2017-2037 Comp Plan Update Enabling Ordinance with Exhibit A

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Filed for Record 04/16/2009 04:48:53 PM - Kittitas County, WA Auditor - 200904160090 Page 100 of 118 housing is available, being produced in the area and/or required to meet anticipated demand. Monitoring shall, at a minimum, address the following elements: a) MPR employee demographic information; b) land use, population and housing information (population and housing projections, zoned land available for housing, recent sales/rentals, housing vacancy rates, housing cost; c) number of housing units in the development pipeline (approved but unbuilt, approved preliminary plats, vested applications, etc.). The participants shall establish benchmarks to help identify changes attributable to MPR employment, and the thresholds that will trigger housing actions identified in these Conditions. Monitoring shall commence with approval of the first site development plan for the MPR, and shall proceed in yearly increments through Year 10 (or approximately 2,400 units, 500 hotel rooms, 36 holes of golf, and 150,000 sf of commercial use) after which time a revised schedule will be adopted. Housing monitoring reports shall be prepared semi-annually, or at some other frequency acceptable to the participants, to document housing supply and demand. Reports will be made available to the public. C-60 Housing Production. To the extent that such housing is not produced in a timely manner by private housing developers, and using the tools identified in Condition No. C-61, Trendwest shall directly provide, as necessary, the amount, type and cost of housing necessary to mitigate direct impacts associated with MPR operations and construction employment. If the supply of new housing, as identified in the monitoring program, lags behind anticipated need -- as identified in the Final EIS, or in future adjustments of the data in the EIS -- then the applicant shall develop, directly or through joint venture, or will cause to be developed, sufficient housing to meet the anticipated need. This housing may be provided on-site or off-site, as permitted by Kittitas County Comprehensive Plan policies. C-61 The applicant shall prepare and implement a program providing incentives designed to facilitate the planning, financing and development of housing to meet needs created by the MPR. The program shall be developed with input from the county and nearby cities, and shall be submitted to Kittitas County concurrent with submittal of an initial application for development of the MPR. The housing program shall consider and propose one or more of the following elements, as necessary to meet demand: (a) low interest loans to employees (subject to credit and employment criteria), guarantees of leases for an agreed-upon percentage of multi -family units built by local developers, and land subordination for construction loans obtained by local builders; (b) financial and other support for ongoing planning in local jurisdictions to encourage sufficient, well-planned and designed housing, including support for design guidelines for new housing that is consistent with local character. Suncadia MPR Conditions of Approval Page 32 December 2, 2008