Development Standards | Transfer of Development Rights
i. Unincorporated King County land identified by the City council in an interlocal agreement with King County; or ii. Land identified by the City council in an interlocal agreement with another jurisdiction. c. For the purposes of this chapter, “undeveloped properties” are properties that have the potential to accommodate dwelling units and do not currently contain dwelling units. 2. To be eligible for the TDR program, all sending sites shall be certified by the City pursuant to SDC 21.06.070F., have intact development potential, and provide a defined public benefit. a. A sending site is deemed to have a defined public benefit if the site is: i. Open space adjacent to, or connected with, City park or open space lands; or ii. Wildlife habitat for threatened and/or endangered species listed by the federal government or the state of Washington; or iii. Located such that preservation will provide additional protection for sensitive subbasins or environmentally critical areas; or
b. A sending site is deemed to have intact development potential if the area proposed for conservation is: i. Of sufficient area to create at least one development right pursuant to SDC 21.06.070E.; and ii. Contiguous, except for division by public rights-of- way; and iii. The sending site’s development rights or development capacity is not exhausted through any of the following:
a) Existing development on the site; or
b) Agriculture, recreation, or open space easements; or
c) Conservation of environmentally sensitive areas and their buffers through means including, but not limited to, an open space easement or native growth easement; or
d) Alteration by a conservation easement or through any agreement.
3. Development rights acquired from eligible sending sites may be transferred to eligible receiving sites through the TDR transfer process. After completion of the conveyance of a sending site’s development rights, the property shall be maintained in a condition that is consistent with the criteria in this chapter under which the sending site was qualified by means of a TDR conservation easement.
iv. Farmland; or
v. Forestland.
Errata Revisions | November 17, 2022 Effective | January 1, 2022
378 | Title 21: Sammamish Development Code
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