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King County Plans to Limit Size of Rural Commercial Buildings

SEATTLE-King County council members are drawing criticism for considering a revision to the county's comprehensive plan that would limit the size of non-residential buildings to 20,000 sf in rural areas.

By Ingrid Ricks | Updated on November 14, 2000

SEATTLE-More than 100 citizens showed up at a King County Council meeting Monday to protest revisions to the county’s comprehensive plan that would limit the size of non-residential buildings in rural areas to 20,000 sf.

King County Executive Ron Sims’ proposed revisions to the county’s 1994 Comprehensive Plan, which will guide every land-use and government management decision during the coming six years, is intended to protect rural areas. But protestors say that the new provisions will limit their ability to construct adequately sized churches and private schools and is discriminating because it doesn’t apply to public schools. The proposed revisions would also stop large-scale commercial developments such as shopping centers in an effort to meet the sprawl-stopping agenda Sims has set for the county.

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