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ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION
ISSUANCE OF A DETERMINATION OF NON -SIGNIFICANCE (DNS)
POSTED TO NOTIFY INTERESTED PERSONS OF AN ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION
PROJECT NAME: Highlands Land Use & Zoning Package
PROJECT NUMBER: LUA06-128, ECF
LOCATION: Highlands Subarea located both north and south of NE Sunset Boulevard between
Edmonds Ave NE and Monroe Ave NE
DESCRIPTION: This non-project action includes four different actions related to the zoning and land use plans for
the Highlands Subarea:
1. Comprehensive Plan Text Amendments that remove R-10 as an implementing zone of the CV land use designation and
replace it with R-14, remove strategy 319.3, a few non-substantive “clean-up” changes.
2. Zoning Code Text Amendments including: amending R-14 to be an implementing zone of the CV land use designation,
amend the uses allowed in the CV zone, amending notes for the zoning use table, amending the development regulations
for the R-14 zone, amending the development regulations for the CV zone, removing the Center Village Bonus Dis trict,
enacting design regulations for all parcels in a Center Village Land Use designation, amending the parking requirements,
amending the criteria for R-14 bonus, revising the name of the Urban Center Design Review Packet, and revising
definitions.
3. Comprehensive Plan Map amendments that move the RMD area north of NE 16th Streetto the CV land use designation;
Move the parcels fronting Harrington Ave NE between NE 7th Street and NE 9th Street, and the parcels south of NE 12th
Street and east of Monroe Avenue NE to RMF land use designation. Please see attached maps.
4. Zoning Map amendments that place most of the R-10 property north of NE 12th Street, a collection of parcels in the
vicinity of Glenwood Ave NE and west of Harrington Avenue NE, north of Sunset Blvd in R-14; That places the parcels
fronting Harrington Ave NE between NE 7th Street and NE 9th Street and the parcels west of Kirkland Ave NE between
NE 13th Street and NE 16th Street in the RMF zone; that places the Renton Housing Authority’s Houser Terrace and
Evergreen Terrace properties, the Sir Cedric Condominiums, a row of parcels near Glenwood and NE 9th Street, and row
of parcels with frontage on Edmonds Ave NE between NE Sunset Blvd and NE 12th Street, a row of parcels fronting NE
12th Street between Harrington Ave NE and Edmonds Ave NE, the Renton Housing Authority’s Sunset Terrace property,
and a collection of parcels southeast of the intersection of NE 12th Street and Harrington Ave NE in the CV zone. Please
see attached maps.
THE CITY OF RENTON ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW COMMITTEE (ERC) HAS DETERMINED THAT
THE PROPOSED ACTION DOES NOT HAVE A SIGNIFICANT ADVERSE IMPACT ON THE
ENVIRONMENT.
Appeals of the environmental determination must be filed in writing on or before 5:00 PM on November 27, 2006.
Appeals must be filed in writing together with the required $75.00 application fee with: Hearing Examiner, City of
Renton, 1055 South Grady Way, Renton, WA 98055. Appeals to the Examiner are governed by City of Renton
Municipal Code Section 4-8-110.B. Additional information regarding the appeal process may be obtained from the
Renton City Clerk’s Office, (425) 430-6510.
IF THE ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINATION IS APPEALED, A PUBLIC HEARING WILL BE SET AND
ALL PARTIES NOTIFIED.