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King County buys development rights on tract, saving forest
Thursday, July 25, 2002
King County officials announced an agreement yesterday to keep the 443-acre Ames Lake Forest near Carnation from being turned into a residential development through the transfer of development rights with The Port Blakely Cos.
Under the agreement, King County paid $2.8 million for 88 residential development rights that it can sell to other land owners for use in Seattle's Denny Triangle Neighborhood or urban areas of unincorporated King County.
Port Blakely retains ownership of the tract and can log the land as a "working forest," instead of building 70 residences and a golf course as it had planned.
"It was our goal not to encourage or allow sprawl to continue," County Executive Ron Sims said.
The county's Transfer of Development Rights Program -- started as a pilot project in 1998 and converted to a permanent program last September -- allows landowners to buy and sell residential development rights from land that provides a public benefit, such as farm, forest, open space or habitat for threatened or endangered species. The development rights can be used to build additional houses on other land in more appropriate areas.
Port Blakely has owned the land since 1888 and has logged it three times, said Jim Warjone, Port Blakely president.
P-I reporter Margaret Taus can be reached at 206-448-8027 or margarettaus@seattlepi.com
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