentence, paragraph, subdivision, section, or portion
of this ordinance or the invalidity of the application thereof to any person or circumstance, shall
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not affect the validity of the remainder of the ordinance, or the validity of its application to other
persons or circumstances.
Section 5. Ratification. Any act consistent with the authority and prior to the
effective date of this ordinance is hereby ratified and affirmed.
Section 6. Effective Date. This ordinance shall take effect and be in force five
(5) days from and after its passage and publication, as provided by law.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Federal Way this
7th
day of
Karch
,2000.
CITY OF FEDERAL WAY
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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CITY ATTORNEY, LONDI . LINDELL
FILED WITH THE CITY CLERK: 02/29/00
PASSED BY THE CITY COUNCIL: 03/07/00
PUBLISHED: 03/11/00
EFFECTIVE DATE: 03/16/00
ORDINANCE NO. 00-365
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