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2023 Docket Enabling Ordinance December 19, 2023 <br />Page 172 <br /> <br /> <br />b. No increase or decrease in fair market value due to the project, except <br />physical deterioration, is to be considered in the valuation of the property. <br />c. Appraisals are not to give consideration nor include any allowance for <br />relocation assistance benefits. <br />3. Appraisal reviews will be undertaken by the county engineer and a recommendation <br />made as to just compensation. The owner is not to be left with an uneconomic remnant <br />which Kittitas County does not make an offer to acquire. (Res. RD-40-76 (part), 1976). <br /> <br />12.11.01.040 Just compensation for property - Establishment procedure. <br />1. The appraisal review and just compensation recommendation shall be transmitted to the <br />board of county commissioners, and the chairman, upon review of the recommendation <br />and concurrence therein by the board, shall approve same and execute a letter to the <br />owner setting forth the amount of just compensation, a summary of the basis for the <br />amount of just compensation, and where appropriate, the just compensation for real <br />property to be acquired, and damages are to be stated separately. <br />2. If the board, upon its review, finds it cannot concur in the recommended just <br />compensation, the appraisal review shall be returned, with reasons therefore, to the <br />person making the appraisal review, who shall again review the appraisal together with <br />the reasons for non-concurrence, take appropriate action as to the recommended just <br />compensation and forward same to the board for its disposition. (Res. RD-40-76 (part), <br />1976). <br /> <br />12.11.01.050 Purchase - Additional requirements - Unsuccessful negotiation. <br />Upon establishment of just compensation for all parcels that are to be purchased on any one project or complete segment thereof, the county engineer shall: <br />1. Mail, by certified return receipt, all of the letters of just compensation to all parties <br />having a known interest in each parcel; <br />2. Arrange to acquire the parcels by negotiation in an expeditious manner provided a <br />reasonable settlement can be negotiated. There must be no action taken to advance <br />condemnation, defer negotiations or condemnation or take any other action coercive in <br />nature in order to compel an agreement on the price to be paid for the parcel; <br />3. Provide for relocation assistance when same is required due to displacement of persons, <br />businesses or farms; <br />4. Complete the acquisition making certain that: <br />a. An equal interest is acquired in all buildings etc. located upon the real <br />property acquired. <br />b. All recording fees, transfer taxes, etc., penalty costs for prepayment of a pre- <br />existing mortgage and the pro rata share of real property taxes paid <br />subsequent to vesting title in Kittitas County, are paid by Kittitas County.